Solaris 10: now to put zones on the damn thing.

[reddragdiva]

hauntedunix's suggestion worked: mount the /var zpool as legacy. All hail!

The trick now is that the system won't install zones properly. The zone creates okay, verifies as installable, when I go to install it installs 3 packages and of course won't boot. This is because, desperate for space on Friday, I cleared all that faff out of /var/sadm/pkg ... which is where zone packages are installed from. D'oh!

So today I tried jumpstarting it. And IT appear to have set up the network so stuff won't tftpboot. ARGH. Tomorrow we make an appointment to go down to the server room and ... put the 10u8 SPARC DVD in the drive.

It's been a learning experience.

Oh, and the Solaris 10u8 i386 VirtualBox image that Sun heartily encourages everyone to download and try is a dysfunctional piece of complete dogshit that seems to have been put together with the express aim of warning people off Solaris.

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[gothgeekgirl]

Um. You need /var/sadm/pkg and /var/sadm/patch. Those directories are where the system keeps track of what packages and patches are installed. Have been since Solaris 8 at least.

Zones are dead easy. I should email you some of my notes.

About that VirtualBox 10u8 image... don't. Just don't. Sun's default images are awful - and I say that as an avowed Solaris fangirl.

(just for the record, I am typing this on a newish Vaio running OpenSolaris snv_131, with Windows 7 running inside VirtualBox to feed my TurboTax addiction ;)

[reddragdiva]

Thank you for the notes! I am fully cognisant that my actions constituted blithering stupidity. My boss larfed and larfed ...

I'm tempted to try a Solaris virtual box starting from an x86 DVD image. It can't suck more than this thing.

[gothgeekgirl]

You're welcome. And, as I once said about a potential lover, "I was good- I didn't laugh."

Yes, do try creating a Sol10 virtual box from scratch. It's done very well for me as both production servers and deskside workstations.