Quote:This saga will continue once I have the necessary peripherals. The Solaris 10 DVD is waiting in the drive!
Dont wait! Its Solaris.. doesnt need an X interface and X is always there when you get your peripherals in.
I took my v880 today.. fresh hard disk and installed Solaris 10 via serial console (vt100) only:
Install Solaris 10 using the console/terminal. (ensure you use ZFS and not UFS during the install)
Install, as new as you can find, Solaris 10_Recommended.zip patches and install them
reboot
Mucked with IP and interfaces as needed:
(note: you need to be able to ping your hostname and have it resolve correctly for X to work right)
/etc/defaultrouter
/etc/nodename
/etc/hostname.<interface> (eri0 is the onboard NIC.. find interfaces with "dladm show-link"
/etc/inet/netmasks
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf (add dns on the hosts: line)
/etc/inet/hosts (/etc/hosts .. ensure your hostname is not stuffed into the localhost entries)
reboot # if needed
Of course, no X.. even if I had a USB keyboard and video (console is ONLY ttya).
I have to make it work manually as you will have to do so:
Find and setup your framebuffer:
fbconfig -list
fbconfig -prconf
fbconfig -dev jfb0 -defdepth 24
fbconfig -dev jfb0 -res /?
fbconfig -dev jfb0 -res 1920x1080x60
fbconfig -dev jfb0 -propt
Set X windows to use your framebuffer:
mkdir -p /etc/dt/config
cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers /etc/dt/config/
vi /etc/dt/config/Xservers
comment out the current last entry :0
put in this one (changing to your framebuffer of course):
:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/X11/bin/Xserver :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/jfb0
restart X: svcadm restart cde-login (or reboot)
# you may find that you may want to run 'bash' then 'export TERM=vt100' or some other terminal emulation setting...
Errors for X should show up here:
/var/dt/Xerrors
Start installing OpenCSW packages. This will take you ages! May as well do it now while waiting for your new USB keyboard.
Setup zpool RAID with more disks.
I suggest to zfs set compression=on zpoolname to turn on compression to some places where you may plan to dump lots of stuff to (dont do it on your root filesystem though, only set it on fresh/newly created zfs filesystems). ZFS compression can actually speed data read access up as well as give you more disk storage.
Play around with Solaris, ZFS, zones, OpenCSW packages, etc.. before you get into its X windows interface.
Just my suggestion
Have fun, the v880 really has a substantial presence when using it.
