Scott, > I'm good with all the install steps, except where I install the build tools, > the binary only files and the BFU. > > The build tools look okay, it's just a pkgadd. For the binaries > (on-closed-bins-DATE.PLATFORM.tar.bz2) after I untar them, what do I do? The > README doesn't really tell you how to install it. > > Likewise with the BFU, I've been googling but I can't find anything to tell > me how to slide this into place.
Installing SXCE is simply a precursor and prerequisite to running OpenSolaris. It really depends on how you wish to step up to OpenSolaris. If you wish to build it yourself (via the "nightly" build tool), then simply have the closed-bins untar'd in your build area on the same level as usr. They will be picked up and incorporated into that archive that will be created when your build succeeds. On completion of the build, you will BFU the archive that you have just created, and reboot; thereafter you will be running OpenSolaris. Note that to perform a full build, you will also need to download and install Sun Studio 11. If however, you wish to gain OpenSolaris by installing the BFU archive (a prebuilt OpenSolaris instance), then you don't need closed-bins at all; just the BFU archive. Just point the "bfu" build tool at the BFU archive, and it will do the rest. On next boot, you will have an OpenSolaris installation. Apols that this was a very cursory explanation. Regards... Sean.
