The wild goose of computing.

[reddragdiva]

Q. What's the difference between Esteemed NT Muppet typing boot net -install and boot net - install when attempting to jumpstart a Sun workstation?
A. Two days' chasing wild geese, that's what.

(I must admit I did the exact same thing when I first did a jumpstart. So I plead a bad user interface.)

Of course, that doesn't solve the problem with the broken piece of shit proprietary applications that crash X with the latest Solaris patches installed. But it gets us a little of the way there.

Comments

[redcountess]

btw, did you hear back from the recruiters?

[reddragdiva]

Not as yet :-)

[barbedwirekiss.livejournal.com]

Got the recommended patch cluster in there as well? If you do it right, you can install the patch cluster onto the Software directory and install a fully patched version of Solaris via jumpstart.

Niiiiice! :)

[reddragdiva]

Yes, that's what we do :-)

The problem comes from FUCKING SHITAWFUL SOFTWARE that actually requires downgrading the OS to work. Then two bits of shit which require different downgraded revs of the OS but have to coexist on the same machine ...

[xandraius.livejournal.com]

What sick fucking person came up with THAT lil bit of kludge, and is there a way to fix it? Or will Middle Viral Botulism... I mean management have shit fits.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I have to assume that any logical solution to this dilemma will be instantly (as within femtoseconds of submission) be completely and utterly dismissed by management to the very bottom of /dev/null. You know, underneath the pr0n even.

[reddragdiva]

The "logical" solution is to find the programmers responsible and introduce them to the red hot poker of enlightenment. The quality of software is inversely proportional to the price.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're familiar with that old chainmail about the development cycle of software?

boot

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I can no longer remember clearly which is correct. Hooray!

Re: boot

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Neither can I, but having shot myself in the foot like that before I'd look first. :-)

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

But surely the error from boot net -install should make it pretty obvious that the syntax is wrong. Won't it try to boot a kernel called -install ?

Or is the error message less informative than I recall?

[reddragdiva]

It just asks where the kernel is.