opensolaris

I use synergy to control my workstation from my laptop and the following the steps on how I got synergyc working on opensolaris. I’ve used the blastwave version and installed it using pkg-get -i synergy Edited the following files /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default towards the top /bin/pkill synergyc /bin/sleep 1 /opt/csw/bin/synergyc -n hostname synergyserver /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default again towards the top /bin/pkill synergyc /bin/sleep 1 /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession /bin/pkill synergyc /bin/sleep 1 /opt/csw/bin/synergyc -n hostname synergyserver

So I am hearing all these great things about opensolaris and zfs and this new cifs server and wanted to try it out.  On my old workstation I had a 20g /data that I used to store files and map it to my laptop to share that directory The default install does not include the smb server so the following packages had to be installed SUNWsmbfskr and SUNWsmbskr and SUNWsmbs svcadm enable -r smb/server Since the disk was dont as a zfs during the installation all I had to do was to create my zfs mount My zfs container was… Continue Reading →

Now to install some software…. Wanting to add some packages from blastwave I added the blastwave repo to the “pkg” listing pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:10000 blastwave Wanting to not install too many 3rd party software I only installed synergy pkg install synergy Now from the opensolaris side I wanted to include everyday tools to make this a nice desktop so I installed openoffice and various other software.  You can search for software by doing pkg search <tag> or launch the package manager in the gui and get a full list of packages One additional software package I wanted to add… Continue Reading →

So I was bored with my workstation and decided to switch OS.  I’ve tried openSUSE but did not like it and wanted something new and different.  So I picked opensolaris.  It took several tries(crashes) to finally have this up and running with the latest code and the way my old workstation was setup. This is a old workstation a Compaq Evo with P4-2.4 and 1G of memory and a onboard e100 card. I booted the machine using the 2008.05 LiveCD and installed the Live image.  So far so good. Rebooted and found that my NIC was not working… after looking… Continue Reading →