Learning Solaris 10 Check out the Zones F.A.Q. !

Interesting to see Sun describing & explaining their own “best” boot disk layout : the one used by Sun Service people when sitting at the customer site.

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A good BigAdmin article on a somewhat disturbing procedure for Sparc workers.

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“A locale is a collection of files, data, and sometimes code, which contain the necessary information to adapt Solaris to a specific geographical market. It is essentially a “bundle”, containing information such as the messages displayed to the user, interface component information, for example the size of the buttons; cultural information such as dates and currency formats, and fonts or other writing specific information.”

Only the first of a broad serie of FAQ about Solaris locales. Already contains details about update releases of Solaris 10. Very good info.

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Found in BigAdmin & quite useful.

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BigAdmin script submitted by a Sun employee and supposed to automate the Wanboot configuration. Includes all that is needed to obtain SSL-protection.

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The full procedure, starting from fdisk, including all meta commands and ending with “installgrub”.

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There is the list of patches to install before using Live Upgrade, for all Solaris releases.

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Now that I want to download OpenOffice for Solaris x86 to compare it with the StarOffice suite provided with Solaris 10, I see that the download is available as a torrent. The problem is that Solaris doesn’t come with any Bit torrent client. After a bit of searching, I see that Azureus is the way to go. Completely Java. Unfortunately, although the latest release is available for Solaris 10 Sparc, nothing yet on the Solaris 10 x86 front. After more searching, it seems that Azureus is using the eclipse libraries , which are not available yet for x86 in the official distribution. Although the Azureus-x86 wiki basically tells us that we just need to compile eclipse ourselves and then replace some libraries, this is not trivial and more that what I want to do. But of course, someone did it before…

Eclipse release for Solaris on x86 is a BugId open for Eclipse where people talk about what I need. Included in the webpage is a nice attachement that contains the needed libraries.

Soooo :

1. Download Azureus for Sparc : Azureus_2.4.0.2_Solaris.tar.bz2
2. #bunzip Azureus_2.4.0.2_Solaris.tar.bz
3. #tar xf Azureus_2.4.0.2_Solaris.tar
You should now have a directory named azureus. In it, you’ll find 5 swt libraries ( libswt* ). These are the SPARC ones that you’ll need to replace by their x86 equivalent.
4. Download the eclipse SWT libraries for Solaris 10 x86
5. In another directory, unzip the file eclipse_launcher_and_swt_jar_for_solaris_10×86.zip You’ll have a directory and a jar file.
6. #unzip org.eclipse.swt.gtk.solaris.sparc_3.1.1.jar libswt-atk-gtk-3139.so libswt-awt-gtk-3139.so libswt-cde-gtk-3139.so libswt-gtk-3139.so libswt-pi-gtk-3139.so
   will extract the 5 libraries from the jar file. Simply copy the 5 libraries to the azureus directory.
7. Run the azureus command in the azureus directory. It should work…

From sun.com :

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T: Solaris 10

BigAdmin is hosting a new tool : Installation Check Tool 1.0

The tool is actually an (68MB) ISO image to burn on a CD. Try to boot from the CD and after the Solaris 10 01/06 kernel is started, the tool will report all devices that were detected together with a flag mentioning whether there is a driver available for it ( from Sun or third party ).

To note :

• The tool does not report on video drivers.
• The tool will be regularly updated with the new drivers.

Why not trying the tool before downloading the 4 CDs of S10 ?

(update) : I tried and the tool says I can run Solaris 10! I’m actually running Solaris Express…

T: Solaris 10, x86, OpenSolaris