On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.rito...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice. Just grabbed it and tried, but this poor thing doesn't have enough > RAM. Now this is getting to be a personal challenge more than a pragmatic > solution. I feel like I'm so close. Anyone know of a way to make the > installation boot to something other than ramdisk? Like, maybe I could > pre-load a swap partition with the miniroot or something like that? > The ramdisk method is pretty well standard across the illumos family now. The current network boot is even worse - the whole OS gets loaded into RAM (the media boot handles /usr separately). There are several ways to get round this. None currently in a "supported" state (or even documented): 1. You should be able to use the existing install to copy the contents of the CD to a new zpool (potentially on a new disk, although I don't recall whether the Ultra-5 allowed a 2nd drive). This requires unpacking the CD - the boot_archive is just a ufs image, the solaris.zlib file is a lofi-compressed hsfs filesystem image containing /usr. (You said you had snv65, I don't know whether lofiadm did compression back then.) It shouldn't be that hard to emulate the Tribblix installer to do this (I'll get around to it eventually, I need to do this or something close for some other functionality I'm playing around with). 2. As a variant of (1), pull the packages from the repo and pkgadd them to the new root. That's really all the Solaris 10 installer did, only the repo was on the media. 3. Set up a network boot server and boot off NFS. I know this works on x86, I haven't yet tried regular network boot or NFS root on a sparc box. For minimal memory, you'll need genuine NFS root, the vanilla network boot is just a different source for the ramdisk. Sounds like an interesting project. I wish I had more time to work on it! > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Jonathan Adams <t12nsloo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 3 February 2015 at 10:02, Jonathan Adams <t12nsloo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > On 3 February 2015 at 06:28, Michael Schuster < > michaelspriv...@gmail.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> I think Martin Bochnig's opensxce may be an option - he claims that " > > >> OpenSXCE runs [....] Sun UltraSPARC sun4u/sun4v-compatible 32-bit & > > 64-bit > > >> computers". > > >> > > > > > > I believe that Martin has stated that OpenSXCE is dead, but that he was > > > looking to work on a new project that he might announce later. > > > > > > > My mistake, he's announced a new version on his twitter feed: > > > > " Friends! Back in Europe, more during next days. OpenSXCE 2015.01 > getting > > pushed over the next weeks (x86 and afterwards SPARC)" > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss