"I can live with that. So, if I want to stick with Solaris, which version should I be trying right now? I gather from the above that what I'm running right now is not true Solaris." There are three main versions of quote Solaris , Production Solaris, Solaris Express Developer Edition and OpenSolaris, plus others: 1. The OpenSolaris snv builds that come out every so often are bleeding edge have the latest updates and packages for features a end user or a developer would like to test and use , so maintaining that would best use lucreate and luupgrade from one version to the next. so snv are meant for testing and debugging
2. Taken from sun website Solaris Express Developer Edition, is more stable version for developers and includes all the tools needed to create and migrate bf images.: "for a developer wanting to add or extend OpenSolaris and these updates and features eventually end up in the production version of Solaris you want to setup a root image on a another partition use Solaris Express Developer Edition, SXDE 9/07, Sun has rewritten the GUI front end for the Solaris installer. The changes dramatically simplify and streamline the installation process. It's the first major change to the installer since the release of Solaris 8 in 2000, and should drive further adoption of the operating system, particularly among users with no previous Solaris OS experience., " This is at url of http://developers 3. Now for production version of the end product Solaris that includes direct vender support via Solaris forums and paid contract support that does have some good benefits (see the sunsolve.sun.com website) for both I and spar visit http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp Here is a way to try all three out on the same I 32/64 PC or sparc.workstation. Now the only maintainable way that I know to use , test and develop is to setup a system with three root slices on a 60g or bigger hard drive , with at least 1g of memory, recommend 2g and I like nVidia graphic chipset, vs ATI, it's speed is very good. with regard to the HD partitions for setting a system that can make use of all these three main versions listed above is a slice number "s"# equal's slice numder in the format command when your HD is divvy up under fdisk Soalris2 type parttion. vs windows ntfs, or fat32. s0 for running a inital load of 807(10u4) production version of Solaris. 8gig in size s1 for equal your memory for your swap, I like to use 8gig ( rather be slow then stuck) and the parttions size are easy to remember in case of a DR with your disk for fdisk parttions. s3 for Solaris Express Developer Edition also 8 gig in size. s4 ufs filesystem area for /export i.e /export/install/dvdimage directories used for $HOME accounts , luupgrade , jumpstart, adding removeing packages, etc.., thjis is usefull for Solaris does not yet support zfs on installs or regration testing for UFS or mounting a HD that does not have zfs for the items (files) you might need if moving a HD over to a system old version i.e Solaris 6,7,8 or 9 to copy files. s5 contains a ZFS filesystem, the version is very importent in migrating between Solaris, you need to start with the older version and not upgrade as so you can luactivate each root area to boot from and still make use of zfs partition, from the newer versions of zfs as it comes out, it is so easy to maintain and no filesystem issues, remember to export it and not upgrade it, it can not be accessed from a older version. So one should first load on slice 0 , with the Solaris 8/07 10u4 OEM server cluster this includes server pakages and OEM drivers that allow to move HD or migrate (boot) different types of Solaris images i.e. the Solaris Zones, flash archives restores, jumpstart images on different PC's with respect to i86pc 32bit or 64bit type workstations. Then run a lucreate, luupgrade , luactivate to create your Solaris Express Developer Edition to another slice on the HD i.e. s3, your /export ufs on slice 4 and zfs on slice 5 will carry over and be mounted. Lastly to create a OpenSolaris snv root area to boot from run the lucreate, luupgrade , luactivate to create a new boot root on slice s6 Lastly slice s7 can be used for Solaris volume manager if you choose, so with the advent of ZFS, these days of volume manger are numberd. so not you can boot from your menu.lst by luacitvate between all three versions and try them out and hopfuilly enjoy and contribute One last note it's best to use zfs on it's own HD with nice cache sizes. 8meg or 16meg and fast RPM 7200 or 10K or better, size is a comodity. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
