[livemedia-discuss] some more testing :)

[Moinak Ghosh]

Diego Righi wrote:
> Hi, I downloaded the kit and did some testing, hey it's awesome and works fine! :)
> As any good geek I started by broking the rules: I'm using snv46 instead of 44 :P
> I had a nice little barebone, an asus vintage, which I bought at a local computer
> fair for cheap, my plan is to turn it in a cool zfs fileserver with my pr0n directory
> exported via nfs :P
> But I really don't want to put it another internal disk just to install snv46 on it, so I
> think that this live kit comes really handy for my scope (yes, I have already evaluated
> belenix, schillix and nexenta for as long as they are out like from 0.1).
> As of now I managed to make it work with vmware-server's pcn0 interface and with iprb0
> I tried to make it work with the asus vintage integrated sis190 with murayama's driver, but
> it only works in the snv46 "real" disk install, not on the live media :/
> Anyway the real iprb0 pci is fine and all the rest does work fine, nfs, nic, ssh, even X with cde and even zfs  :)))
> Another thing that I'll need, and that is not much documented, is how to handly modify the /usr filesystem, I understand that's compressed in the solaris.zlib file in some strange hsfs optimized mode, but I'd like to have a simple way to mount/unmount it on an installed system to add/remove things, as I do with the handy x86.microroot which instead is simply gzipped so I can do:
>   

   I am working on HOWTO which will explain the steps. Basically you 
will have to
   chroot and use pkgadd/pkgrm. In addition a small enhancement will be 
required in
   the script itself.

   You cannot modify an ISO image even if it is not compressed.

> # gzcat /opt/livekit/bootcd_proto/boot/x86.microroot > /tmp/x86.microroot    
> # lofiadm -a /tmp/x86.microroot /dev/lofi/1
> # mount -F ufs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/prova
> to open it, and:
> # umount /mnt/prova
> # lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1
> # gzip /tmp/x86.microroot
> # cp /tmp/x86.microroot.gz /opt/livekit/bootcd_proto/boot/x86.microroot
> to put it back before rebuilding the iso with my changes in :P
> (yes, I tried to read the perl script and I also tried to install the special cloop-like module on my snv46 system, but I didn't manage to mount this solaris.zlib thing, I'm noob :')
>   

   solaris.zlib can be uncompressed to the original ISO file using
   livekit/packages/clofi/ldecompress  utility.

   However as I said earlier you cannot modify an ISO directly so
   doing this is not of much use unless you just want to check
   what is inside the file.

> So first thing, all my compliments and respect goes to this project and the authors, is not
> only a cool geek toy, it's something that works well and is useful!
> Second thing: questions! (they had to come, in a way or another :)
> 1) Is it possible to make the all thing 64bit only instead of 32bit only as it is now?
>     (snv46 works really well in 64bit mode on my hardware, it would be a pity to use 32)
>   

   Yes, possible and in the works.

> 2) Is it possible to understand why additional drivers doesn't work? I know it's stated in
> the README, but anyway, I'll happily look forward to do some more testing if it's needed =) I really don't want to bother you, k? :)
>   

   That's a bunch of work to add drivers by hand. It is not advised.
   Rather you can execute add_drv in a chroot environment. Details
   will be in the HOWTO.

Regards,
Moinak.

> tnx!
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