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The Schillix 0.1 OpenSolaris based Life CD

Joerg Schilling has created a version of OpenSolaris. Sunfreeware.com will be mirroring his efforts. The README file is included below. The main site is at http://schillix.berlios.de/. Report any problems or work you do back to that site or see OpenSolaris.org and the discussion groups there. The files are at

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/opensolaris/schillix

but since the bzipped iso file is quite large, you may want to use the faster mirror site at

ftp://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.org/pub/sunfreeware/opensolaris/schillix

or one of the other mirror sites.


README

		This is SchilliX-0.1

SchilliX is an OpenSolaris based UNIX Life CD and distribution 
for X86, AMD64 and EM64T.
The current release is based on Solaris 11 (Nevada) Build 17+.

	NOTE: The CD boot does not change anything on your hard disk!

To create a bootable CD do the following:

1)	load the ISO image:

	# wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/schillix-0.1.iso.bz2

2)	unpack the ISO:

	# bzip2 -d schillix-0.1.iso.bz2

3)	Write the CD:

	# cdrecord dev=b,t,l -v -dao schillix-0.1.iso

4)	Boot the CD...

The following boot options exist:

-	SchilliX CD boot Full Deutsch     (needs 256 MB RAM)

	A 60 MB Ramdisk with / is loaded and /usr is mounted 
	from CD later. This needs ~ 256MB RAM in your PC and 
	is a bit slow in start up.

-	SchilliX CD boot ramd only Deutsch (needs 512 MB RAM)

	A 175 MB Ramdisk with the full FS is loaded.
	This needs ~ 512 MB RAM in your PC and is faster.

-	Memtest X86

	Load Memtest-86 v3.2

If you like a different KBD layout, edit the grub command line and
modify the "-B kbd-type=German" boot option.

After you did boot, login as user "root".

If you like to compile directly on the Life CD, do the following:

-	Call mkdir /opt/gcc-3.4.3

-	Call mount -F lofs -O /.cdrom/opt/gcc-3.4.3 /opt/gcc-3.4.3

-	Add /usr/sps/bin, /usr/sfw/bin and /usr/ccs/bin to your PATH

-	Enjoy compiling.....


Known Bugs:

-	In single user mode, the Keyboard mapping is not set up.

	Workaround: type	/lib/svc/method/keymap
	or type			svcadm enable keymap

-	Does not boot on amd64.
	This seems to be a result of the missing amd64 kernel binaries
	(doe to space optimizations in the RAM disk) it may help to
	modify the GRUB command line:

	kernel /boot/grub/multiboot kmdb -v -B kbd-type=German

	to something like:

	kernel /boot/grub/multiboot kernel/unix -v -B kbd-type=German

	To do this, type 'e' on the Grub menu line you like to use,
	-> again, type 'e' on the second option (second menu: kernel ..)
	replace "kmdb" with " kernel/unix ". Type , then type 'b'.



The following patches are applied, see ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches/
for the exact modifications made:

-	acpica.c AcpiTerminate() panic() problem with
	non ACPI PCs 

-	cfgadm did mot find it's libs when a 64 bit kernel was running

-	lseek(f, off, SEEK_HOLE) returns more orthogonal error codes

-	lseek(f, -1, SEEK_HOLE) did cause a kernel panic

-	grub netboot did truncate DHCP packet


MD 5 Sums:

1fb18833f5bfd1fd08c383a1a56945e0  README.install
b9e1d6dea0609e34feed2f3c2a5c099c  schillix-0.1.iso.bz2