Vitório Sassi

OpenSolaris preview

Everybody was waiting for the Indiana that will launch in May 5. Until this day we have the RC to test the new features and saw the look and feel of the system. Today I read the instructions of Rafael Vanoni and try to use this preview in a USB stick.
First I download the iso image in a torrent file, and here I just impressed because there are a lot of seeders on the net. So it's too fast download the file. Donwload files in torrent it's simple ok, I know. My problems started when I try to burn the image in my USB stick. I have this error:

bash-3.2$ distro_constructor/tools/usbgen 0805rc2a.iso usb.iso /tmp/
distro_constructor/tools/usbgen: line 43: lofiadm: command not found


I simple talk with my mentor and he said: "look your path"
My path are ok, but if I navigate until the directory and run ./usbgen the command running without problems. Sometimes I don't have the answers...

After that I boot the new OpenSolaris or Indiana (choose your name), and I really like that I saw. The look of the system are very, very cool. The default username used is "jack", the name of OpenSolaris mascot. But in Brazil it's difficult to find a guy to know who is jack The best tool in my opinion is the "Device Driver Utility". Actually we heard a lot of people how said that OpenSolaris have problems with device driver. I guess this problem was solved with this utility.
So... let's waiting for the May 5.
Some screenshots



The desktop with a terminal, look at the username



The Device Driver Utility

Posted at 09:53PM Abr 27, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun  |  Comments[0]