For some time I've been wanting to install opensolaris.

I have messed around with schillix, belenix and nexenta but have run into problems.

Some months back I had a spare x86_64 / 512 MB RAM laptop, and I tried the 2008.11 opernsolaris live CD on it. IT was murder ... that RAM is just too low. I mean, it _would_ run .. but it was soooo slow, and churned the hell out of the CD.

Anyhow, a spare 2GB dual core desktop came up, and decided to not lose hope and try opensolaris live CD on it. THis time, I did get installed onto HD.

Happily, it also had the sshd daemon on by default so I could use ssh to access it. <that was the one happy moment>

However, as any multi-distro installer knows, that's only the beginning.

Now the title of my post is a little provocation. But when I ask about beast, I was thinking about Barack Obama's car .. which is called the Beast. As a linux user, opensolaris is posing quite a few challenges.

Anyhow, I hjave read up a little and am undertsnading about this "roles" thing, and how I shoulduse pfexec instead of sudo etc. But I do have a question, believe or not. On my home LAN i have ssh access to the opensolaris machine. That home LAN is connected to the internet, and yet the opensooaris machine does not have access to internet.

it's as if I need to execute the "route" command on it. Does anybody know how I may sort that out?

Whn I say "know" I am not asking for the exact answer but maybe any links somevbody has foudn useful for my type of situation

Many thanks!

Your opensolaris box should have been automatically configured to access the Internet by your dhcp server.

What says:

ifconfig -a
netstat -rn
grep "^hosts:" /etc/nsswitch.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf