see source document : OpenSolaris MailList for Indiana-discuss posting Received: from oss-mail1.opensolaris.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.opensolaris.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6711227D2; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:55:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:54:43 +1300 From: Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster@Sun.COM> To: OpenSolaris Announce <opensolaris-announce@opensolaris.org>, Indiana Discuss <indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org>, advocacy-discuss@opensolaris.org, Open Solaris <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> Message-id: <47B24DE3.60102@sun.com> Subject: [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available Reply-To: Indiana Discuss <indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 88 I'm pleased to announce that OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 is now available for your download pleasure - http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview2.iso This is an x86-based LiveCD install image, containing some new and emerging OpenSolaris technologies and should be considered a developer preview only. Among the spiffy features contained in this release are o Based on Nevada build 79b o pkg(1) improvements, including progress reporting, verification support and incremental catalog update o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default user shell) o Introduction of /usr/has/bin (experimental!), with /usr/bin/vi now linking to vim by default o Addition of several new packages on http://pkg.opensolaris.org, including OpenOffice v2.3.1 o JRE included by default on the LiveCD o The following set of drivers have been included in the LiveCD NVIDIA Graphics System Software (nvidia) ADMtek Ethernet Driver (afe) AMD8111 Fast Ethernet Driver (amd8111s) Davicom 9102 Fast Ethernet Driver (dmfe) Macronix Fast Ethernet Driver (mxfe) Nvidia ck804 pro / mcp55 pro combo SATA driver (nvsata) Sun NIU leaf driver (nxge) Ralink RT2500 802.11b/g Wireless Driver (ralink) realtek 8180L 802.11b driver (rtw) USB Keyspan serial driver (usbsksp) o Many bug fixes! For a complete (unchecked) list, see http://tinyurl.com/2a4pzw For more details about the system requirements along with some basic user documentation, see - http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/ and the release notes http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn2/ This preview would not be possible without the hard work of the people who have contributed to its success, including the Caiman, IPS, Modernization, Desktop, FOX and project management teams, along with the many people who have provided feedback on their experiences with the first developer preview. Thank you all! Report Bugs =========== We are very interested in hearing feedback about your experiences with this release. In particular, if you have issues installing on your hardware we would love to know. If you would like to provide feedback, see our bug reporting page for details on how to do that - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/reporting_bugs/ About Project Indiana ===================== Project Indiana is working towards creating a binary distribution of an operating system built out of the OpenSolaris source code. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on OpenSolaris.org, including those to make the installation experience easier, to modernize the look and feel of OpenSolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a network-based package management system into Solaris. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/ Glynn

You will need a computer that can burn and ISO-9660 filesystem image. Personally I just use the latest Solaris Express Developers Edition because it is a free download and does just about everything :
# uname -a SunOS titan 5.11 snv_79a i86pc i386 i86pc You need to have that file downloaded already : # ls -lap total 3015732 drwxr-x--- 2 dclarke csw 512 Feb 13 03:56 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root sys 512 Feb 9 15:15 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865673216 Feb 9 15:47 SchilliX-0.6.2-pre.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677595136 Feb 12 18:38 in-preview2.iso Be sure to check that the md5 hash sig is correct : # digest -v -a md5 in-preview2.iso md5 (in-preview2.iso) = 434b1a60c7b7dbf673b89aa41cae3148 Burn it with cdrecord ( or whatever you have - like cdrw etc. ) # /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -v -dev=0,0,0 -driveropts=burnfree -dao in-preview2.iso Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a37 (i386-pc-solaris2.8) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Jvrg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using USCSI interface. Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Driveropts: 'burnfree' SCSI buffer size: 57344 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-820A ' Revision : '1.0b' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording (current) Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite (current) Profile: DVD-RAM Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: Removable Disk Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP Drive buf size : 1179648 = 1152 KB FIFO size : 33554432 = 32768 KB Track 01: data 646 MB Total size: 646 MB = 330857 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 Blocks total: 715056 Blocks current: 715056 Blocks remaining: 384199 Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 2 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 646 of 646 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 2.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 677595136/677595136 (330857 sectors). Writing time: 269.731s Average write speed 1.8x. Min drive buffer fill was 19% Fixating... Fixating time: 192.666s /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 11817 puts and 11817 gets. /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 7588 times full, min fill was 98%. When the burn completes feel free to mount that newly created HSFS filesystem media : # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt # ls -lap /mnt total 1192118 drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 5 22:17 ./ drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 512 Jan 25 21:58 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Feb 5 22:17 .catalog drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 2048 Feb 5 21:59 .cdrom/ -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 1002562 Feb 5 22:00 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40182806 Feb 5 22:13 archive.bz2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 5 21:57 bin -> ./usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 2048 Feb 5 22:14 boot/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root sys 4096 Feb 5 22:00 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 2048 Feb 5 21:56 devices/ drwxr-xr-x 5 65432 staff 2048 Feb 5 22:00 jack/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 2048 Feb 5 21:59 mnt/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 2048 Feb 5 21:59 platform/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Feb 5 21:56 proc/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 21:59 reconfigure -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 212 Feb 5 22:00 release_notes.txt drwx------ 2 root root 2048 Feb 5 21:56 root/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 8192 Feb 5 22:00 sbin/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 552177152 Feb 5 22:17 solaris.zlib -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16960000 Feb 5 22:17 solarismisc.zlib drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Feb 5 21:56 system/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root sys 2048 Feb 5 22:11 tmp/ Now unmount it and boot it ! # umount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0