RE: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-02-01 Thread Brad Diggs
] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:46 PM To: Jerry Jelinek Cc: Tim Cook; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Clingan; zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting I recommend that you restrict blastwave bits to the non-global zone. That way you

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-02-01 Thread Brad Diggs
Blastwave is fine for installing in the global zone. However, this implies that packages added or updated in the global zone would get applied to ALL non-global zones as well. The only issue comes when say you want to install just mysql in one zone and apache2 in another zone. For this you

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-01-31 Thread Brad Diggs
I recommend that you restrict blastwave bits to the non-global zone. That way you cannot end up with package conflicts between the global zone and non-global zones or between non-global zones. I have made installing Blastwave packages really easy for you via the zonemgr with the -G blastwave_pkg

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-01-31 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Tim Cook wrote: So essentially at this time blastwave is just a *bad idea* for global zones. Is something like sunfreeware ok then? I assume the -G option should work with those packages? I don't know a lot of the details of blastwave and how many different options it gives you. However, in

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-01-30 Thread Jerry Jelinek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, you can also use create -b (blank) so you don't have to run remove-pkg-dir 4 times. Actually, the documented way to create a whole-root zone *is* to remove the default inherit-pkg-dir resources. The reason for this is create -b says to use a blank template -

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-01-29 Thread David . Comay
FYI, you can also use create -b (blank) so you don't have to run remove-pkg-dir 4 times. Actually, the documented way to create a whole-root zone *is* to remove the default inherit-pkg-dir resources. The reason for this is create -b says to use a blank template - namely, no properties set and

Re: [zones-discuss] New zone, sysidtool:net isn't starting

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Diggs
When using the zone manager you just tack on a -t w to zonemgr to create a whole root zone. The default is a sparse zone or if you want to specify it from the command line its -t s. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr/ Brad On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:50 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: