SPARC Live CD?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:20 am, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Ah, not using ps -ef?  /usr/ucb/ps instead of /bin/ps.  I bet you want
> the BSD ls behavior too?  /usr/ucb/ls.  Probably some others in
> /usr/ucb too.
>
> Hmm, tar isn't gnutar.  I think gzip is in Solaris 7.  SSH is not.
>
> For gnu stuff and other OSS stuff. http://www.sunfreeware.com has
> packages for /usr/local
>
> Solaris could really use something like apt or yum.


Well, it looks like this is the road I'll go now... I downloaded marTux - the 
only OpenSolaris LiveCD for Sparc I found and I can't even figure out how to 
burn the ISO.  k3b says it's not an iso9660 image, outright.  `file` says 
it's a Sun disk label.  There's a readme that talks about block sizes and 
such being different for Sun boxes and PC boxes and having to rejumper the 
Sun drives for PC block sizes or some such.  

And I just thought it'd be fun to play with a new Live CD distro and would be 
more trouble than it's worth to install new stuff.  Apparently, I was wrong.
-N