{"id":295,"date":"2009-03-09T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2009-03-09T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T00:10:28","slug":"opensolaris-200811-acer-aspire-one-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/opensolaris-200811-acer-aspire-one-install\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSolaris 2008.11 Acer Aspire One Install"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-299\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"innomat_os_blu_180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/innomat_os_blu_180.png\" alt=\"innomat_os_blu_180\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After my <a title=\"SXCE Install\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/?p=268\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> about installing Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) on my Aspire One, I decided to give the Indiana 2008.11 release a try. The community edition was working fine, but I wanted to play around with IPS which I had trouble making work on SXCE, and also I just wanted a Gnome base install and the opportunity to see how 2008.11 installed and worked on the Aspire One.<\/p>\n<p>The install is of moderate difficulty (easy of course once you have done it.) There are a few speeds bumps you may hit however and so I wrote <a title=\"OpenSolaris Install How To\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/wiki\/index.php\/OpenSolaris_Indiana_2008.11_Acer_Aspire_One_Install\" target=\"_blank\">this how to<\/a>. This takes you step by step through installing OpenSolaris and you will end up sporting Solaris on your Aspire One. Compiz, ZFS, TimeSlider, DTrace, and working wifi are all your&#8217;s to be had.<\/p>\n<p>+5 Geek Bonus to any who complete this quest, so saddle up, burn that .iso and start your quest.<\/p>\n<p>One particulary fun thing to do is try a remote install from another system by X Forwarding the GUI Installer. That was kind of fun. (Screenshot of this to come.)<\/p>\n<p>When the 2009.06 release is out I may attempt to use the Solaris Distribution Creator and make an .iso of an Aspire One Image that is ready to roll and put it up on bit torrent.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to test drive OpenSolaris, and hope you find the guide usefull. Please leave feedback on how it goes and I&#8217;ll try to help &#8211; if I can (I&#8217;m a Linux guy and still pretty new to Solaris). Also, do check out Dave Clack&#8217;s <a title=\"Dave Clack's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/oslab\/category\/AA1\" target=\"_blank\">excellent blog<\/a>. Dave has worked with the Sun engineers helping to bring us driver support for the Aspire One and helped me with with my SXCE issues.<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to thank Aaron Houston (Sun: Menlo Park) for hooking me up with some OpenSolaris advocacy materials &#8211; including a great device driver guide, some metallic &#8220;Powered by OpenSolaris&#8221; stickers and other goodies &#8211; another post to come on that.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my previous post about installing Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) on my Aspire One, I decided to give the Indiana 2008.11 release a try. The community edition was working fine, but I wanted to play around with IPS which I had trouble making work on SXCE, and also I just wanted a Gnome base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-adventures","category-netbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}