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Building IPS on Solaris 10

Mark — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:34:29 +0000

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 …

Further Catalyst on Solaris notes

Mark — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:31:38 +0000

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 …

WAN Boot and ZFS root

Mark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:39:56 +0000

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 …

Installing Catalyst on Solaris 10 using the OS Perl

Mark — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:50:21 +0000

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 …

Setting up iSCSI targets on Solaris

Mark — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:06 +0000

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. Many thanks …