Sun finally put up details about their “Free Ultra 20 with a three-year service/support contract at $29.95/month” offer.
It’s not actually $29.95/month. It’s “three yearly installments of $359.40″.
Since I don’t have $359.40 free right now to blow on something like this (I *did* have $29.95), it will have to wait. 8-(
The $20 2-port PCI USB 2.0 controller I picked up from CompUSA works fine without any configuration at all in my Ultra 60, under either Solaris Express or the latest OpenSolaris build:
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.notice] PCI-device: usb@5,3, ehci0
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] ehci0 is /pci@1f,4000/usb@5,3
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.notice] PCI-device: usb@5, ohci0
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] ohci0 is /pci@1f,4000/usb@5
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.notice] PCI-device: usb@5,1, ohci1
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] ohci1 is /pci@1f,4000/usb@5,1
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford pcipsy: [ID 370704 kern.notice] PCI-device: usb@5,2, ohci2
Jun 21 15:34:23 bradford genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] ohci2 is /pci@1f,4000/usb@5,2
Jun 21 15:34:24 bradford usba: [ID 912658 kern.notice] USB 2.0 device (usb46d,c03d) operating at low speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: mouse@2, hid0 at bus address 2
Jun 21 15:34:24 bradford usba: [ID 349649 kern.notice] Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
Jun 21 15:34:24 bradford genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] hid0 is /pci@1f,4000/usb@5,2/mouse@2
Jun 21 15:34:24 bradford genunix: [ID 408114 kern.notice] /pci@1f,4000/usb@5,2/mouse@2 (hid0) online
I’ve been really busy at work the past week, but I finally had time to do a full build of the public OpenSolaris release:
root@bradford:/> cat /etc/motd Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 mrbill Jun. 21, 2005 SunOS Internal Development: root 2005-06-21 [mrbill] bfu'ed from /opensolaris/mrbill/archives/sparc/nightly on 2005-06-21 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_16 October 2007 root@bradford:/> uname -a SunOS bradford 5.11 mrbill sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
I’ve been a member of the OpenSolaris pilot team for the past six months, and I’m proud to announce that OpenSolaris is now ready for business, with source code ready for download. I’ve setup a SunHELP OpenSolaris page with links to more information and resources.
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10.1 mrbill May. 06, 2005 SunOS Internal Development: root 2005-05-06 [mrbill] bfu'ed from /opensolaris/build/archives/sparc/nightly on 2005-05-09 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10.1 snv_10 October 2007
This time it was snv_13 compiling itself.
Took an hour and 13 minutes longer than Solaris Express 4/05 did, for some reason.
root@bradford:/> uname -a SunOS bradford 5.10.1 build sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 root@bradford:/> cat /etc/motd Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10.1 build May. 06, 2005 SunOS Internal Development: root 2005-05-06 [build] bfu'ed from /opensolaris/build/archives/sparc/nightly on 2005-05-06 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10.1 snv_10 October 2007
I only borked one thing during the build/install, but it was easy enough to fix by booting to single-user mode off a CD-ROM and editing files by hand.
==== Nightly distributed build completed: Fri May 6 14:03:29 CDT 2005 ==== ==== Total build time ==== real 4:00:59
This is on an Ultra 60 with dual 450Mhz CPUs and 2G of RAM. Base OS is Solaris Express 4/05.
After getting the Ultra 60 setup with Solaris Express 4/05, I’m now in love with Solaris Zones.
root@bradford:/> zoneadm list -vc ID NAME STATUS PATH 0 global running / 1 bradford2 running /zone/bradford2 3 bradford3 running /zone/bradford3
The global zone is using DNS. The “bradford2″ zone is using NIS, and the “bradford3″ zone is using LDAP authentication. I’ll be setting up a “bradford4″ zone to run a LDAP-to-NIS gateway (PADL’s ypldapd) in for final testing before I put it in a production environment.
This is so nice - no more stacks of machines! If I need another “system”, I just create another zone and fire it up.
I wonder if I can have the global zone running Solaris Express and another zone doing OpenSolaris compiles and tests…
Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.31, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #11203763.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:aa:f4:b3, Host ID: 80aaf4b3.
It will be my OpenSolaris and LDAP test box, and possibly a Directory Server work environment.
