{"id":983,"date":"2009-04-05T23:01:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=983"},"modified":"2009-04-05T23:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T22:01:02","slug":"a-different-thing-in-a-real-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"A different thing in a real OS."},"content":{"rendered":"

Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris<\/a> installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get working wasn’t, the ZFS<\/a> snapshot system kept failing into maintenance mode and the NetBeans IDE that I installed disappeared. Perhaps living in a windows world tainted me but in my ignorance, I recognized my lack of understanding and started Googling. <\/p>\n

Sometimes panic can instill reason, and so with some illustrations and illumination from the OpenSolaris.org site, I discovered that the issue was the multiple packages that I had been downloading. The ZFS file system had been doing boot snapshots and I was rebooting into one of many boot ‘pools’ that were ‘confusing’ the system, when I was shown the tool for selecting the correct boot environment, and deleting the others, everything became stable. The sound works, the tools were there and it all works. <\/p>\n

One note, the ZFS file system in OpenSolaris will surprise you, it takes a ‘snapshot’ of the ‘partitions’ you choose, and performs a type of backup journal of all the files there. Given that, the file manager, using a slide bar, allows you to ‘time slide’ the directory through the entire snapshot history to display the changes that have happened. Very interesting, but it takes a bit of getting used to. I have ‘time machine<\/a>‘ on my Mac, though I have not used it, so I suspect this behaves in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n

There was one issue, of course created by myself, in and effort to get video on the system I purchased a Logitech 3500<\/a> video class webcam with built-in Mike. And while the Ekiga VoIP and video conferencing application <\/a> could detect and use the video from the camera, the built-in mike would kill the sound system. So I’m operating without the camera, hoping for a bugfix. <\/p>\n

The conclusion, more or less, is that the fixes I perform, did not require a drastic rebuild and the loss of my work. Only some understanding, and some learning on my part. Learning about how a real OS operates, and protects itself. Something toy OS’s from the past have made us all believe don’t exist. <\/p>\n

Time to learn that something old, is new again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get…<\/span><\/p>\n

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