Hi Gary,

That's great news - thanks for reporting your success story :-)

Good luck with the thinkpad!

Cheers,

Alasdair

On 17 Apr 2011, at 13:56, Gary Gendel wrote:

> All,
> 
> A big congratulations to the development team.  My main SOHO server's OS has 
> not been upgraded since os_134b because OpenIndiana failed to install for one 
> reason or another.  The last of the problems was with bge and usb drivers.  I 
> tried oi_148b and finally have OpenIndiana running.  In fact, all the little 
> projects I wanted to try (i.e. netatalk) went without a hitch.
> 
> The only caveats I have for people upgrading are:
> 
> 1) If you had SpamAssassin installed, the move from perl 5.8 to 5.10 means 
> you'll have to install it again.  The only issue I had was that the spamc 
> tests failed the build.  I force installed it anyway since I don't use spamc 
> in my setup.
> 
> 2) I'm still getting the occasional error in the logs:
> 
> mDNSResponder: [ID ... daemon.error] ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
> 
> This seems to happen much less than it did in os_134b (I turned off avahi and 
> mDNS in 134b because of this).
> 
> That's it!  Everything else went smoothly.  Goodbye OpenSolaris, hello 
> OpenIndiana!  Kudos. I'm a very happy camper.
> 
> I'll have to try oi_148b on my ThinkPad z61p laptop again. That was getting 
> close too. :)
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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