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By Clay on August 5, 2010
Oh, how I knew System V packages… Back in the bad old days before ON and slim_source had moved to building only IPS packages, one could pkgadd -d <location> SUNW<package> and easily drop their test code on a machine. Now with the move to IPS packages getting the test code to a machine can be […]
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By Clay on March 9, 2010
Ever wonder what all the OpenSolaris Automated Installer does and where all the configuration data comes from when net booting an X86 and installing to it?
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By Clay on March 6, 2010
How to edit Automated Installer manifests with NetBeans to gain validation of and documentation on the XML in an AI manifest
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By Clay on February 15, 2010
How to configure the OpenSolaris Automated Installer with the ISC DHCP server
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By Clay on February 11, 2010
Interesting Mercurial learnings for the slim_source gatelings
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By Clay on October 26, 2008
A question I get asked often is, “How do I create OpenSolaris USB sticks?” Well, it’s super simple, here’s how…
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By Clay on March 13, 2008
Trying to run fdisk(1) and not quite sure how to invoke it? Here’s a simple graphical launcher.
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By Clay on February 7, 2008
I’ve found a lot of people are excited by the Lempel-Ziv-Markov-Algorithm, and many are playing with it through the 7-Zip archiver, however, it seems there’s some confusion about where one ends and the other starts. I hope to explain my understanding of the two for those who are interested, and to ensure I understand it coherently as well!
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By Clay on February 6, 2008
Once the mighty end-all of patch checking, a very useful command showing ELF information, and a convenient way of getting a system’s OpenWindows version, now just a small shell script: showrev(1M).
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