OpenSolaris Blog

Many ques­tions have been asked regard­ing how to update Open­So­laris to vol­un­tary build. In this post I’ll show how to update from one build to b126, for example.

beadm cre­ate snv-126
beadm mount snv-126 /mnt
pkg install –R /mnt entire@0.5.11,5.11–0.126
bootadm update-archive –R /mnt
beadm unmount snv-126
beadm acti­vate snv-126
reboot

I just found one inter­est­ing post how to install net­work dri­ver on Open­So­laris. Hope some­one will find it use­ful. Orig­i­nal author is Allen Sanabria.

Now Open­So­laris is not as pop­u­lar as Linux so there are not as many devices sup­ported as there are for Linux (So bare that in mind). When I first installed Open­So­laris and Open­So­laris booted up just fine, I logged into the nice Gnome Win­dow Man­ager and opened up a shell. I ran ifcon­fig –a and it showed two lo inter­faces (One ipv4 and the other ipv6) and an nge0 inter­face (Old Nvidia Drivers).

I had no net­work con­nec­tiv­ity, so I had to google for a few sec­onds and I found that if you run ifcon­fig dhcp start this will send a DHCP request to the DHCP server. Well I ran this and it just sat there and waited until it exited with no dhcp server response. I did not know if that was the right dri­ver for my net­work card though I did assume it was why else Open­So­laris choose that dri­ver for me.

My first instinct is how do I found out for sure that nge was the cor­rect dri­ver for my net­work card. So I need a util­ity that is equiv­a­lent to lspci in the Open­So­laris world, after some search­ing I found scan­pci and prt­conf. Though prt­conf did not give me what I was look­ing for in this sit­u­a­tion but scan­pci did. This is the out­put of scan­pci for my net­work con­troller… Basic Net­work­ing on Open­So­laris continued »

Thanks to one of Open­So­laris’ sis­ter com­mu­ni­ties — BeleniX, its founder Moinak Ghosh wrote one nice script and a blog post how to use it and build Open­So­laris from source. I’m glad to present his work and here is excerpt from his post:

The util­ity takes a work­space con­tain­ing the Open­So­laris build snap­shot tar­balls and patches to apply and at the end deliv­ers binary pack­ages. It is also has the abil­ity to check for pre-requisites for run­ning the build. For eg. pres­ence of proper ver­sion of SUN Stu­dio 12, devel­op­ment and locale head­ers, assem­bler etc. It should work on both BeleniX and Open­So­laris though I have found time to only test it on BeleniX till date.

Get­ting it: Exe­cute pkgadd –d http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/autobuilder.pkg

Open­So­laris Auto-Builder continued »

This video might be inter­ested to show full poten­tial of ZFS. It has been done on a funny way but it still show full advan­tage of ZFS over other file systems.

Our web pages finally went to pub­lic and con­tent started being added each day. I’m more than happy wait­ing this day and see how our small com­mu­nity start to grow. So far, we have more than 50 reg­is­tered mem­bers and this num­ber grows up each day. I saw that many peo­ple ask about user­name and pass­word when they want to start Open­So­laris Live CD. Answer is quite sim­ple — both of them are jack, and when one user want to takeover super user priv­i­leges pass­word is — open­so­laris. This is some­thing that could be eas­ily found on Inter­net, but I feel respon­si­ble to write this in my post again.

I hope that we cre­ated our Open­So­laris com­mu­nity that will never dis­ap­pear and will be able to self-govern and grow up in future. When I receive such feed­back from our Com­mu­nity I’ll be very proud on myself and on my col­leagues whose helped me so much to achieve such target.

On Decem­ber 1^st, Open­So­laris 2009.06 will be shipped with Decem­ber issue of regional (Ser­bian) Com­puter World mag­a­zine. I believe that it will be the best oppor­tu­nity to show the wider com­mu­nity what Open­So­laris is and what it would be in near future. As IT tech­nol­ogy sec­tor becomes more mature, crack­ing Oper­at­ing Sys­tems will be more and more harder and typ­i­cal user who used to live with cracked soft­ware has to make tran­si­tion into open source world if he want to have free soft­ware. Open­So­laris is a great solu­tion for that since it is the most reli­able and sta­ble OS on the world.

Usu­ally, when pro­gram­mer starts to learn new lan­guage first code she or he writes is well known “Hello World”. Hav­ing that in my mind I named my first post with that name. I wanted to tell the world that I’m new in this emerg­ing blog world and I have to learn a lot since this is my first blog I decided to edit with­out any help. I installed blog engine and built every­thing from the scratch. It was rel­a­tively easy, but I ahd to do lot of man­ual tweak­ing since I wanted my blog to be clean and simple.

Top­ics I plan to cover will be from Open­So­laris world. It won’t be con­nected nec­es­sar­ily to oper­at­ing sys­tem itself but also to its sur­round­ing tech­nolo­gies. It would be mix­ture of per­sonal opin­ions, tech­ni­cal stuffs, news and ideas related to Open­So­laris Project. I hope you will like it, and find inter­est­ing mate­r­ial for read­ing. Com­ments are, of course, more than welcome.