Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
Well, I'm still puzzled why OI installer and/or gparted won't show you any info about the drive, however, your screenshot does tell a story: It seems the disk is laid out in MBR partitioning after all, however, it has all 4 primary partitions assigned (including one that holds the extended partit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Jason Matthews
i am rev locked for now on 151a1 and have never had oroblems with snapshots once i started the service. i dont use the gui so i cant speak to those functions but the snapshots work. j. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Feb 1, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Probably well trodden gro

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 format(1m) bugs

2013-02-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
The data attached was collected using the LiveCD. The labels were created using the shell on the text-install CD. Here's the output from the "verify" command: Primary label contents: Volume name = <> ascii name = pcyl= 60799 n

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More N40L fun :-(

2013-02-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Fri, 2/1/13, Jim Klimov wrote: > > I think I used the command-line parted to pre-label the > partitions > when I was concerned about this on my home NAS (hand-made > box), and > then allowed the installer to use the whole partition - with > the > alignment I deemed correct. At least, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] N40L weirdness

2013-02-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Fri, 2/1/13, list wrote: > From: list > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] N40L weirdness > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Friday, February 1, 2013, 1:49 PM > the N40L dimms that come preinstalled > are DDR3 ECC Non-registered. > did you buy a NON-ECC dimm? > ECC DIMM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new SXCE distribution now available

2013-02-01 Thread Al Hopper
Done! The md5sum is 330a82654405c77c8cea903ed18117f2 And yes - it's logical dash approach dot com (sorry about that) On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: > Hi Al, > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Al Hopper > wrote: > > > > Martin Bochnig has developed a new Solaris distri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new SXCE distribution now available

2013-02-01 Thread Francois Dion
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: > Hi Al, > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Al Hopper wrote: >> Martin Bochnig has developed a new Solaris distribution called SXCE. >> It's available at http://www.opensxce.org > I think this was mentioned in another thread, but could you post t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new SXCE distribution now available

2013-02-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Al, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Al Hopper wrote: > > Martin Bochnig has developed a new Solaris distribution called SXCE. > It's available at http://www.opensxce.org > > My involvement in this project is simply to provide a distribution mechanism > for Martins work. So, all the credit f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] > > Has that issue been completely resolved... auto snapshots now work > with no problems? In 151a5, I had to fiddle with password before time-slider GUI config worked. But the present release is 151a7, so maybe that's a resolved issue now. Eith

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] N40L weirdness

2013-02-01 Thread list
the N40L dimms that come preinstalled are DDR3 ECC Non-registered. did you buy a NON-ECC dimm? my experience with the N40L has been putting a NON-ECC in with a ECC dimm, you get weirdness from the BIOS.. *I* always run memtest after installing new memory no matter what. just my 2 cents On Jan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] More N40L fun :-(

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-01 17:09, Reginald Beardsley wrote: I labeled the disks using the OI_151a7 text installer shell which doesn't allow me to specify a starting sector, just a starting cylinder. I think I used the command-line parted to pre-label the partitions when I was concerned about this on my hom

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-01 16:59, James Relph wrote: However, in case that your filesystems for some reason rely on ACLs and extended attributes (not so for the default installation) you might have to use the Sun tar or cpio (not the GNU variants). For what it's worth you can build the 3.0.10-dev versions o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Harry Putnam wrote: I don't notice any mention of graphics while paging round those sites and linked sites. Do server platforms generally not have graphics or is it just inserted into a slot somewhere? or what? True server-boards normally have a very low-end video interfa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW the HP Z400 series workstations support ECC and you can find good deals on them both on HP's refurb site and on eBay. They are certified for Solaris, so OI should not have an issue. I bought a Z400 w/ quad core 3.2 GHz Xeon processor, 8 GB ECC DRAM, nVidia FX1800 and 500 GB of disk for ~

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Harry, On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I do remember there was a problem with auto snapshots in the early > builds available shortly after the break from opensolaris to > openindiana. I think build 148 to 150 were the last builds I used. > > Has that issue been completel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/01/2013 05:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do server platforms generally not have graphics or is it just inserted > into a slot somewhere? or what? "Sadly" nowadays they do. I put sadly in quotes, because for some OSes having a graphics card in the machine is actually required to even be insta

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Probably well trodden ground, but looking back into the past list discussions I'm not noticing a straight answer about this. I quit working with OI some 1.5 yrs ago and have forgotten most of what I ever learned about using it. I do remember there was a problem with auto snapshots in the early bu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Friesenhahn writes: [...] > If you are not dead-set on having an an i7 CPU, then there are many > more options. SuperMicro makes some nice motherboards which work with > Xeon CPUs and support ECC memory and built-in audio. These > motherboards are basically server-class motherboards with >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] More N40L fun :-(

2013-02-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Facts: System will not boot from regular S10/8 image. Hangs just before "configuring devices" S10/8 failsafe boots but can't see pools. S10/u8 installer shell can't see pools. I can't recall if I ran format(1m) to check if the disks were visible. OI_151a7 text installer shell sees pools and i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-02-01 Thread James Relph
> However, in case that your filesystems for some reason rely on ACLs > and extended attributes (not so for the default installation) you > might have to use the Sun tar or cpio (not the GNU variants). For what it's worth you can build the 3.0.10-dev versions of rsync with Solaris xattr and ACL s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-02-01 Thread Jerry Kemp
In short, my comment is wrong. Long version, a few years back on the OpenSolaris ZFS mailing list, there was a big discussion and a request for this feature. Lori Alt had even created RFE 6882134 to move forward on it. I had not needed this feature myself, but had filed it away for a time when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] N40L weirdness

2013-02-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Reg, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > If anyone has any suggestions they would be most welcome. Only things I can > think of are to find a copy of memtest and/or remove the DIMM. It's a > Kingston KTH-PL313ES/2G DIMM that's supposed to be correct for the N40L.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Local IPS repos

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, I'm trying to set up local IPS repositories in the LAN to replicate oi-dev and (if possible) sfe and sfe-encumbered, as well as publish our local on-build experiments, and some in-house packages to boot. So far I was thinking along the lines of an horde of unrelated IPS server ins

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-01 02:22, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: My only suggestion is to check the drive mode. I would guess you want AHCI, and I would guess it already is in AHCI mode, so I'm guessing this suggestion is no help. Or, as I suggested, check that other OSes did not layout this disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

2013-02-01 Thread Mirko Fluher
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 23:54 -0500, Rich wrote: > It's also possible that your problem is that the 2T drive is doing > SATA 3 and something is buggy in how OI is handling the SATA 3 > (whereas the 250GB drive is likely SATA 1/2). Today, from same system, I removed the old 250G HD (yes, early SATA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-01 06:08, Reginald Beardsley wrote: --- On Thu, 1/31/13, Jerry Kemp wrote: When doing the zfs send, you can specify the version number I've verified that (by default at least) one can't send a stream from OI to SXCE (snv_117): cannot receive: stream is unsupported version 17 I di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: OpenSXCE on SF440 (missing network driver)

2013-02-01 Thread Andrej Javoršek
Thank you all for answers! I did another strange thing that worked (partialy inspired by http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/) I bluntly copied ce (file) from installed Solaris 10 (using USB stick...) into every possible location (/kernel/drv/sparc9, and some other...) created empty ce.co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: OpenSXCE on SF440 (missing network driver)

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-01 10:02, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/01/2013 08:01 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: Thank you for your answer! Would driver from Solaris 10 work and if yes how to get it from installed system (or installation DVD)? Well, on the ISO (or its "setup_install_server" image) you can search for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who handles updating non-os packages?

2013-02-01 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Apart from that - and as I've investigated that lately: check if it is SFE. If it is, then further read the SFE FAQ at http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ . Afterwards, inspect the package manifest at http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/ and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who handles updating non-os packages?

2013-02-01 Thread Ilya Arhipkin
01.02.13 15:09, Hans J Albertsson пишет: Suppose I'd felt the need for getting a non-os openindiana.org package updated/rejuvenated. Whom should I ask to either do it or tell me how to do it? Skickat från min Samsung Mobil ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Who handles updating non-os packages?

2013-02-01 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Suppose I'd felt the need for getting a non-os openindiana.org  package updated/rejuvenated. Whom should I ask to either do it or tell me how to do it? Skickat från min Samsung Mobil ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: OpenSXCE on SF440 (missing network driver)

2013-02-01 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/01/2013 08:01 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: > Thank you for your answer! > Would driver from Solaris 10 work and if yes how to get it from installed > system (or installation DVD)? It should, Solaris' DDI is pretty stable. The other most likely possibility is that it either won't load or will p