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

Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhunter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 16:26:41 UTC 2012


If SVR4 packages work on the current OpenIndiana, you may want to look
into NoMachine NX instead. That would probably be your easiest and
best solution for what you're trying to do.

www.nomachine.com

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:57 PM, David Halko <davidhalko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan <
> kumar at xstorsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin
>>
>> --- On Tue, 10/2/12, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [developer] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download
>> link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without
>> installer)
>> > To: developer at lists.illumos.org, "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <
>> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> > Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 8:19 AM
>> > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM,
>> > DavidHalko <davidhalko at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > > 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)   ...
>> >
>> [snip]
>> > 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  ...
>>
>> Maybe you have already evaluated this option, but we have come with a way
>> to perform an automated install without requiring a network connection
>> while still using IPS.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more details on what we did if you think it would
>> be helpful for you.
>>
>
> If it works under SPARC, I would be interested in some alternatives.
> Right now, Martin is the first SPARC distribution out of the gate - would
> love HTTP, TFTP, NFS, or WebNFS options.
>
> I now have 3 V120's in the test lab:
> - 4 Gig RAM (DVD)
> - 2 Gig RAM (CD-ROM)
> - 1 Gig RAM (CD-ROM)
>
> Depending on how this goes, will start adding V100's.
>
> Suggestions appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> David Halko
> http://svr4.blogspot.com/
> http://netmgt.blogspot.com/
>
>
>> Kumar
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