Posts tagged with: nevada

My little Ultra 20 under my desk runs with two boot environments and flip-flop between them as I upgrade using Live Upgrade. The basic procedure is: rename the old inactive BE (lurename), update it with the contents of the currently running BE (lumake), upgrade it to the latest and greatest (luupgrade), activate it (luactivate) and reboot.This is quite a pain free experience and has worked well for me. I never actually delete the alternate BE as I don't need the space. However, other people need to and ever since GRUB was introduced into Solaris 10 (x86 only) they encounter the following error when attempting to delete the BE that contains the GRUB menu:# ludelete -n snv_22ERROR: The boot environment contains the GRUB menu.ERROR: You are not allowed to delete this BE.Unable to delete boot environment.#This is a long standing issue (I've got a workaround if you want it) that has plagued many a sysadmin using Live Upgrade on Solaris 10 x86 and Nevada. Well, not any more.  Continue reading ►

Wooohooo!! purple-remote (used for controlling Pidgin from the command line) is now in Nevada and works. For some reason purple-remote wasn't included when Pidgin replaced GAIM on Solaris. I'm not sure which build it was introduced in, but it's definitely there in build 93. CR 6578100 still needs to be updated to reflect this though and it still needs to be patched in Solaris 10.  Continue reading ►

I heard about Synergy quite some time ago, but never actually got around to playing with it. Well, yesterday I changed that and took the time to play with it, and I'm quite impressed.To quote the Synergy site:Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).This sounds like my desk. I use a Sunray (snv_81 on SPARC servers) as my primary working environment and then I have an Ultra 20 (snv_80 on x86) next to me which I use for testing, playing and supporting customers on x86.  Continue reading ►

I've been using Devilspie for quite some time, and detailed steps on compiling rev 0.10 to run on Solaris 10. Well, I'm now using a OpenSolaris/Nevada Sunray server on x86, so I can no longer use my old binary.Devilspie has had a complete overhaul since I last built it, so my old instructions don't quite apply anymore. What's more, Nevada has a little bug that will trip up compiling devilspie without a little bit of work.This post will detail how to compile Devilspie 0.22 on OpenSolaris/Nevada.  Continue reading ►

QuickTip: You can find full details on configuring the MySQL that ships with Solaris 10 and Nevada in the /etc/sfw/mysql/README.solaris.mysql file (part of the SUNWmysqlr pkg).

Once upon a time I let it be known that I'd done a fair bit of "playing" with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I've been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this responsibility came a lovely new Ultra 20 to keep my feet warm and the requirement that I need to be able to offer assistance in supporting all the *NIX varieties that Sun supports on it's hardware.Well, never put off my a new opportunity and a chance to play with learn something new, I gratefully accepted the Ultra 20 and set myself the task of installing RedHat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris 10 and Nevada onto the same disk on the same machine.I can happily report, I've done this now and thought I'd share my method.  Continue reading ►

A new WiFi architecture has been integrated into Nevada Build 54 which will pave the way for some pretty cool features in the future, and also will start to bring Solaris inline with (and dare I say, overtake) the likes of Linux on the WiFi front.  Continue reading ►