Thursday, June 21, 2007

Hello World to Tinderbox...

--by
sp2hari (Harishankaran)

Installed solaris neveda_55 finally. Configured network after struggling a little bit. Had to install new softwares. Taggy gave me the this link. And this one was also very useful. So within a matter of 5 mins, i installed most of the softwares i might need.

As such i had three main things to do in Solaris according to the mail Emily Chen sent me. They are

1. Read about tinderbox setup from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox/ .

2. Sun Studio 11
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/products/previous/11/index.jsp
On Solaris, Sun Studio is used to build Firefox, not gcc, so have to install Sun Studio.

3. Set up CBE (Common Build Environment)
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/


Still network configuration has few glitches. I have to enter the DNS entries every time i reboot the system. And even though i have configured it to activate on boot, the Ethernet card has to manually activated after every time. This is strange since, i have a file called hostname.rtls0 in / (which should activate the Ethernet card on boot )

Anyways now it is time to say Hello World to Tinderbox :P.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it's just a typo in your blog post, but the hostname.rtls0 file should go in /etc, not /.

Harishankaran said...

hey it is / :(
maybe that's why it is not working. Will try copying the file to /etc