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Solaris 10 Released and Installing -original post 02/05
27 October, 2005, 08:13 am
Solaris 10 is officially out. I'm attempting to download it, but Sun's servers are swamped!
I've been waiting for ZFS for a long time :) I'll be upgrading my Ultra30 to Solaris 10 as soon as I can get the .iso's.
w000t!
Got all of the CDs last night, as Sun's servers got a bit more bandwidth back, it came in at a nice 45k. Got all 5 CDs, 4 Software and 1 Companion CD of GNU goodies...
6:48am - Swap 4.1gb for 9.2gb 10K UltraSCSI, now fOrk has 2x9.1gb.
6:55am - insert Solaris 10 CD1, Stop-A the boot and boot cdrom.
6:59am - pretty blue CDE screen, select English (0) and continue
7:02am - complete Identification, input IP Addy, Subnet, etc.
7:03am - input DNS info and domain name.
7:05am - have to leave for work, leave fOrk running, will resume after work or around lunch time!
7:08am - sneak back to hit F2 some more, system is being initialized....
7:09am - Set out for work again...
7:28am - a couple more F2's, now at the disk layout, doing a FULL install, 4.2 gigs!
7:30am - REALLY going to work this time, will be home around 3 or 4, should be allowed to continue around 8....
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x86 Solaris - original post 12/1/04
27 October, 2005, 08:12 am
Well I had another power outtage, or rather my son pulled the plug on fOrk 2.0, and I had taken all my SPARC install media to work to play with spOOn. I had to re-download the media, and found there was a newer version. I'm currently using 4/04, and the latest was 9/04.
I fired up the Sun Download Manager and before I knew it was downloading...
Burned the isos, 4x, nice and slow....
DUH! they are x86 isos!!!!
So I am now in the process of converting my Redhat Fedora Core 1 laptop over to x86 Solaris 9! It is a Gateway Solo 2500 333MHz with 128Mb of RAM and a 4.3Gb HDD. Linux runs decently on it, and so far so does Solaris. Got it all installed and its on the way to being functional :)
Will update and maybe a screenie or two later!
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KDE on Solaris -original post 12/4/04
27 October, 2005, 08:11 am
This isn't really that hard to do, and works on SPARC or x86. You can certainly install from blastwave.org too, and use their pathing inplace of mine, but I've found that the older 3.1.1a release on the Solaris Software Companion CD is a tad more stable and an easier go of it, even if its a bit dated.
To install KDE and get it to show up in the login screen's choices for sessions do the following:
Install KDE from the Software Companion CD or blastwave.org. The software companion will install to /opt/sfw/kde.
In a terminal, as root:
cd /opt/sfw/kde/dtlogin
chmod +x (or 0777) install_dtlogin
./install_dtlogin
exit
Now either restart the machine or refresh the dtlogin screen and KDE will now show up in the list of available sessions. Alas, this is not all that's needed to get it to actually run.
I prefer to do the next bit in a Command Line login, but you could definately do it from any terminal, even remotely.
Login as your user (not root) and add the following to your PATH statment in the .profile file for your user. This file will be in the user's home dir (/export/home/someuser) if its not there, just create it. I like to use pico which you can also install via the Software Companion or directly from blastwave or SunFreeware.com. If you don't have the bin directory from your Companion CD install in your PATH already, or there isn't a .profile file, then you can do this from any command line like so:
/opt/sfw/bin/pico $HOME/.profile
Add the line:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/sfw/kde/bin:.
export PATH
to the .profile file. If it already exists, you can just tack it on the end of the PATH that is already there. Just remember to add a . at the end of that statment and export it at the bottom of the .profile file.
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GFTP 2.018rc1 Package -original post 01/04/05
27 October, 2005, 08:11 am
Compiled this as an update to the 2.0.17 that is out on blastwave.org.
Nothing special, just standard ./configure and gmake :)
Built on Solaris 9 4/04 with GCC 3.4.4 UltraSPARC. This package installs in /usr/local.
http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/gftp-2.0.18rc1-sol9-sun4u-local.gz
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