Thursday, November 5, 2009

OpenSolaris Sparc snv125 LiveCD

Following numerous requests from users I've prepared Sparc LiveCD based on osol-1002-125-ai-sparc.iso (see my previous post). Please remember that this iso is UNOFFICIAL version, I've created it only for my tests. With this iso you can test OpenSolaris on your hardware, AI tools or you can install system from this LiveCD manually, using steps from my old posts (i.e. you need to create zpool, copy all LiveCD contents to rootfs, disable live-media services, change vfstab and etc).
Temporarily iso is here.
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15 comments:

  1. Guillaume LarocqueNovember 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM

    Thanks for that! I've been looking for a SPARC livecd for a while now. However, if I understand this properly, this livecd won't allow one to install OpenSolaris on a SPARC computer, as one would do on a x86 machine? I downloaded it, booted from it on a Ultra 45 and tried to lauch X with startx, but that didn't work. Can you point us to some instructions on how to install OpenSolaris from the liveCD on SPARC?

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  2. UnknownNovember 8, 2009 at 7:31 AM

    Another download link
    http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/pub/opensolaris/sparc_snv125.iso

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  3. alhazredNovember 8, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    Guillaume: AI CD does not contain X
    Rodney: Thanks!

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  4. Guillaume LarocqueNovember 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    So, how would one go about installing it on a SPARC machine?

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  5. alhazredNovember 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    Guillaume: see next post

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  6. YamNovember 17, 2009 at 3:15 AM

    Hi. I've tried using the LiveCD. What is the username and password?Thanks

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  7. alhazredNovember 17, 2009 at 3:20 AM

    William:
    jack:jack
    root:opensolaris

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  8. RobertDecember 19, 2009 at 3:49 AM

    Doesn't boot on my sf120:

    ok boot cdrom
    Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
    Can't read disk label.
    Can't open disk label package

    Can't open boot device

    ok probe-ide
    Device 0 ( Primary Master )
    Removable ATAPI Model: CD-224E
    ...

    ok show-disks
    a) /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1/disk
    b) /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk
    c) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/cdrom
    d) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/disk
    e) /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@c/SUNW,lomh@14,200000
    q) NO SELECTION
    Enter Selection, q to quit: c

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  9. alhazredDecember 19, 2009 at 4:41 AM

    Robert: there may be several reasons:
    non-Sun cdrom or bad CD. Try to write iso with minimal speed and try another burning app.

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  10. RobertDecember 19, 2009 at 5:07 AM

    Burn't again and it boots. Thank's :)

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  11. UnknownDecember 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    I'd like to add files to the image but I'm having trouble.

    Even when I attempt to just remake the image with the ONLY the same files you provide it causes a problem in the init script (not sure what just a repeating error after the error about the console drivers not load (ultra 60).

    What I do is:
    #mount -F hsfs `lofiadm -a sparc_snv125.iso` /mnt
    #mkisofs -G /mnt/boothsfs.bootblock -B ... -l -ldots -R -N -D -V snv125 -o /opt/bootcd.iso /mnt/

    I expect this to remake the exact image. The size is exactly the same as what I downloaded from your site but it will not successfully boot ( gets to the can't load console driver then the repeating crash in the init script [no line number or what file the init is trying to run that is crashing]).

    Any ideas?

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  12. alhazredDecember 30, 2009 at 12:06 AM

    Don: Now there is no need to AI iso's hacking, see http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/2009-December/015625.html

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  13. ryh1August 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    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

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  14. NativeAngelsSeptember 8, 2010 at 3:45 AM

    How do you install this on a sunfire v100 ?

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  15. alhazredSeptember 8, 2010 at 3:57 AM

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

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