On 6/22/07, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 22, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> 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.
That foundation would be Solaris 10, so whatever drivers Solaris 10
for x86 supports is pretty much going to be the limit. This, sadly,
is annoying.
I did my install in the latest VMware Server (1.0.3 i believe) and
everything "just worked". I gave it 512MB ram and 8GB of disk, and
let it do it's automagical things whenever it offered the option.
> 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.
Solaris and all the OpenSolaris derivatives are unable to boot from
ZFS as yet, so the default install gave me:
512MB swap
7.5GB / (UFS)
if I want to play with ZFS, I'll have to add another virtual disk or
two to the VM.
> So -- I'm not quite ready to install this on my main working system.
Nor I. It feels basically like an OpenSolaris core with a thick
blanket of Ubuntu wrapped around it; all the SUNW packages are
installed as .debs and managed via the APT tools. all the core
system utilities are from solaris, but the rest of userspace is very
GNU. For me, it feels like the best mix, since I usually ended up
installing all the GNU tools from sunfreeware.com anyway, and built
all my stuff with gcc, back when I had Solaris systems. Ending up
with basically the same setup from a fresh install that includes APT
tools is just a bonus.
Quite similar to my experience when I went back to look at what really happened.
On a nominal 60BG disk:
slice 0 is an 8GB root partition
slice 1 is 48GB ZFS, and contains almost everything else
slice 7 is 1GB swap, and is shared with /tmp
There seem to be no tools for mounting or otherwise using LVM
partitions. It's too late today to think about what I would do to
cope with this. Grr. I looked at the list of mountable file types in
<sys/mntent.h> and forgot to look specifically for ext2 and ext3. Bet
they aren't there either.
carl
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