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

Fri Sep 28 14:05:04 UTC 2012

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.

Excited about the opportunity to use that workstation, finally! Wonder if
it'll be good for arcade gaming, or any other type of emulators... :)

There is a full gcc environment available, correct? 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. :)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:25 AM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I wrote up a basic wiki page here to make things a bit easier to find:
>
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD
>
> ~ Ken Mays
>
>
>
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>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
> To: developer at lists.illumos.org; Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Cc: Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:44 PM
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based
> MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)
>
> 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
>
>
> ##########################################################################################
>
> ##########################################################################################
>
>
> 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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