[OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

[Rainer Heilke]

On 11/21/2013 10:20 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22.11.2013 08:02, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> After spending most of the day trying to get the OI 151a8 (LiveCD
>> Desktop) install to boot up with fixed IP addresses, I finally gave
>> up. The wiki is very outdated, and self-contradictory. So I googled,
>> and still nothing. And network-admin doesn't run without NWAM enabled.
>> (This system is a small home running DNS, Mediatomb, and storage
>> shares.and with NWAM, I have to log in to fire up the network
>> interfaces.) But it also acts occasionally as one of my desktops. So,
>> since a fresh install of 151a8 Desktop cannot be made into a server, I
>> installed the server version.
>>
>
> if you are using static IP then what is problem to disable nwam, use 
> network:physical and configure IP without automagic?

Simple - it doesn't work. network-admin won't run, and all of the IP 
configuration files disappear on reboot if I do it by hand.
>
>> The server version, however, is text only (of course). No Gnome. So,
>> how can I add it?
>>
>> Note that DNS seems a bit borked. I can
>> 'ping 91.194.74.133
>> I can
>> 'dig pkg.openindiana.org'
>> but I cannot
>> 'ping pkg.openindiana.org'
>> getting an "unknown host" error. (??) So 'pkg refresh --full' always 
>> fails.
>>
>> I suspect this will be the last time I install fresh, rather than
>> doing an upgrade. :-(
>>
>
> Your nsswitch config is missing dns for hosts and ipnods.

Rats. I thought I replaced nsswitch.conf with nsswitch.dns.Must have 
missed this on my nth time around. Thanks.
>
>> Rainer
>
> Best regards,
>
> Milan
>
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