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

[Daniel Kjar]

THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS!!!!!  You are the best Martin!


On 09/27/12 12:44 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> Here is a mail from Al Hopper, well-known from genunix.org, who once
> again arranged the hosting.
> It is unbelievable how much effort and money he puts in supporting
> community projects like this.
> Other classic OpenSolaris distros who know him from genunix.org times
> know this, too.
>
>
> So:
>
> Let us THANK AL HOPPER!!!
>
>
>
> Here the preliminary links:
>
>
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> do a:
>
> wget dist.martux.org/MartUX-OpenIndiana_Edition-151a0-LiveDVD__sun4u_sun4v.iso
> wget dist.martux.org/MartUX-OpenIndiana_Edition-151a0-LiveDVD__sun4u_sun4v.iso__MD5SUM
>
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>
>
> Remember that the first download may be a little slow - since the
> cloudfront (edge) server may be fetching the content while providing
> the download.
> But subsequent downloads should be pretty quick.
>
> BTW: this is production ready - so if you know someone that wants an
> advance copy of MartUX, you can provide them the link.
>
>
> Burn the DVD with cdrecord.
> It is the best DVD burning software and handles error conditions
> better than everything else.
>
> After you boot the DVD, log in as root.
> Password: openindiana
>
> Then type X11go.sh to start JDS.
> Depending on CPU speed and I/O bandwith of the bus your DVD-Drive is
> connected to, the first start of JDS will take foreeeeever.
> At least 5 minutes, but on poorer machines with broken cmd646 ide
> chips (U5/U10) or slow CPU speed (below 1GHz), it can take a lot
> longer.
> Subsequent restarts of openXsun and JDS are as quick as a spaceshuttle
> (if you for some reason want to return to text mode, close the login
> xterm, to restart type X11go.sh again).
>
> System requirements:
>
> Any sun4u or sun4v system from 1995 (Ultra-1) to 2010 (T5440).
> 512MB is the real hardlimit to get a text-login with warning.
> But normally 768MB is the minimum for either text or X11.
>
> ##### BUGS: #####
>
> 0.)  /usr/sfw/bin/gcc has been built w/o multilib support (you cannot
> compile OS/Net with this version).
> gcc 3 needed to be configured with --disable-multilib in order to
> build at all on SPARC, only the famous SUNW csl-sol210-3_4-20050802
> patches seem to work around this, but this comes later.
> If you want to build Illumos, then there is still Studio 12.1 in /opt/SUNWspro.
> Disable shadow-compilation. No extra step is required to define Sun's
> cc as primary compiler.
> gcc 4.4 in /usr/gcc/4.4 is also present, but after a few build errors
> and the fact that I didn't yet test it, I don't know if it works,
> probably not.
>
> 1.) The SunBlade 2500 Red and Silver have different IDE DVD-ROM drive
> models, than most or all other machines.
> These are damn picky! You may get media read errors with DVD+R media
> and SMF mumps out.
> If this happens, either burn with x1 or try different media or best:
> Replace that picky DVD-ROM with one of the last IDE DVD-Multiformat
> burners that you get on eBay for 5$.
>
>
> 2.) Man other smaller bugs, but lets not count them.
>
>
> More screenshots and the actual html content and videos come later,
> probably tomorrow or on Sunday.
>
>
> 	
> <<MartUX__SunBlade150__550MHz__OBP4.17.1__2GB__addon_PCI_PGX64____1024x683pixels.JPG
> (image/jpeg) 97K>>
> <<MartUX__SunBlade1500Silver__1503MHz__OBP4.16.4__3GB__XVR-600____1024x683pixels.JPG
> (image/jpeg) 96K>>
> <<martux-logo.png (image/png) 132K>>
> <<IMG_3512.JPG (image/jpeg) 143K>>
> <<IMG_3546.JPG (image/jpeg) 123K>>
> <<MartUX__etc_release____1024x683pixels.JPG (image/jpeg) 94K>>
> <<IMG_3517.JPG (image/jpeg) 136K>>
> <<IMG_3549.JPG (image/jpeg) 170K>>
> <<IMG_3556.JPG (image/jpeg) 115K>>
> <<IMG_3552.JPG (image/jpeg) 89K>>
> <<MartUX__Sun_Ultra60__Dual450MHz__OBP3.23__2GB__Raptor8p__running_JDS_on_openXsun____1024x683pixels.JPG
> (image/jpeg) 91K>>
>
>
>
>
> Happy booting   ;-)
>
>
> Cheers,
>     %martin bochnig
>        https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig
>
>
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Dr. Daniel Kjar
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