Been messing around with the virtual OpenSolaris install for a little over a week now and finally getting my head around managing solaris software.
Managed to download and install OpenOffice.org3.1 on it about 3 days ago and worked like a charm! Now working on getting netbeans downloaded and working on it.
Trying to keep it safe and work with mostly run software first and them gradually work my way up to other packages eventually even doing compilations from source.
Virtualbox3 installed okay but didn't really make sense to me to run a virtual machine inside a virtual machine so I never got sound to testing it.
The opera browser package I downloaded for OpenSolaris seems to be corrupt, will try to download another later.
Till the next post...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
If once you fail them try, try again.
The OpenSolaris baremetal installation was a bust! But I did not let that get of down, I tried again to install it in virtualbox and this time it worked!
Will post a few photo's of the installation once I have figured out how to upload photos from the phone I'm using to blog.
So far the installation is working perfectly and tomorrow I shall get round to trying to install some Solaris software.
Will post a few photo's of the installation once I have figured out how to upload photos from the phone I'm using to blog.
So far the installation is working perfectly and tomorrow I shall get round to trying to install some Solaris software.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Disappointment, getting really familiar
Well, today's installation of OpenSolaris did not go as planned.
First, the installation hung my computer due to a memory leak problem when OpenSolaris was 94% done with installing! Grrr!
Next, after a fitfull nights sleep, I managed to install it within VirtualBox and when I booted it, wouldn't give me a graphical desktop.
Tried fixing it but to no avail. Was so pissed off that I even tried installing PC-BSD instead, but that's a different story for a different blog posting.
Anyway, have decided to install the OpenSolaris to bare metal, wish me luck!
The problems encountered are already piling up, Dvd writer's not working so I have to copy the image over to a pals computer for burning using a USB thumb drive! The fact that the electricity's acting up shall not even be mentioned here.
My next posting shall be on the actual installation hence it may be a few minutes or a few days away, till then.....
First, the installation hung my computer due to a memory leak problem when OpenSolaris was 94% done with installing! Grrr!
Next, after a fitfull nights sleep, I managed to install it within VirtualBox and when I booted it, wouldn't give me a graphical desktop.
Tried fixing it but to no avail. Was so pissed off that I even tried installing PC-BSD instead, but that's a different story for a different blog posting.
Anyway, have decided to install the OpenSolaris to bare metal, wish me luck!
The problems encountered are already piling up, Dvd writer's not working so I have to copy the image over to a pals computer for burning using a USB thumb drive! The fact that the electricity's acting up shall not even be mentioned here.
My next posting shall be on the actual installation hence it may be a few minutes or a few days away, till then.....
Monday, July 6, 2009
In the begining there was darkness... . . .
Pardon the pun. Just trying to find some nice way of introducing the OpenSolaris sun.
0001hrs,
7th July, 2009.
Just started installing OpenSolaris 9.06 on my virtual machine, specs:
1.6 GHz, 512 MB Ram, 20 GB Virtual hard disk.
First impressions are that OpenSolaris have a very pretty installation screen, matter of fact, seems like even PC-BSD have a kick ass installation screen, but thats a different story for a different blog post.
Hoping to turn this from just a fantasy into a workable OS. Solaris has UNIX pedigree and the backing of one of my all time favourite tech companies. Combine that with a bleeding edge internet mirror network, close association with some of the open source worlds best projects in the name of Virtualbox, OpenOffice.org, MySQL. I really think that this could work.
0001hrs,
7th July, 2009.
Just started installing OpenSolaris 9.06 on my virtual machine, specs:
1.6 GHz, 512 MB Ram, 20 GB Virtual hard disk.
First impressions are that OpenSolaris have a very pretty installation screen, matter of fact, seems like even PC-BSD have a kick ass installation screen, but thats a different story for a different blog post.
Hoping to turn this from just a fantasy into a workable OS. Solaris has UNIX pedigree and the backing of one of my all time favourite tech companies. Combine that with a bleeding edge internet mirror network, close association with some of the open source worlds best projects in the name of Virtualbox, OpenOffice.org, MySQL. I really think that this could work.
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