Adding drivers/binaries to your EON ZFS NAS presents a bit of challenge as it requires acquiring the matching SNV_xxx DVD to source the package. There is an alternative called the
image packaging system. This is basically Sun's network packaging system similar to apt, RPM in Linux. I've assumed here that the network card is fully functional and internet connectivity, is working.
So assuming your nic works, a wide array of options become available with the help of
IPS. This may be useful to add or run certain binaries such as unzip, ipmitool, powertop, openssl, pmconfig, etc. So how do we add
pkg and other
IPS goodies? First we download the
pre-installed toolkit here.
Then, unzip it to a smb/cifs share somewhere on a storage pool (this example unzipped to /deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386). Now let's create the packaging db in /deep/ips
mkdir -p /deep/ips
cd /deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386/pkg/bin
./pkg image-create -F -a opensolaris.org=http://pkg.opensolaris.org /deep/ips
After this completes, we are ready to add packages to the /deep/ips repositories. Note, I am not adding the packages to / (root). This would store the downloaded binaries in RAM and reduce the available memory and most likely cause a crash of the OS. It would also not survive a reboot. So for now, let's use a local repository /deep/ips and lets add unzip. First, I need to know which package unzip, is a part off. So, let's try to find that
cd /deep/ips
/deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386/pkg/bin/pkg search -r unzip
INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE
basename file usr/bin/unzip pkg:/SUNWunzip@5.53.7-0.101
basename file usr/bin/unzip pkg:/SUNWunzip@5.53.7-0.96
basename file usr/bin/unzip pkg:/SUNWunzip@5.52-0.75
We see the package name is SUNWunzip as well as the versions available at the repository (5.52, 5.53). Let's give it a dry run without installing to see dependencies. Still in /deep/ips
/deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386/pkg/bin/pkg install -nv SUNWunzip
And to install it and all its listed dependencies in /deep/ips
/deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386/pkg/bin/pkg install -v SUNWunzip
This can also be used for drivers, for example the sil 3124 sata chipset driver
/deep/pkg-toolkit-sunos-i386/pkg/bin/pkg search -r 3124
INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE
description set 3124 pkg:/SUNWsi3124@0.5.11-0.101
description set 3124 pkg:/SUNWsi3124@0.5.11-0.75
description set 3124 pkg:/SUNWsi3124@0.5.11-0.89
Then, simply adding this SUNWsi3124 or specifically SUNWsi3124@0.5.11-0.101 will get us the driver. One thing I note is the package naming varies slightly to the
opensolaris DVD package names. I also could not locate packages SUNWzfsgu, SUNWzfsgr and SUNWmconr to attempt adding the ZFS smcwebserver GUI/BUI administration interface. Some cool
pkg usage techniques can be found
here at the
observatory blog. A cool
Hello World example.
