Finally completed the switch to open solaris by installing nv b89 dvd on my U20 M2. Earlier I was using Solaris 10 11/06. Most of the installation and configuration of existing software went fine. The procedure to just get a desktop up and running has improved a lot compared to earlier Solaris.
Some questions and suggestions of improvements: 1. GUI installer: Could not install when choosing default "Solaris Express Developer edition" from the main menu. The installation aborted after the language selection pages with some error about cannot create a directory, "/root/.gnome2/share/fonts" Had to restart and choose "Solaris Express". This is not a big deal although a bit annoying for a first time user of Solaris. 2. Installer: Network configuration. The installer does not allow me to choose between DHCP and static IP. It just asks about an IP number to be entered and later it runs some network tests, which it reported fails. This is confusing if you are running DHCP in a typical LAN home environment where the IP is generated by the router. I would also prefer to have better control over what host and domain name you want to assign. I should mention that the network connectivity still came up after a reboot but I did not get the local IP and hostname added in the /etc/hosts file as I'm used to get under DHCP in Solaris 10. nv 89 /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost Solaris 10 /etc/hosts, the dynamic IP and hostname added like: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.101 my_host_name # Added by DHCP This causes problems in sendmail hostname/domain name not fully qualified, which I could only resolve by manually adding 192.168.1.101 my_host_name my_host_name.my_domain in /etc/hosts 3. X11 forwarding into the local X server. If I do telnet or rlogin from this machine to another local machine and set DISPLAY to the proper IP, X11 forwarding did not work. I found out that the X server per default had changed to not to listen to incoming tcp requests. Had to run: svccfg -s x11-server setprop options/tcp_listen = true 4. Change from IDE to scsi drivers for SATA interface. This is good although I experienced problems in mounting an older ufs partition created under Solaris 10 on my second drive. Don't know if there is some incompatibility between file systems created using the older IDE drivers and the new scsi drivers. Had to recreate the ufs file systems on this second disk. 5. Companion CD confusion The iso image of the companion CD software for Solaris express contains only some of the packages. Also, some sunfree packages are already installed under /usr/sfw. It's confusing to identify what you need to install and what is already on the system. /Karl D This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
