Journey Into OpenIndiana [The Porn Machine. Not CLICKBAIT]

Openindiana is a os built on the illumos based OS this was forked from the OpenSolaris, when Oracle Brought Sun and stopped opensourcing parts of Solaris.

Anyway lets begin.
The Hardware.

IBM/LENOVO USFF PC ( with a few Blown Caps but was $3.50)
- 160 GB HDD
- Core2Duo 1.8Ghz
- 2 GB Ram

We begin By Downloading Hipster Branch of OpenIndiana Found Here

I first tried the DVD image http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/latest//OI-hipster-gui-20161030.iso

Then then proceeded to DD the image, to a 8GB Flash drive( 32GB in this case)

On Fedora i did this

Listed the Drives
"Sudo fdisk -l"

Un-mounted the Drive
umount /dev/sdc
umount /dev/sdc1
umount /dev/sdc2
umount /dev/sdc3

Then DD the Image
cd Downloads
sudo dd bs=4M if=OI-hipster-gui-20161030.iso of=/dev/sdc

So i plug the flash drive in and for the computer to boot and Nothing.
and i try again, nothing. Hummmm me thinks.
Maybe download the image again?
I look at the download page, there something i have missed. I am a Dumbass, how could I be so stupid.
What? there's a USB image.

After waiting another hour for the image, I proceed to reimage the flash drive with the usb image.
DD the Image
sudo dd bs=4M if=OI-hipster-gui-20161030.usb of=/dev/sdc

This time it boots. ;)

*********** Disclaimer Setup is Done in VM as I can't capture a VGA signal *****************


    _______________________________VM Section _________________________________

The Boot Menu

Select Keyboard Layout

Select Language

If all goes well you should see this display, with all the icons, if not sometimes a reboot is required.

Lets Start the Install,

Select the Drive, my is to small for ZFS :(

Select the Time Zone

Select your Language

Add a User and set root password

Summary

Now we Wait.

Let us Pray it works.
In my case it booted.

    _______________________________End VM Section _________________________________
       ____________________________ Real Hardware _____________________________

So what can we do?
Well....... IDK at this point still a noob
Firefox works.

Lets get screenfeach
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/master/screenfetch-dev

Make it exacutable
chmod +x screenfetch-dev

Run it
./screenfetch-dev

Ok that worked :)

Now how do you update this system?
Well OpenIndiana uses PKG to magage the packages.

update the system is sudo pkg update
this may take awhile.

Found some basic functions
Search for Packages
sudo pkg seach -p [package name]

To Install
sudo pkg install [package name]

Still Working though other things, but YouTube works. but the Porn doesn't LOL

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I still need to get the codecs to install but working on that

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nice title

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Hmm.. With the screenfetch thing, doesn't look like /proc is mounted. Put this in your /etc/fstab:
proc /proc procfs rw,noauto 0 0
Then screenfetch should work. Had to do this in FreeBSD to get screenfetch to work.

Anyway, is that mate or gnome 2? since some older OS's still use gnome 2.

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