Sunday, April 26, 2009

Minimal OpenSolaris network install script

While preparing new version of zfsinstall, I've written sample version for minimal OpenSolaris installation over network. This script also includes disk partitioning. If complete installation is needed just replace pkg list with:

entire
SUNWcsd
SUNWcs

Try it if you've problems with graphics on old laptops and you can't run GUI installer.
You can find osinstaller script in MilaX mercurial repository on OpenSolaris.org.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Busybox on OpenSolaris

I hacked busybox and now it's working on my Solaris machine. This is not very fresh version (1.2.0) because all last releases become more Linux-specific. I've removed some applets and added "df","init","mount","umount","ps" from Solaris. Network applets like "ifconfig" are currently not implemented. For embedded Solaris we need native "ifconfig" with "plumb" function.

~$ uname -a
SunOS sysadm 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc
~$ ./busybox
BusyBox v1.2.0 (2009.04.20-10:06+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...

BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a
link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
will act like whatever it was invoked as!

Currently defined functions:
[, [[, awk, bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, clear, cp, cpio, cut, date, dd, df, du, echo, ed, egrep, env, false,
fgrep, find, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, head, hostid, hostname, hush, id, init, kill, less, ls, md5sum, mkdir, mknod, mount, mv, nc, nslookup,
poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, reboot, rm, sed, sh, sleep, sort, tar, tee, telnet, test, touch, tr, true, tty, umount, uname, unzip, vi, wc, whoami,
xargs, yes, zcat

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