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Important Guide for DeveloperIQ Readers
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This is a simple step by step guide for folks who have got the BeleniX
0.3 LiveCD shipped with the DeveloperIQ magazine.
* Booting
Options
The LiveCD comes with 2 GRUB options, ACPI
enabled and ACPI disabled mode. It is recommended to try the ACPI
enabled mode first. If you see any issues with this then you can try
the ACPI disabled mode.
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Installing BeleniX to Harddisk
**** WARNING:
Please follow the installation steps
mentioned below Exactly to avoid any issues with FAT partitions ****
- You MUST unmount
All FAT partitions before starting the installer. BeleniX auto-detects
FAT partitions and mounts them as /mnt/fat0 .. fat1 ...
- Execute "umount
/mnt/fat*" to unmount the FAT partitions and then execute "rmdir
/mnt/fat*". You should not get any errors while executing these
commands.
- Now verify that the partitions have been unmounted by
executing "df -h". No /mnt/fat entries should be listed.
- Now execute "hdinstaller" to install BeleniX to
harddisk. This is a Perl-Curses based interactive utility that will
allow you to create a Solaris2 partition and install BeleniX into it.
- If you chose to use auto-layout then hdinstaller
allocates about 500MB for the "/" slice and the majority of the space
is allocated to "/home". It is recommended to change this and allocate
majority of the space to "/" and keep less space for "/home".
- Also it is better to change "/home" to "/export/home"
since on OpenSolaris "/home" is the auto-mountpoint for user home
directories.
* Where
do I get
additional software packages after installing to harddisk ?
The NetBSD packages
collection called Pkgsrc has been sucesfully been
used on BeleniX since it is officially supported on
Solaris/OpenSolaris. Pkgsrc is slated to become
the official packaging framework for BeleniX.
Please follow these steps to use Pkgsrc: -
- Download the following files into the same directory:
Pkgsrc bootstrap kit: bootstrap.tar.bz2
Pkgsrc setup script : pkgsetup.sh
- Now open a terminal window and change to the
directory where you downloaded the above files: cd /your/directory
- Now execute the script: sh pkgsetup.sh
- Now logout and login again and you are ready to use
Pkgsrc.
- You must now connect to the internet to auto-download
packages.
- To install packages you need to open a terminal
window and execute: pkg_add -v <package name>
This command will automatically download the binary packages and
install them in "/usr/pkg".
- To see a list of available packages please visit:
http://public.enst.fr/pkgsrc/packages/SunOS-5.10/i386/pkgsrc-current/All
Several thousand OpenSource packages are available here for
OpenSolaris.
BeleniX also includes
Solaris SVR4 packaging support and binary Solaris 10 packages of
OpenSource software can be used on BeleniX as well. Such packages
can be downloaded from SunFreeware:
www.sunfreeware.com
This site distributes binary packages that can be installed using
"pkgadd -d <package file>"
BeleniX also includes the gcc (3.4.3) compiler so
free software sources
can also be downloaded and compiled using the familiar configure;
make; make install process.
* Xorg
Autoconfiguration
BeleniX ships with Xorg 6.9 CVS build and tries it's
best to
auto-configure Xorg and detect the monitor. However in occasions due to
unrecognized hardware or Xorg issues this might fail. In that case it
is suggested to boot into command line mode and configure Xorg manually
using the "xorgconfig" utility.
* Where
are the manpages ?
The OpenSolaris manpages are not yet
available in BeleniX because SUN has not yet released these for
redistribution. This will change by middle of next year.
In the meantime you can access the online manpages at Docs.Sun.COM
* How
much RAM is required
?
BeleniX LiveCD requires at least 256 MB RAM to boot
into the graphical desktop. Currently the booting time is somewhat high
but reduces if more RAM is available. The minimum bootup time is
achieved if the system has at least 640 MB RAM.
At least 128 MB RAM is required to boot into command line mode.
However once installed to harddisk BeleniX should be able to boot into
Xfce with 128MB RAM. Though we have not yet tried this out.
* How
do I submit bugs or
report issues and ask for help ?
This
project's development site is hosted on an Indian OSS portal based in
Trivandrum: Sarovar.ORG/Projects/BeleniX
Here you will find public discussion and help forums and will also be
able to post RFEs and Bugs.
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