Good Day Martin! Some of us spent this evening working with your LiveDVD on a V120 with 4 Gig RAM. - it takes about 48 minutes to boot - we have no video display, so we use the serial console - we figured out how to bring up ethernet interface with DHCP and an external VNC console - we like the nice selection of apps that were included on the desktop - we accessed your OI-SPARC via VNC from a SunRay client hosted on a Solaris 10 V240 - very reliable - we will need to update scripts on the iso, to make it more useful as a live-dvd server environment
This being said, this looks good enough to move forward with! Very professional! As far as an installer, Caiman is not required. With your direction, a basic installer could be made using existing infrastructure (I see dtksh is bundled, meaning X, CLI, and HTTP are all reasonable... I did not look for fmli yet... a solid bug-free scripting frameworks with small footprint is desirable.) Maybe even gdm/xdm on boot for console-less & serial-less installs. We may be able to assist here, with your guidance. I am wondering whether zfsdiff with snapshots may be helpful for release management and automatic package creation. SVR4 class-action scripts could provide for compression support. Sparse SVR4 packages could be made for upgrades. Packages could automatically be made available over HTTP to pkgadd -x option for a wanboot mini-root. Later, pkgadd could install against a ZFS alternate boot environment. Perhaps zfssend from a build environment, named by release. There is no reason this could/should not be 100% automated. Once again, we could help here. Have you thought about a network boot from OpenBoot, maybe mounting some NFS network drives from a Solaris 10 platform (until OI-SPARC is stable enough to self-host)? We have some other V100's and V120's... This could make a very nice release management environment (zfs snapshot, boot first box, validate, package; zfs snapshot, boot second box, validate, package; keep a few boxes always live) We would be willing to work on that, if we could get a little guidance. I realize everything I said above is very brief, may not be 100% technically accurate, but I think you can see that I am excited, and there are others ready to dig-in and bring this forward. For storage, test systems, scripting, and automation - we can find some resources. We don't do C, nor do we do pretty, but we do functional. Thanks - David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. > Thank you for your efforts! > > > > Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any > software will ever be commercial software made available for IPS under > SPARC OI since it is so buggy & a moving target. > > > > There is plenty of SVR4 Solaris 10 SPARC commercial software currently > available. SVR4 packaging is also extensible without code changes. We also > don't need to do pre/post install/remove scripts, if we choose not to in > SVR4 packaging. > > > > Thanks, > > David Halko > > http://svr4.blogspot.com/ > > http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ > > Hi David! > > many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) > I'm glad to get such feedback. > > However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. > No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install and textinstall crash early > during, it would be a very long story to tell) ... > > As for IPS I could not agree more with you. > The question is and remains, if we necessarily ___need__ IPS for anything. > From a user-only's point of view it is already bad enough. > From a distribution-builder's view I would not even wish my worst > enemy to experience it (ghhrr!!!). > > Here only one current example: A user's T2000 runs pkg for 8 hours, > then crashes. To do a thing that would not even be necessary in the > first place in such a scenario, with SVR4-pkgadd! And this is how ugly > it is from a user's point of things. Then you do not want to imagine, > how one feels as a distribution-constructor!! > A year is nothing while fighting with IPS ... > > See the thread "pkg-discuss] gcc install?" under: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2012-October/thread.html > > p.s. I added your SVR4 link to my footer ... > > tnx && rgds, > > %martin > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD > http://www.youtube.com/user/MartUXopensolaris > http://www.facebook.com/pages/MartUX_SPARC-OpenIndiana/357912020962940 > https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig > http://www.martux.org (new page not yet online, but pretty soon) > > Forwarding David Halko's: http://svr4.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
