The basic model for Solaris installation is that LiveCD is intended for laptops or workstations, and Text installation or AI is intended for servers. They install different sets of packages which target the intended model. multi-user-desktop is an optional package (group) intended for desktop servers (i.e. Sun Ray).
May I suggest that instead of using LiveCD for Sun Ray, you use the Text installer and then install group/feature/multi-user-desktop. This will do several useful things for you: 1. It will install a more minimal package subset for desktops. 2. It will configure networking appropriately for a server instead of a laptop (e.g. no NWAM, static address) 3. I will install the core dependent packages required by SRS (DHCP, CDE/Motif) 4. It will provide an SMF 'multi-user-desktop' service, which you can enable to provide some useful optimizations for Sun Ray deployments (mostly restricted choices for desktop users to mitigate desktop features that don't scale well in shared environments). We'd be interested in feedback regarding experiences with that service. There's a document that describes how to configure it, should you care to: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26032/index.html Finally, regarding the updates available through MOS: Patch packages are generally *not* complete packages. I suspect you're looking at the wrong place in the update image. The update image consists of two things: A copy (identical) of the initial release image (suitable for fresh installs or release upgrades), and a Patch directory containing patches, which consist of *partial* packages with just the updated binaries. Our installer will first install/upgrade the release if necessary, then apply any patches. This doesn't yet work for S11 since S11 isn't supported in SRS 5.3. SROS is the one exception. In that case since SUNWutdfw only contains firmware we do release a new complete package in an update and utfwinstall simply replaces it (which will work fine on S11). -Bob On 08/22/12 06:01, Dave Price wrote:
Dear Toomas, Thanks for latest advice. I plan to start another go on a fresh BE shortly, just got caught up in admin meetings :-( I will report back... I am trying to keep definitive notes so I can post whole (hopefully sucessful) take later... Dave Price _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
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