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

Wed Oct 3 18:42:16 UTC 2012

look like the same issue I had.  Just make the /dev/fb link yourself and 
delete the lines in /lib/svc/method/xsession that try to determine the 
link independently.  I have an xvr-1200 as well.

worked great for me after that.

On 10/ 3/12 12:35 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> I got my Sun Blade 2500 to boot with Martin's build, I made a Google+
> photo album with the system and screenshots.
>
> I was unable to get X11 to come up, the screenshots show my efforts.
> It has an XVR-1200 framebuffer, and it originally came with an XVR-600
> as well, which I pulled.
>
> http://dft.ba/-1Ynd
>
> Hopefully I'll be able to get some progress with openXsun booting, I
> may just not know how to do it.
>
> Great work, Martin!
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:57 AM, David Halko <davidhalko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good Day Martin!
>>
>> Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4
>> Gig RAM.
>> - it takes about 48 minutes to boot
>> - we have no video display, so we use the serial console
>> - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an
>> external VNC console
>> - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop
>> - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a
>> Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable
>> - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a
>> live-dvd server environment
>>
>> This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very
>> professional!
>>
>> As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a
>> basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is
>> bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for
>> fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is
>> desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less & serial-less
>> installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance.
>>
>> I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release
>> management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could
>> provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for
>> upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to
>> pkgadd -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install
>> against a ZFS alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build
>> environment, named by release. There is no reason this could/should not be
>> 100% automated. Once again, we could help here.
>>
>> Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some
>> NFS network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable
>> enough to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could
>> make a very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first
>> box, validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package;
>> keep a few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we
>> could get a little guidance.
>>
>> I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100%
>> technically accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited, and there
>> are others ready to dig-in and bring this forward. For storage, test
>> systems, scripting, and automation - we can find some resources. We don't
>> do C, nor do we do pretty, but we do functional.
>>
>> Thanks - David Halko
>> http://svr4.blogspot.com/
>> http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko <davidhalko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines.
>>> Thank you for your efforts!
>>>> Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any
>>> software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under
>>> SPARC OI since it is so buggy & a moving target.
>>>> There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently
>>> available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also
>>> don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in
>>> SVR4 packaging.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David Halko
>>>> http://svr4.blogspot.com/
>>>> http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
>>> Hi David!
>>>
>>> many thanks for your nice comments and +1  :)
>>> I'm glad to get such feedback.
>>>
>>> However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff.
>>> No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early
>>> during, it would be a very long story to tell)   ...
>>>
>>> As for IPS I could not agree more with you.
>>> The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything.
>>>  From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough.
>>>  From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst
>>> enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!).
>>>
>>> Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours,
>>> then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the
>>> first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly
>>> it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine,
>>> how one feels as a distribution-constructor!!
>>> A year is nothing while fighting with IPS  ...
>>>
>>> See the thread "pkg-discuss] gcc install?" under:
>>>
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html
>>>
>>> p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ...
>>>
>>> tnx && rgds,
>>>
>>> %martin
>>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD
>>>    http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris
>>>      http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940
>>>        https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig
>>>          http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty soon)
>>>
>>> Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/
>>>
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