On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Kathy Slattery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Please see my comments below:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Kathy Slattery
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > 1) send any corrections to me or to the alias if
>> discussion is needed
>>
>> Page 10: "kill -9 <pid>" should only be used if "kill
>> <pid>" doesn't
>> work. Those that subscribe to the "kill -9"
>> philosophy are likely to
>> be the same ones that suggest pulling the power cord
>> (and battery, if
>> applicable) to shut down a system.  It works, but it
>> doesn't allow
>> things to come down cleanly.
>
> The reason that I used kill -9 in this case was that kill didn't work.
> I could change the procedure to use kill and then add a note
> suggesting that they use -9 if kill doesn't work. Would that be better?

That would probably be better.

>> Page 25:
>> - Quotas only affect data written after compression
>> is enabled.
>> - Based upon failures that I've seen on sparc with
>> live upgrade and
>> manually tweaking compression, I think that
>> compressed / may not work
>> (I may be wrong).  If so, this should be noted.
>>
>
> OK, I'll get someone to give it a try.

Be sure that you try pkg image-update et. al. or (better) confirm
whether it is intended to be supported or not.

>> > 2) tell me about any procedures that we should add
>>
>> As others mentioned, pkg.  beadm and grub probably
>> belong nearby.
>
> Will pointers to the coverage in the Getting Started guide
> be enough? or do we need more? We had some GRUB
> procedures in an earlier working copy, but none of them
> worked right, so we cut them. Is there something in
> specific you'd like to see?

I guess I'm not sure of the role of the two documents.  I'll have to
look around a bit more to see if I have some suggestions on how this
would make most sense.

>> Compatibility with pkgadd
>>
>
> Do you want us to tell them how to run pkgadd?
> With the new packaging system, we were staying away
> from mentioning pkgadd. Are there useful packages
> that you could add to an OpenSolaris system?

Studio 11, needed for ON development is a key one.  If I were bringing
this into an existing Solaris environment I may have my own or third
party packages to install.

>> Multi-boot configuration with Windows, Linux.  Major
>> bonus points for
>> any tips for sharing data between OS's in a
>> multi-boot configuration
>> without network storage.
>>
>
> Multi-boot is covered in the Getting Started Guide.
> Again, do we need more pointers?

I'll look...

>
> I knew the sharing data question was going to come up.
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I can get fully tested
> procedure ready by Wednesday, but if I can't we will
> get something in as soon as possible.

Quite understandable.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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