SPARC Live CD?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:23 pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> writes:
> > Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line utilities,
> > it'd sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.
>
> I'm curious what you mean by "painfully lacking modern command line
> utilities".  What more do you need than various combinations of:
>
>  - find
>  - file
>  - xargs
>  - (ef)grep
>  - sed
>  - awk
>  - perl
>  - more or less
>  - and the standard things like cd, ls, cp, mv, tar, etc.
>
> ?
>
> I really can't see what more you'd need to simply determine whether or
> not a given file is valuable or not.  Am I missing something?

As I said in other message, it's just annoying that the utilities are 
'different' - I'm used to Linux far more than Solaris.  When I type ps, I 
expect following it with aux will give me lots of good info.  With Solaris, 
it's ps -ef.

When I am tarballing up a directory and type tar cfvz _tarball_ _stuff_, I get 
an error because gzip isn't included.  I wouldn't even imagine of trying 
bzip2 instead.

It's a matter of familiarity - I seem to have rubbed a few Solaris fans the 
wrong way perhaps.  I can check the man pages and relearn command line 
arguments and I can search the various paths for files that aren't in my 
working path for one reason or another (though not with locate because that's 
not there).  And I know I can install this software if I want - I can find 
it, pkg_add or source-compile it relatively easily.

But let me reiterate - I just want to quickly go around the filesystem, find 
potentially interesting data, tarball it up, and store it away for future 
analysis so I can wipe the machine for now and start putting it to use.  A 
Live CD, especially with Linux would have been helpful, but I'm getting along 
with what I know just fine.
-N