On 6/22/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/21/07, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, this has got to be the oddest thing I've seen in a while.
>
> OpenSolaris kernel (and support userspace), and a complete Debian
> userspace.
>
> Yes, it does ZFS.
>
> http://www.gnusolaris.org/
>
> I can't decide if it's cool, because I get solaris features in a
> userspace I'm familiar with, or heinous, because it's ... not
> Solaris. I feel very conflicted.
>
After a few hours, I know more about this software distribution.
1) The ATA driver in OpenSolaris does not recognized an emulated
Intel 82371SB controller which is what QEMU uses. So I can't try
installing in an emulated machine. This is true of all four of the
OpenSolaris distributions I tried to boot -- GnuSolaris alias Nexenta,
Belenix, SchilliX, and Solaris Express. Obviously they are all built
on the same foundation.
2) Put a sacrificial disk drive into the spare computer, and booted
the Nexenta CD. It spends a fair amount of time bitching about not
being able to use the USB2 controller. Then things move along at a
fair pace, finishing the install in about an hour. (1GHz Athlon, 24x
CD reader). When it finishes and is ready to reboot, the CD gets
ejected and then nothing happens. Fortunately this box has a reset
button, and that made it reboot.
3) Despite the fact that I have a moderately current flat-panel
monitor 1024x768, X comes up in some rather weird resolution, like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixable by GUI display configurator. That's as far as I
got before dinner.
4) I let the installer choose the disk partitioning scheme, and
haven't checked to see whether ZFS is involved in any way. Will do
that later. Also will check to see if LVM tools are present.
So -- I'm not quite ready to install this on my main working system.
carl
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