[ug-bosug] a few questions...

[Moinak Ghosh]

Ananth A wrote:

> Hi Moinak (and others!),
>
> its great to hear the project is going forward steadily!! :=)
>
> i have recently managed to get the Belenix 0.4.3 installed last
> weekend and i have a few questions...
>
> - is there a normal installation planned ?? or will it always be
> installation from a live cd ??

   It is planned to have a complete multi-cd or DVD install media.
   BeleniX will become a complete distribution.

>
> - what kind of package management system do you plan to have ???
> ports, debs, rpms, custom builds ???

   NetBSD Pkgsrc which is officially supported on Solaris:

   http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

   It is package manager + auto-update + auto-build system that
   we are working on adapting to manage the entire system including
   the core OS packages.

>
> - there are a few minor quirks while using the solaris enviroment,
> especially since i am more familiar with the linux env... for eg,
> there is just a single console terminal etc... so i want to ask if it
> is possible to run just the solaris kernel and repalce everything else
> based on the linux environment ??

   Support for multiple virtrual consoles is a kernel feature and is being
   worked on currently by several people in China.

   BTW if you are looking for a complete GNU environment running
   on top of OpenSolaris kernel you can try the Nexenta distribution:

   http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki

   It is a Debian/Ubuntu type of system but uses OpenSolaris at the
   core.

>
> - another surprising thing was that there was no man pages.... i guess
> its cuz of licencing issues that its not yet available... do you have
> any updates on the same?

   Yep licensing. The documentation team is working on open-sourceing
   the manpages. But I do not have an ETA - maybe a couple of months.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> -how do i mount a fat32 partition ????? a search on google gave me the 
> command
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p0 /winc
> but i got an error message about not able to find the filesystem type..
>
> checking in the /etc directory, i found that only ufs, zfs, hpfs have
> the mount programs but none for fat{16,32}  ... nor for ntfs, ext2,
> reiser or bsd ufs2!!
>
> the only workaround solution was to burn a cd everytime i wanted to
> transfer files to belenix... is there an easier way to do this ????
>
>
> Ananth
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