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.

Comments

[thefon.livejournal.com]

and you wonder why even Sun engineers install linux on their machines

[reddragdiva]

The iLOM processor in every Sun box in the last few years is actually a PowerPC system on a chip running Linux 2.4.

[reddragdiva]

And my work laptop runs Ubuntu and will never run Solaris other than in a VirtualBox where its officious faeces-flinging is firmly isolated.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Well, y'know, you did do some dumb shit to that machine, so it's no great surprise that it's not behaving well. Nuke the package database on your Ubuntu laptop and see just how well it copes when you try to do installs/updates...

[reddragdiva]

Oh yes, it was really quite blithering self-inflicted stupidity!