Centralised package delivery on Solaris can be a bit of a pain. Blastwave was a nice solution, but with OpenCSW splitting away from them and the two camps now delivering the same packages to the same disk hierarchy we’re left with too much choice and a confusion of options. They’re still both a good solution, but maybe there is a better option. Read more »
Tag Archives: howto
Further Catalyst on Solaris notes
Posted by Mark
on May 6, 2009
No comments
In my last post about installing Catalyst on Solaris I went to great lengths to install every Perl module, in order, from CPAN. This was a painful process to establish, and just as painful to emulate. The post was updated back in March to include CPAN bundles, which would do most of the hard work for you – but as was pointed out in the comments, it should’ve been a simple case of ‘cpan Catalyst’. Read more »
WAN Boot and ZFS root
Posted by Mark
on March 9, 2009
1 comment
I came across an intriguing problem today whilst trying to rebuild a server. The server was physically located somewhere I couldn’t utilise a boot server, so I decided to quickly throw together a WAN Boot server (which I won’t go into here, but see ref [1] below). Read more »
Installing Catalyst on Solaris 10 using the OS Perl
Posted by Mark
on February 8, 2009
6 comments
I decided to take a look at Catalyst on Solaris. Having done a bit of work with it on Mac OSX, I discovered it wasn’t that easy to get going on Solaris with the stock Perl. Even using cat-install from ShadowCat didn’t render the easy result I’d experienced using MacPorts. After a few hours battling with CPAN, I’ve managed to come up with this list of modules to get Catalyst up and running. Read more »
Setting up iSCSI targets on Solaris
Posted by Mark
on February 3, 2009
7 comments
This example is using snv66 for the target, and Solaris 10u3 for the initiator, as iSCSI target isn’t in Solaris 10u3 (11/06), but is in from u4 (08/07). This should work fine on Solaris 10 u4 and beyond. Read more »