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

Roel_D openindiana at out-side.nl
Wed Oct 3 21:02:21 UTC 2012


It started with a Sparc, and from the Ray of light the Sun rose once again...



Op 3 okt. 2012 om 20:42 heeft Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> het volgende geschreven:

> 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 min



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