Yea, it's basically the critical node of my home network, but I've lost it before. Between hardware failures, and various reinstalls, there's been time it's been offline for days at a time. There was a time when I was trying distro after distro of Linux to see what would run well on SPARC hardware besides Solaris, so it's all good, :)
In the mean time, though, I've been playing around with OpenSolaris on a VM to make sure that the scripts, ipf and ipnat setup, and other handfuls of personalization will carry-over without issue, and so far everything seems just fine. ipf and ipnat is right where it normally is, and my configuration files seem to get along with things just fine. All my custom scripts work as needed, and so far no surprises. Obviously, playing around on a VM is a bit different, since it means I'm running the x86 version, as well as running with "ideal" hardware presented from VMWare. Since I'm no stranger to Solaris, if worse came to worse, the whole system would be back as it stands within almost no time. Since the system disk is mirrored, I'll just break the mirror and do an install of OpenSolaris to a single disk. If I like how it turns out, then I'll add the second disk as a mirror. If not, then I'll boot from the second disk and just rebuild my original mirror. Anyways, now the only thing I'm wondering if the SPARC installation will work via a console connection to tty0 or will I need to dig out a keyboard, mouse, and monitor? My Sunblade is headless... Completely... It resides in the cage in the basement, along with the switch and the cable-modem. Besides ethernet the only other connection to the box I have is the serial connection to tty0. Installing Solaris was cakey via a console connection. Actually the console install was simpler than the old-school graphical install that Solaris still uses. So, I guess as long as I can run through the installation via the console connection I have, all will be wonderful. Otherwise I'm going to have to dig up a display and sit around in the basement while I run through the graphical installation, :) Thanks, :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
