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20081210 Wednesday December 10, 2008

2008.11: More ways to get it, and more ways to share it

As I did for 2008.05, I'll collect links to mirror sites here. These will also get links on the various download pages out there.

Construction of 2008.11 was faster, more efficient, and generally more predictable than 2008.05. Image packaging, snap upgrade, and the distribution constructor—and the notorious distro importer—saw many fixes and features that resulted in the ability to rapidly turn out corrected images and packages. As problems were found during testing, we could spin up new test variants in hours or less. (Thus, the existance of RC1.5, which we were able to inject into the schedule because of this newfound speed. Dave's written more about the constructor.) You can get the ISO image, suitable for burning to a 700 MiB CD or immediate use in virtual environment, directly from the following locations:

As Glynn notes, we've set up anonymous rsync to make acquiring and mirroring the ISO images. In addition, I've posted draft instructions on how to be a content mirror for pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. We've tested the pkg(5) content mirroring, as well as the rsync service, but would be happy to get feedback on pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org.

These links either take you to the site's page or directly to the osol-0811.iso CD image, which contains 11 "primary languages". It installs quite a bit faster, particularly on systems with slower CPUs. There is also an LZMA-compressed image, which has localization support for 42 languages, including those primary ones. It's available from dlc.sun.com, genunix.org, and as a torrent. (Consult the language lists for specifics.)

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(2008-12-10 00:01:09.0) Permalink Comments [7]
Comments:

Where can I find more information about the distro importer...thanks!

Posted by m on December 10, 2008 at 02:57 AM PST #

Hi Steven,

Your first link seems to be off, it probably should be:

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/opensolaris/2008/11/osol-0811.iso

(i.e., the file name should not be osol-200811.iso, but osol-0811.iso )

Posted by W. Wayne Liauh on December 10, 2008 at 03:00 AM PST #

@m: The install community on opensolaris.org. I'll make a direct link in the article shortly.

@W. Wayne Liauh: Thanks! (Very embarrassing.)

Posted by Stephen Hahn on December 10, 2008 at 07:57 AM PST #

Mirror sites I know about so far -

http://iso.zagbot.com/opensolaris/
(thanks to Lyndsay Roger)

http://opensolaris.linuxfreedom.com/
(thanks to Jonathan from linuxfreedom.com)

http://opensolaris.fastbull.org/
rsync://ftp.surfnet.nl/opensolaris
(thanks to Rodolfo Boraso)

http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/opensolaris/
rsync://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/opensolaris/
(thanks to Matt Whiteley)

Posted by Glynn Foster on December 10, 2008 at 10:55 AM PST #

http://lifewithsolaris.jp/uploads/iso/opensolaris/
thanks to Shunsuke from lifewithsolaris.jp

Posted by Glynn Foster on December 10, 2008 at 08:32 PM PST #

you said "I've posted draft instructions on how to be a content mirror for pkg.opensolaris.org/dev."
how can i do the same for release repository?
pfexec /usr/bin/rsync -a pkg.opensolaris.org::osol_release_files /var/tmp/pkg/file
@ERROR: Unknown module 'osol_release_files'

Posted by gerard on December 12, 2008 at 11:15 PM PST #

@gerard: At present, release/ and dev/ are the same, so content mirroring dev/ is equivalent. If the two do deviate, we'll work out how the mirroring should operate--it's actually okay to merge content mirrors into a single file tree.

Posted by Stephen Hahn on December 15, 2008 at 09:29 AM PST #

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