Showing posts with label v9os. Show all posts
Showing posts with label v9os. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

New v9os iso and repository archive


Well, two years later, I decided to upgrade v9os. As a result, after the noise of the servers under my ear I have a little bad hearing at the moment :). But iso was rebuilt with spring changes from the illumos (unfortunately the system is panicking after later commits, I hope to solve this out later).
Some things were fixed, some components were updated, pkg and caiman were moved to python 2.7. I’ve a more powerful server now and I hope that further updates will be forthcoming in this winter.
Site design was also a bit updated.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Meet v9os, a minimalist illumos-based SPARC distro

This summer I decided то build something compact and modern for my two SunFire servers using IPS. Meet v9os - minimalist illumos-based SPARC distro.
On this stage, actually it's an OmniOS SPARC version, because the iso was mostly created using omnios-build, so I would like to express my deepest gratitude to OmniOS developers.

The iso was tested on SunFire v240. I would be grateful for any feedback on what works, and how it boots on other SPARC servers. I'm looking for the hosting for the IPS repository, for now you need to download packed IPS repo from the sourceforge and put it somewhere on installed system. I forgot to fix timezone installer issue in this iso, so please just type “Continue” on timezone screen while installing. Root password is solaris. This is a beta release and it lacks yet some packages like java, gcc 5. 

Special thanks to Martin (I used OpenSXCE on the first step) and Igor for the SPARC support in illumos.

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