> I must dispute the assertion that Hipster 2017.10 is ready. > Hi, Thank you for your feedback,
> > I have a failing hard drive on my Internet access system running > oi151_a8. I have installed a new hard drive, partitioned it with gparted > and booted the DVD image. I have been running OI on this box since 148. > > 1) at the live desktop I cannot run either installer nor can I open a > terminal window. All I get is a nice popup "i/o error" dialog. > Could it be that your DVD drive is failing as well? Or simply your motherboard controller? > 2) when I try to boot from the DVD in single user mode it demands a user > name and password, but does not accept "jack/jack" or "root/root". If you > need to come up in single user mode from a DVD this is *really* annoying. > There is no security if you have physical control of the machine playing > games with the person booting from the DVD is pointless. > The reference documentation: http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/ states that the password is 'openindiana' (and likely has been for some time). To make sure I just verified that it works as expected. > > 3) I can find NO alternative ISOs! Not sure what you mean by "alternative". How about the Text Installer? > > 4) The DVD boot menu does not have an install option. WTF? > The desktop has two icons: - Install OpenIndiana - Install OpenIndiana using text installer This is usually enough as soon as the system is able to boot up, which is allegedly not your case. > This *used* to be SunOS where things worked properly and you were not > forced into using the very latest version if you didn't want it. > > I fully appreciate that there is only a small group doing most of the > work. But this is almost enough to make me give up and just run Windows > for my Internet access. > Sorry that your experience is not smooth, but it may vary depending on your hardware. I have 4 machines and 2 virtualbox instances running OI and encounter issues very seldom (or none that can't be fixed with a bit a effort) Kind regards Aurelien > > Reg > -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 10/31/17, Alexander Pyhalov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: [oi-dev] OI Hipster 2017.10 snapshot > To: "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 5:55 AM > > Hi. > > OI Hipster 2017.10 snapshot is ready. > > Images: > > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-gui-20171031.iso > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-gui-20171031.usb > > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-text-20171031.iso > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-text-20171031.usb > > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-minimal-20171031.iso > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20171031/OI- > hipster-minimal-20171031.usb > > SHA 256 checksums are available at > ${link}.sha256sum > Detached signatures for images are > available at ${link}.sig > > The OpenIndiana Release Engineering key > has key id 0x3a021afadbe31887 ( > https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3A021AFADBE31887 > ). > > Release notes: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2017.04+Release+notes > > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Pyhalov, > system administrator of Southern > Federal University IT department > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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