<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dennis Clarke</b> <<a href="mailto:dclarke@blastwave.org">dclarke@blastwave.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> On 9/11/07, George Wyche <<a href="mailto:gwyche@io.com">gwyche@io.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> @Tracey<br>>> > That was my other question. Does it make sense to have 2 copies of<br>>> gnome.
<br>>> > I'm just trying to understand if it's needed. I come from linux<br>>> background<br>>> > and understand the dependencies situation. I'm pretty new to solaris and<br>>> > would like to know what the proper build procedure for solaris 10 while
<br>>> > getting the nice packages from blastwave. Blastwave seems like the only<br>>> > decent place that has the best packages available for Solaris that I am<br>>> > use<br>>> > to using. Thanks.
<br>>> ><br>>> > Tracey Flanders<br>>><br>>> Well. I have now installed Solaris10 8/07 4 times and I have some advice.<br>>> Get rid of the Solaris packages AFTER you install. Figure out, which I
<br>>> haven't done, how to get Solaris OS to embrace the /opt/csw tree.<br>>><br>>> #1 build: I did custom and left out Gnome, thinking to use Blastwave. Doh!<br>>> The first time I tried to log in the login screens would not complete...
<br>>> Needed Gnome. Don't have it yet. I continued as console root and installed<br>>> my blastwave packages and *tried* to get the PATH to include /opt/csw, et<br>>> cetera, but obviously failed. Login screens acted just the same.
<br>>><br>>> #2 build: Did upgrade, thinking to pick up Gnome from Sun. Failed. No<br>>> change.<br>>><br>>> #3 build: Let Sun have their way... Bog standard install. (Just love the<br>>> UK-ism.) Login worked! Did blastwave packages. FAILED! Out of space! Doh!
<br>>> The partitioning was, let us say, inconvenient.<br>>><br>>> #4 build: Custom install. Followed Dennis' Solaris10 11/06 install (even<br>>> though I use Sparc). Then (after some internet connectivity issues) loaded
<br>>> on blastwave packages. SUCCESS.<br>>><br>>> George Wyche<br>><br>><br>> I never read that before, thanks! I just assumed he did a standard install.<br>> That's what I get to assuming.
<br><br>Just want to let you all know that I *know* that I need to updtae my docs on<br>Blastwave and ensure that people can go ahead with either x86 or Sparc with<br>Solaris 10 Update 4 or snv_70b ( SXDE ) and also get GNOME or XFCE or KDE
<br>from Blastwave running neatly.<br><br>It is not obvious that you need to look at the PATH in /etc/default/login or<br>a few other little things.</blockquote><div><br>I found the docs were just fine. Keep up the good work.
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