Moving to OpenSolaris
We had a power outage last night and the interruption has created some errors on disk0. I tried to fsck, but there’s not much use unless I boot from a live CD and umount the filesystem first. I decided that maybe this was a good time to go to Solaris 10 10/08 anyways.
But then I thought, if I’m going to reinstall, why not try OpenSolaris? The new 2008.11 has some nifty features and all I really care about is getting my ZFS pool shared out via SMB/CIFS anyways. Hmmm, and doesn’t OpenSolaris have built-in CIFS support? That could be fun to try…
So 30 minutes later, I’ve got the OpenSolaris ISO downloaded and the CD has been burned. Booted into the CD, and I’m immediately greeted (well not, immediately - booting from CD is slow) by a desktop with Firefox, etc. all ready to go. This is nice.
There’s a “Install OpenSolaris” icon on the desktop. I click that and it recognizes my 6 drives. I wiped the boot drive and now it’s chugging away. It’s about 50% done after what seems like 15 minutes or so (I’m catching up on Twitter while I wait, so who knows how long it’s really been). Can’t wait to see it in action and get my zpool mounted and CIFS working.
Here’s what I’m really excited about… Apparently there are a few people that have Firefly Media Server running on OpenSolaris. This is going to be great!
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