[OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> Just installed hipster in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host.
>
> I used this iso: oi-hipster-gui-20160421.iso
>
> It's been disappointing.

That's kind of rude.

>
> Seems that updating to latest image is not possible:
>
> A command like `pkg image-update -v'
>
> Just sets and never returns or shows any activity. But it is burning
> up all resources.
>
> If I go to a differnt xtem and try to do anything, the host stalls
> completely and no activity is possible at all.
>
> Can't run pkg publish right now to show the output here as things are
> totally stalled, but publisher is set to:
>    http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster
>
> Had a similar bad experience trying to install the vbox guest tools.
> At the end of the process it stalls with .. updating .. boot .. something?
>
> Am I wasting my time with the mentioned iso... is there a more recent
> one?

Yes testing ISOs have been announced
https://www.openindiana.org/2016/08/16/mate-and-new-test-isos/

>
> Are folks generally able to get a working system straight away from
> the iso mentioned above?

Yes I was able to get a working system from this ISO in three
VirtualBox instances last month.
Each of them has 3GB RAM and 24GB disk.

>
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