> Fortunately I knew I could save it to a file, and then run it from the command line via "/usr/bin/javaws <foo>.jnlp", but that's another one that I would think should "just work".
FWIW, a bug has been filed on this: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=956 HTH, Gregg alan mcclellan wrote: > Friend of mine recently set up OpenSolaris and sent me the following > feedback, which I thought others might be interested in. -alan > ============ > I installed VirtualBox today on my Linux system at home, and Just installed > OpenSolaris 200805 in it. Pretty impressed, it all went pretty smoothly. > The LiveCD is great, very Ubuntu-like. I never even had to burn a physical > DVD, VirtualBox was able to run right from the ISO image that I pulled from > the net, and then I installed onto my (virtual) harddrive directly from the > ISO. > > A couple of things, and you've probably heard them before, but they seem to > be fit-n-finish things that could really help: > > - the darn Solaris installs with the hosts name service set to "files". DHCP > seemed to work fine, got an address from my DSL router (the DHCP server), my > system was on the internet, but there was no name service. That's just > silly. So I had to go and copy the /etc/resolv.conf file from my Linux box, > and then copy /etc/nsswitch.dns ot /etc/nsswitch.conf. Trivial for somebody > who has been using Unix for a long time. A newbie is just going to wonder > why their web browser isn't working. > > - So once I got my browser working I googled for "coolstack" and went to the > Sun download center to grab the LAMP stack (er, Solaris AMP stack) to > install. The cool Sun Download Manager is a Java WebStart (jnlp) file. And > the Firefox that was bundled and installed on my OpenSolaris box didn't know > what to do with it. Fortunately I knew I could save it to a file, and then > run it from the command line via "/usr/bin/javaws <foo>.jnlp", but that's > another one that I would think should "just work". > > But those gripes aside, this is pretty cool. I just grabbed the pieces > individually -- first VirtualBox, then the OpenSolaris ISO. And for a > somewhat experience user, it's pretty easy. I think the OpenSolaris install > compared very favorably to my experience with Ubuntu 8.04. > > ============ > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
