Thursday February 21, 2008
Installing OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2
This blog comes to you from a Acer Ferrari laptop running the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 software. Go to the Indiana project page on the OpenSolaris site to learn more about this distribution of OpenSolaris. It uses the Image packaging System(IPS) software to publish, download and manage
packages in the IPS repository. Read more about IPS on the IPS project page on OpenSolaris.
If you would like to try the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2, download it here and burn it on a CD/DVD. This is a LiveCD. Boot from the CD and try it out before you install OpenSolaris on your system.The installation is very simple, see some of the screenshots below.
(To learn how to burn the Preview 2 iso image onto a CD/DVD from a laptop, see my previous blog "Copying an iso image to a CD from Solaris".)
If you had installed the Preview 1 release and would like to update your system, the update instructions are available here.
Try it out and let us know your thoughts and comments.
Posted at 09:47AM Feb 21, 2008 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun |
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