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April 16, 2009

Home No-Network needed OpenSolaris Live-CD IPS REPO full mirror

Filed under: best_practices, ips, opensolaris, Virtualization, virtual_appliances — natiku @ 11:34 am

One time my child was sick I need to work from home for longer time, unfortunately I was in this time assigned to project required a IPS repository access.
My network a home is not enough stable to use IPS remote mirror, so I as workaround use this script to create:

Home No-Network needed OpenSolaris Live-CD IPS REPO full mirror

I think you can find this approach and script helpful in home Virtual Appliances prototyping.

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May 22, 2008

Get & Inst: Net based install of IPS packages into OpenSolaris 2008.05

Filed under: amazon_aws, cloud, glassfish, ips, opensolaris, Virtualization — natiku @ 5:28 am

In fact this an another example how composite image can be created, this time I will use IPS net based install from default OpenSolaris repository.

This entry is part of ‘OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2′ workshop

New IPS packaging system

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May 5, 2008

Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or Indiana

Filed under: amazon_aws, cloud, ips, opensolaris, pkg, Virtualization — natiku @ 6:01 am

New SUN IPS packaging with network based repositories simplify installation of third-party SW to OpenSolaris or Indiana, you don’t need any more to deal with Companion CD or manual packages + dependencies download, install. Great !

This entry is part of ‘OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2′ Workshop
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