[OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Mon Oct 1 14:57:45 UTC 2012


Let me know how it goes... I think I have disk problems....


On 10/ 1/12 10:52 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:
> No I have not work on this during the weekend, but tomorrow I'll probably
> try with basic installation of OpenSolaris 134 and try with creating new
> BE!
>
> Regards Andrej
>
> P.S. I had no problems with seeing the disks...
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:
>
>> hmmmm.... mine is not even seeing the disks installed on the system....
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/28/12 01:15 PM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I also have no issues to boot liveDVD on my headless SF210 (LOM). Also had
>>> no issues to start net with DHCP and IPv6 autoconf., start ssh ....
>>> But the question remains how to install it on disk?
>>> I followed manuals on Oracle howto create mirrored rpool...
>>> - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E23824_01/html/821-1459/**diskssadd-2.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1459/diskssadd-2.html>
>>> -
>>> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E18752_01/html/821-1910/**
>>> migratingufsoverview.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/821-1910/migratingufsoverview.html>
>>> - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/**E19082-01/817-2271/ggtia/**index.html<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/ggtia/index.html>
>>> rsync-ed content of (liveDVD booted) / to prepared rpool/ROOT/Martux
>>> ....?!
>>> and got:
>>> ======snip======
>>> {0} ok boot
>>>
>>> SC Alert: Host System has Reset
>>> Probing system devices
>>> Probing memory
>>> Probing I/O buses
>>>
>>> Sun Fire V210, No Keyboard
>>> Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>> OpenBoot 4.18.10, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #OMITED.
>>> Ethernet address OMITED, Host ID: OMITED.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rebooting with command: boot
>>> Boot device: /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2/disk at 0,**0:a  File and args:
>>>
>>> Can't open boot_archive
>>> ======/snip============
>>>
>>> Now what?  :)
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Andrej
>>>
>>> BTW: I just noticed that I forgot to recreate boot_archive
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
>>> <shadowhunter at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>   I think my SB2500 has either an XVR-600 or XVR-1200, can't remember off
>>>> the
>>>> top of my head. Will find out tomorrow when I work on the host for the
>>>> first time in a while! :)
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
>>>>> <shadowhunter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I downloaded it yesterday - I *LOVE* working in a datacenter and being
>>>>>>
>>>>> on
>>>>> the backbone directly! I frequently hit 40Mbit download rates! Took
>>>>> less
>>>>> than 10 minutes!
>>>>>> I will be installing it over the weekend on my SB2500 Red, in case the
>>>>>> original DVD-ROM didn't work, I ordered a MSI DVD+/-RW drive from
>>>>>>
>>>>> Newegg,
>>>>> should get it next week.
>>>>> Hi Alex, this extra step indeed only required on the SB2500.
>>>>> And maybe it was only caused by my cheap JLDS (or what it was,
>>>>> manufacturer as reported by Joerg's cdrecord) DVD+R 4.7GB disks, with
>>>>> the cheap label "Kaufland".
>>>>> I had no other media anymore, will re-test the SB2500 Red and Silber
>>>>> (both behave identically) tomorrow, with other vendor's DVD's.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   There is a full gcc environment available, correct?
>>>>> I compiled /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and /usr/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc from
>>>>> consolidation oi-build.
>>>>> As I wrote yesterday somewhere, I was required to add an auto-applied
>>>>> patch that changes the ./configure command line to include
>>>>> --disable-multilib. Otherwise gcc doesn't compile on SPARC. However,
>>>>> so nice so good. But this cause OS/Net or Illumos to fail instantly.
>>>>> The solution is hidden in the special diffs that Sun used since
>>>>> Solaris 10. But at the first place I had believed, a distro like OI
>>>>> would years ago have included them And secondly I was under immense
>>>>> time pressure, so I didn't look where we can get these diffs (or if
>>>>> they are in the open at all). So I just kept it like that, for now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because, and here it comes: The LiveDVD does include /opt/onbld,
>>>>> /opt/dtbld and /opt/SUNWpro with Studio12.1 !
>>>>> So you can still compile a lot of software, even that which requires
>>>>> multilib support to be present in the compiler.
>>>>> And the most famous example of such a src tree is OS/Net Illumos. To
>>>>> build that customize illumos.sh to disable shadow compilation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   How large are the IPS
>>>>>> package repos so far, Martin? If I could get a howto on building
>>>>>>
>>>>> packages
>>>>> for IPS, I might be willing to help compile some software and publish
>>>>> it. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm, thanks Alex.What shall I respond to this?
>>>>>
>>>>> #0.) The difficulty lies not in compiling the code.
>>>>> As you  see all the consolidations are already built, and copied over
>>>>> to the 11GB LiveDVD (clofi gzip-6 compressed less than 4GB).
>>>>> The problemm is also not building a repo when skipping dependency
>>>>> resolution.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> #1.) As I wrote yesterday, the best IPS repo documentation available
>>>>> is on openindiana.org.
>>>>> Go there! And save a copy before they may shut down the servers or
>>>>> whatever.
>>>>> It is excellent inside information that is available there.
>>>>> Eric Lowe has a substantial share in that work!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Your help is really appreciated.
>>>>> And we SPARC users can and will somehow work as a community.
>>>>> For that reason yesterday's critical questions, that I sent.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most importantly: For what do we need IPS?
>>>>> SVR4 pkgadd can offer most the IPS's functionality that users really
>>>>> demand (network-install and automatic fetching of deps).
>>>>> To get IPS running has a price.
>>>>> And it doesn't matter how large my test repo is.
>>>>> I created several repos, and the largest has 2 GB.
>>>>> But with the normal procedure of one would normally want to pkgsend
>>>>> new packages into it, you could not even do the most minimalistic
>>>>> stuff.
>>>>> I'm writing this from abroad.
>>>>> To post details I need to be at home.
>>>>> But my proposal was: Why not simply ditching IPS.
>>>>> I mean, if OI has no leader anymore, the main reason no longer exists
>>>>> for which I had wanted to start with IPS at all, after I hesitated for
>>>>> 2 years.
>>>>> Isn't it pure irony?? After 2 years I finally decided to do it and to
>>>>> share EVERYTHING and to ditch MartUX. For this reason it was called
>>>>> SPARC-OpenIndiana.
>>>>> And while I was woking it, the leader simply resigned because "Solaris
>>>>> is outdated and doesn't perform as well as LinUX"????? I still cannot
>>>>> believe that! Consequently I felt a bit pissed off, because at  least
>>>>> he could have told me about his plans in adavnce!! Whatever, for this
>>>>> reason (and for this reason alone!) the back-renaming to MartUX
>>>>> OpenIndiana.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know.
>>>>> But in my personal view this also allows us (on SPARC) to use pkgadd
>>>>> instead of IPS.
>>>>> Fight a few weeks with IPS, then maybe you understand what I mean.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for testing.
>>>>> And I'm confident, that we can somehow build a community where
>>>>> everybody has a role.
>>>>> This mailing list has always maintained the highest standards, and it
>>>>> shall be fun if we all can work together.
>>>>> As promised, openXsun sources will get released.
>>>>> We only need to find a good home for the repo.
>>>>> Maybe we should ask Alan for an idea ... ??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>      %martin bochnig
>>>>>         https://twitter.com/**MartinBochnig<https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig>
>>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured,
>>>> the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
>>>> irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and
>>>> warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all
>>>> damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG
>>>> episode "The Drumhead"
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>>>> - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA
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>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
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