[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers

Till Wegmueller toasterson at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 23:03:25 UTC 2021


Roughly yes.

Or follow the guide at:
http://docs.openindiana.org/dev/distribution-constructor/

-Till

On 19.03.21 18:08, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated NVIDIA drivers, Andreas...:
> 
>> As the next OI Hipster release is scheduled for end of April we don't
>> provide new boot images yet.
> 
> Andreas & others-
> 
> If I wanted to start testing the current state of boot images,
> would
> 
>      pkg update # followed by a reboot
>      pkg install distribution-constructor
>      sudo distro_const build slim_cd_x86.xml
> 
> be the best early approximation of the new boot images?  Obviously
> not everything that will be in 2021.04 has landed yet, but are those
> steps reasonable, to give me images that will be similar to 2021.04?
> 
> I ask because I've been making periodic trips to my workplace's
> datacenter, as we're retiring some systems and getting ready for network
> changes.  I would have several opportunities to test OI images on
> both old and new hardware we have.
> 
> I expect that it's going to take some time and some back-and-forth
> with you, Toomas, and others to troubleshoot some of the issues we've
> seen in the past, especially with the USB images.  I would like to get
> started on that process.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim



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