Minimal Solaris

Great to see your blog is still alive! :-) Are th...

2012-03-02T02:42:13.640-08:00

Great to see your blog is still alive! :-)

Are there any SPARC distributions left? Looks like MilaX 0.3.2 (which is by the way not downloadable anymore) was really the last one...

I want to install OpenSolaris. thanks are guided o...

2011-11-29T16:27:08.539-08:00

I want to install OpenSolaris. thanks are guided on how to install this.

After applying removed lines you must fix some iss...

2011-11-29T12:24:09.287-08:00

After applying removed lines you must fix some issues, as I remember:
set_l10n_alternate_root (just comment out), missing pid_find, also you need to add VSW_ZMOUNT to vsfdev_t in lx_prvfsops.c...

Thank you very much! A gentleman as well as a scho...

2011-11-29T11:51:01.617-08:00

Thank you very much!
A gentleman as well as a scholar... :)

hg export -o lx.diff 12613

2011-11-21T09:24:31.318-08:00

hg export -o lx.diff 12613

so ahh...any hints how I could make this happen on...

2011-11-15T14:07:12.540-08:00

so ahh...any hints how I could make this happen on OpenIndiana_151+?

What are these "Small fixes"? pleaseplease! thanx! :)

Hi! It would be really appreciated if you could p...

2011-08-27T23:40:37.673-07:00

Hi!

It would be really appreciated if you could publish the steps needed to make a live cd from the latest solaris 11 sparc express.
Thank you!

Unfortunatly I am working on a Sparc Solaris machi...

2011-05-19T14:18:53.568-07:00

Unfortunatly I am working on a Sparc Solaris machine currently running on a v210 installed with http://www.genunix.org/distributions/caiman/textinstall-134-sparc.iso. I'm still having the same issue I listed before and have been struggling with this for obviously awhile.

Is there any way you could try making a new CD and post command-by-command instructions for some of the steps you skipped or the entire process? The things that confused me are something as easy as copying the files from the ISO. I used "find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm ", but I'm sure there are several ways, and not all of them are right. Creating the lofi symlink is still confusing (What is the final name, "1"?), and which boot directory are you wanting us to put hsfs.bootblock in (I assumed the s0)? I assume we need to modify root_archive before running it even if it's in the opposite order. I know this is basically what you had already done, but there seems to be something missing, and lots of assumptions needed to be made. Even when looking at your iso, it doesn't appear to have all of the steps you posted done to it, and the ISO works.

I know your blog is geared toward more of the group that would have been using Solaris for nearly a decade but I'm jumping into it head first and having a hard time catching up on years of "that's how we do it in Solaris".

I appreciate any help.

You should have sparc Solaris running to create is...

2011-03-31T23:48:36.847-07:00

You should have sparc Solaris running to create iso image.

I'm attempting to cut a sparc livecd with adde...

2011-03-31T07:27:24.326-07:00

I'm attempting to cut a sparc livecd with added scripts, so unfortunately I need to try to get this working.

The error I get on boot, after research (found the ellipse in the mkisofs man page >.<), is the following:

"Warning: Fcode sequence resulted in a net stack depth change of 1

The file just loaded doers not appear to be executable.

{1} ok "

I've been working on Linux for years, but Solaris is a new beast so this means little to me.

I've successfully made the mod too root_archive, packed and unpacked the created file with out error, made all the changes you listed (except the lofi part I still may have wrong due to intelligence issues).

If you have any advice, I'll gladly take it but I've failed to find anyone else who seems to have successfully produced a Sparc Live CD. You're unofficially my only hope. ^_^

You'd better use usual last sparc LiveCD now ...

2011-03-30T23:00:10.402-07:00

You'd better use usual last sparc LiveCD now :)

Amazing find (and great instructions), but I'm...

2011-03-30T12:08:49.088-07:00

Amazing find (and great instructions), but I'm having an issue following a few steps:

When I'm to symlink the lofi@0:1, do I expect to have it named the same (just flat ln -s [file]?)

Lastly, when I'm mkisofs, the -B elipse, is it suppose to be an elipse or are you referring to the previous hsfs.bootblock?

Additionally, I was only able to burn this CD on a linux machine (or solaris I suppose, but didn't try). Windows kept giving me errors. Should I be able to only burn this on a Solaris machine for some reason?

Awsome beautiful design! I really like the way the...

2010-12-15T13:40:00.274-08:00

Awsome beautiful design! I really like the way these circles are presented,

thankx man nice post!
- John Devis
Magento Themes

nice post! can you please explain how to configure...

2010-12-09T15:46:03.492-08:00

nice post!
can you please explain how to configure dwm (Xinitrc) and how to start it?

This iso is outdated already, try on your V100 htt...

2010-09-08T03:57:32.468-07:00

This iso is outdated already,
try on your V100 http://genunix.org/dist/caiman/textinstall-134-sparc.iso

How do you install this on a sunfire v100 ?

2010-09-08T03:45:18.292-07:00

How do you install this on a sunfire v100 ?

It seems this is due clock driven lbolt migration....

2010-08-31T23:17:05.843-07:00

It seems this is due clock driven lbolt migration. Not tested, but I think now need use next function:
fbt:genunix:ddi_get_lbolt:return
{
lbolt = args[1];
}

Just tried this on snv_134 and got the following: ...

2010-08-31T12:29:10.461-07:00

Just tried this on snv_134 and got the following:

line 7: failed to resolve `lbolt: Unknown symbol name

Looking through /dev/ksyms, I see a multitude of local <...>_lbolt objects, but no global lbolt object.

It's easy to make on already loaded system. To...

2010-08-25T00:08:37.917-07:00

It's easy to make on already loaded system. To create the boot chart is probably just need to find the desired command from the file and make the graph only for it

Could this be used to monitor a specific process -...

2010-08-24T21:45:40.553-07:00

Could this be used to monitor a specific process - say to capture the performance of a particular process over a period of time? I'm new to dtrace...how could a specific PID be used to manually capture the stats of a running process (as apposed to all the processes)? Good stuff - thanks.

Hi, I love your tool who is excellent when using ...

2010-08-20T03:54:23.756-07:00

Hi,

I love your tool who is excellent when using VBox on OSOL to check how much each VM is taking for CPU/RAM !

Thanks and please continue evolving it !

Karim

Another download link: http://www.tekops.com/sub/...

2010-08-16T21:00:37.078-07:00

Another download link:

http://www.tekops.com/sub/index.php/resources/public-mirror

Alex, happy to help.

Thank you so much for all the hard work on this!

David

Agree ;)

2010-07-20T00:27:31.678-07:00

Agree ;)

It would be great to see "Boot Charts" t...

2010-07-18T05:40:51.713-07:00

It would be great to see "Boot Charts" timing info combined into the OpenSolaris Bootscreen to provide a SMOOTH countdown for the Boot.

Rob

debasis: Ask Shawn about this (mail to pkg discuss...

2010-05-21T05:57:30.993-07:00

debasis: Ask Shawn about this (mail to pkg discuss)