[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On May 6, 2008, at 11:08 , Michael Parson wrote:
>> On May 6, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> Well, actually, being as it's to be a server, I'll be getting to it 
>>> via ssh anyway.  I just didn't want to burn cycles pointlessly 
>>> running a Gnome that I'm never even going to log into.
>>
>> Then don't start dtlogin.
> 
> You still have all that cruft on the system.
> 
> Also, from my testing last night, you can't install without Gnome and 
> dtlogin/gdm.
> 
> I tried console login and it gave me a login prompt, and after login as 
> "jack", I was never able to figure out how to start a non-graphical 
> install.
> 
> I believe that's what at least one poster wanted to do.

As long as I can turn dtlogin off once I'm done installing, that gets me 
99% of where I want to be, I guess.  I can live with the lost disk space 
for all the Gnome cruft, as long as I don't have to actually *run* it.


Meanwhile, what's the wisdom on disk usage for current Solaris 10?  Does 
it too support ZFS boot, or do I need a non-ZFS root to boot from?  The 
machine in question has 12 300GB SATA disks and no separate boot disk. 
There's a bay I could put one into, an available power connector, and I 
have various extra disks, but I'd need to add a controller for it too.


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