Afternoon, I note to my dismay that I can''t get the "community edition" any more past snv_129, this version was closest to the normal way of doing things that I am used to with Solaris <= 10, the standard OpenSolaris releases seem only to have this horrible Gnome based installer that gives you only one option - install everything. Am I just doing it wrong or is there another way to get OpenSolaris installed in a sane manner other than just sticking with community edition at snv_129? -- Tom // www.portfast.co.uk -- internet services and consultancy // hosting from 1.65 per domain
On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Tom Bird wrote:> Afternoon, > > I note to my dismay that I can''t get the "community edition" any more past snv_129, this version was closest to the normal way of doing things that I am used to with Solaris <= 10, the standard OpenSolaris releases seem only to have this horrible Gnome based installer that gives you only one option - install everything.It is true that SXCE b130 is the last SXCE build and only available until 31-jan-10. It is not true that there is only a "horrible Gnome based installer." Try the Automated Installation (AI) version instead of the LiveCD if you''ve used JumpStart previously. But if you just want a text-based installer and AI is overkill, then b131 is available with the Text Installer Project. Downloads available on: http://www.genunix.org http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/TextInstallerProject It is not true that the LiveCD installer installs everything. It is only ~700 MBytes while SXCE is > 3 GB. The difference is that many things are installed after the initial installation (eg. OpenOffice, adobe reader, etc.)> Am I just doing it wrong or is there another way to get OpenSolaris installed in a sane manner other than just sticking with community edition at snv_129?Nothing is sane about Solaris 10 installer, good riddance :-) -- richard
This is a topic for indiana-discuss, not zfs-discuss. If you read through the archives of that alias you should see some pointers. On 1/31/2010 11:38 AM, Tom Bird wrote:> Afternoon, > > I note to my dismay that I can''t get the "community edition" any more > past snv_129, this version was closest to the normal way of doing > things that I am used to with Solaris <= 10, the standard OpenSolaris > releases seem only to have this horrible Gnome based installer that > gives you only one option - install everything. > > Am I just doing it wrong or is there another way to get OpenSolaris > installed in a sane manner other than just sticking with community > edition at snv_129? >
Richard Elling wrote:> It is not true that there is only a "horrible Gnome based installer." Try the Automated > Installation (AI) version instead of the LiveCD if you''ve used JumpStart previously. > > But if you just want a text-based installer and AI is overkill, then b131 is available > with the Text Installer Project. Downloads available on: > http://www.genunix.org > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/TextInstallerProjectThanks, this looks useful.> Nothing is sane about Solaris 10 installer, good riddance :-)It wasn''t that bad! :) PS sorry for this being a non specifically ZFS question, but ZFS is the reason I use opensolaris so there''s a link in there somewhere. Tom
>>>>> "re" == Richard Elling <richard.elling at gmail.com> writes:re> It is true that SXCE b130 is the last SXCE build and only re> available until 31-jan-10. I have a copy of b130 that I downloaded during the few-weeks-long window it was available, but cannot legally give it to you because of the poisonous license terms. They can only be gotten from Sun, which as I repeatedly warned people gave Sun the possibility of turning off the spigot any time they like, which soudns like it''s now happened. If you are considering using Solaris 10, be aware the same problem applies there (along with the additional problem of no source). Unfortunately my advice is to steer clear of the whole platform, including anything dependent on it like iPlanet. re> Nothing is sane about Solaris 10 installer, good riddance :-) +1, but it was convenient being able to archive old builds in .iso form. I don''t know how to archive old versions of the opensolaris ``repository'''', so I''ll have to learn that before upgrading past b130. We''ve discussed just now keeping a less redundant Root pool and more redundant Data pool on the assumption we can always reinstall---this is only true if you archive everything you need to install locally since what Sun offers will change at any time to herd people onto the latest preferred platform possibly cutting off access to what you were running before with its known set of bugs. That means I can''t install usign the opensolaris installer until I learn how to archive the needed files locally and run a test install offline. At least, if I can learn how to archive opensolaris ``repositories'''', I''m allowed to share what I archive with others. To my view that''s a lot more important than the conveniently-saveable .iso''s. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 304 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100201/9e4ea14e/attachment.bin>