This applies for modern Solaris 10 on T-series hardware - I know I had a lab T5520 box lock solid on a recent 10 release until the firmware was upgraded.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Alan Chalmers wrote: > Tim, > > I'd suggest you might need to ensure the firmware is up to date on the > T1000 before trying Solaris 11.2 beta. I had no end of issue getting > Solaris 11 to install on a old SPARC box without the firmware update. I > can't recall the model from memory. > > As far as the quickest way to get started I'd go the vagrant path > <http://resilvered.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/solaris-vagrant-packer-and-base-box.html> > as per my talk a couple > <http://www.slideshare.net/AlanChalmers/solaris-11-base-box-for-vagrant-using-packer> > of months back. I have updated my packer code > <https://github.com/AlanC-au/solaris-packer> to support building Solaris > 11.2 beta base box , ( and OmniOS if thats your thing) . > > cheers > > alan > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Tim Hogard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Just a reminder that we are on for this Wednesday night. >>> >>> EVS - the elastic Virtual Switch is the main topic, and if anyone >>> has anything else to chat about - that too. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Nathan. >> >> >> Would it be useful for someone to do a short "This is the best way to >> set up an 11.2 box to play with?" >> For example, I've got a T1000, single disk, no cd rom (no usb boot). >> Its not on a production network so, no external disk, no jump start >> server, no repository. >> What is best for setting this up especially if I'm going to be redoing >> the box a few times? >> >> I'm guessing that spinning up a x86 virtual server as a boot server/ >> repository would be best. >> >> Another useful topic would be to cover how to preserve the build >> details of a system so that when 11.2 non-beta comes out, how to do a >> clean >> install and have it match a beta test server. >> >> Also does anyone have any ideas on how to get a crypto card 6000 to >> show up? It shows up on the list if pci devices, but the driver won't >> attach. >> I expect that I have a driver/device firmware version mismatch. Of >> course that means I can't reload the firmware on the card since I >> can't talk to it :-( >> I tried to roll back two Sol 10 patch clusters in a hope to revert to >> drivers that would talk to the card but you can all guess how smooth >> that went. >> >> Is there any chance that 11.2 will be out before support for 9 ends? I >> noticed that a critical 9 kernel patch was downloaded 30 times in the >> last 11 >> months which seems to imply that nearly no one is even patching those >> systems anymore. >> >> -tim >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> msosug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >> > > > > -- Andre van Eyssen. Phone: +61 417 211 788 mail: [email protected] Alt: [email protected] UNIX: http://cow.mu/1ux GPG: http://cow.mu/1uz Pictures: http://cow.mu/1uy Whatever: http://cow.mu/1v0 _______________________________________________ msosug mailing list [email protected] http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug
