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

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

I think my SB2500 has either an XVR-600 or XVR-1200, can't remember off the
top of my head. Will find out tomorrow when I work on the host for the
first time in a while! :)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
> <shadowhunter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Hi Alex, this extra step indeed only required on the SB2500.
> And maybe it was only caused by my cheap JLDS (or what it was,
> manufacturer as reported by Joerg's cdrecord) DVD+R 4.7GB disks, with
> the cheap label "Kaufland".
> I had no other media anymore, will re-test the SB2500 Red and Silber
> (both behave identically) tomorrow, with other vendor's DVD's.
>
>
>
> > There is a full gcc environment available, correct?
>
>
> I compiled /usr/sfw/bin/gcc and /usr/gcc/4.4/bin/gcc from
> consolidation oi-build.
> As I wrote yesterday somewhere, I was required to add an auto-applied
> patch that changes the ./configure command line to include
> --disable-multilib. Otherwise gcc doesn't compile on SPARC. However,
> so nice so good. But this cause OS/Net or Illumos to fail instantly.
> The solution is hidden in the special diffs that Sun used since
> Solaris 10. But at the first place I had believed, a distro like OI
> would years ago have included them And secondly I was under immense
> time pressure, so I didn't look where we can get these diffs (or if
> they are in the open at all). So I just kept it like that, for now.
>
> Because, and here it comes: The LiveDVD does include /opt/onbld,
> /opt/dtbld and /opt/SUNWpro with Studio12.1 !
> So you can still compile a lot of software, even that which requires
> multilib support to be present in the compiler.
> And the most famous example of such a src tree is OS/Net Illumos. To
> build that customize illumos.sh to disable shadow compilation.
>
>
> > 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. :)
>
>
> Hmmm, thanks Alex.What shall I respond to this?
>
> #0.) The difficulty lies not in compiling the code.
> As you  see all the consolidations are already built, and copied over
> to the 11GB LiveDVD (clofi gzip-6 compressed less than 4GB).
> The problemm is also not building a repo when skipping dependency
> resolution.
>
>
>
> #1.) As I wrote yesterday, the best IPS repo documentation available
> is on openindiana.org.
> Go there! And save a copy before they may shut down the servers or
> whatever.
> It is excellent inside information that is available there.
> Eric Lowe has a substantial share in that work!
>
>
> Your help is really appreciated.
> And we SPARC users can and will somehow work as a community.
> For that reason yesterday's critical questions, that I sent.
>
> Most importantly: For what do we need IPS?
> SVR4 pkgadd can offer most the IPS's functionality that users really
> demand (network-install and automatic fetching of deps).
> To get IPS running has a price.
> And it doesn't matter how large my test repo is.
> I created several repos, and the largest has 2 GB.
> But with the normal procedure of one would normally want to pkgsend
> new packages into it, you could not even do the most minimalistic
> stuff.
> I'm writing this from abroad.
> To post details I need to be at home.
> But my proposal was: Why not simply ditching IPS.
> I mean, if OI has no leader anymore, the main reason no longer exists
> for which I had wanted to start with IPS at all, after I hesitated for
> 2 years.
> Isn't it pure irony?? After 2 years I finally decided to do it and to
> share EVERYTHING and to ditch MartUX. For this reason it was called
> SPARC-OpenIndiana.
> And while I was woking it, the leader simply resigned because "Solaris
> is outdated and doesn't perform as well as LinUX"????? I still cannot
> believe that! Consequently I felt a bit pissed off, because at  least
> he could have told me about his plans in adavnce!! Whatever, for this
> reason (and for this reason alone!) the back-renaming to MartUX
> OpenIndiana.
>
> I don't know.
> But in my personal view this also allows us (on SPARC) to use pkgadd
> instead of IPS.
> Fight a few weeks with IPS, then maybe you understand what I mean.
>
>
>
> Thanks for testing.
> And I'm confident, that we can somehow build a community where
> everybody has a role.
> This mailing list has always maintained the highest standards, and it
> shall be fun if we all can work together.
> As promised, openXsun sources will get released.
> We only need to find a good home for the repo.
> Maybe we should ask Alan for an idea ... ??
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>    %martin bochnig
>       https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig
>
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