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Get: VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
Get: VBoz.zip

Unzip and RENAME python-lib-3.1.8.tar.bz2 TO python-lib.tar.bz2

Put everything in the same dir.

VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
solaris-lib.tar.bz2
sunwvbox-1.0-20100217.diff.gz
python-lib.tar.bz2

And now:

# add required packages
aptitude install alien g11n-minimal-uiu8 lib64gcc1 lib64stdc++6 lib64z1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libice6 libpng12-0 libsm6 libstdc++6 libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxmuu1 libxrender1 python python-dev sunwcsl sunwcslr sunwlibm zlib1g

# untar & prepare VirtualBox
tar -xzf VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-SunOS.tar.gz
alien -d -s -c --reloc_root=/ VirtualBox-3.1.6-SunOS-r59338.pkg

# patch it
gzip -d -c sunwvbox-1.0-20100217.diff.gz | patch -p0

# build it
cd sunwvbox-1.0
./debian/rules binary

# install the .deb package
cd ..
dpkg -i sunwvbox_1.0-1_solaris-i386.deb

That’s it! Many thanks to Ernst Gill!

SOURCES:
http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/142

Install required packages

aptitude install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool

Install libevent

wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
./configure
make && make install

Install Transmission

wget http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-2.01.tar.bz2
tar -xjf transmission-2.01.tar.bz2
cd transmission-2.01
./configure LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -levent"
make && make install

I’m writing a note to myself as I don’t have a UPS yet :)

The Port value can be set to “auto” as metionned here: http://jonathanbrown.me/my-freenas-project-part-5-the-config

Found another rerefence that confirms this:
- For newhidups: “auto” or whatever value as newhidups automagically probe for USB UPS.

SOURCE: http://people.freebsd.org/~thierry/nut_FreeBSD_HowTo.txt

Given that I spent time and money on my FeeNAS node, I want to maximize its usage, so when a friend told me that I can use PXE and NFS to boot a diskless computer from the network, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try somehing new and activate some more services under FreeNAS!

This script will start a scrub on each ZFS pool (one at a time) and will send an e-mail or display the result when everyting is completed. I wrote this script to launch each scrub one after the other and a summary by e-mail that can tell me how much time it took to each ZFS scrub.

wget

To install wget on a “data” parition:

export PKG_TMPDIR=/mnt/usb-data/temp
pkg_add -r wget -P /mnt/usb-data/pkg

Now we need a script to create the symlinks to the wget binaries in the “pkg” directory:

nano /mnt/usb-data/hooks.sh

Here’s the content:

#!/bin/sh

ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/bin/wget /bin/wget

Now make it run at boot time, go in System —> Advanced —> Command scripts and enter:

/mnt/usb-data/hooks.sh

Select PostInit and that’s it! Everytime you reboot your FreeNAS server the symlinks will be re-created!

bash

For bash, add this in the “hooks.sh” script:

# .bashrc for root
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/bashrc /root/.bashrc

# .bashrc for regular user
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/bashrc /mnt/.bashrc

# automatically load bash for root on login (not clean but works)
echo "bash --init-file /mnt/usb-data/bashrc" >> /root/.cshrc

# automatically load bash for regular user on login (not clean but works)
echo "bash --init-file /mnt/usb-data/bashrc" >> /mnt/.cshrc

You need an embedded install with a data partition. My FreeNAS server runs from a 1GB usb stick and the data partition is mounted as “/mnt/usb-data”. To install Vim on the usb stick:

# using csh
setenv PKG_TMPDIR /mnt/usb-data/temp

# install package
pkg_add -r vim-lite -P /mnt/usb-data/pkg

Now we need a script to create the symlinks to the Vim binaries in the “pkg” directory:

nano /mnt/usb-data/hooks.sh

Here’s the content:

#!/bin/sh

# Vim symlinks to binaries
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/bin/vim /bin/vi
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/bin/vim /bin/vim

# .vimrc for root
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/share/vim/vim72/vimrc_example.vim /root/.vimrc
# .vimrc for regular user
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/share/vim/vim72/vimrc_example.vim /mnt/.vimrc

# syntax file
mkdir  /usr/local/share/vim/
mkdir  /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/
ln -s /mnt/usb-data/pkg/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim /usr/local/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim

Now make it run at boot time, go in System —> Advanced —> Command scripts and enter:

/mnt/usb-data/hooks.sh

Select PostInit and that’s it! Everytime you reboot your FreeNAS server the symlinks will be re-created!