Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-23 05:23, jason matthews wrote: i seem to recall that there are solaris 8 branded zones. if memory serves from one of the opensolaris conferences you can just untar your current setup in zone and boot it. pick up a niagra or something from ebay -- less power more juice low cost.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-22 Thread jason matthews
i seem to recall that there are solaris 8 branded zones. if memory serves from one of the opensolaris conferences you can just untar your current setup in zone and boot it. pick up a niagra or something from ebay -- less power more juice low cost. j. On Nov 22, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Reginald Bea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-22 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW If it is the NVRAM, it's probably not a big problem if you can get the replacement part. I went through this mid 90's w/o any problems. Don't actually recall what the system was as I had several then, but the 4/110 seems a likely candidate. I'm pretty sure I was at the "won't boot" stage

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-22 Thread James Carlson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/22/2013 5:45 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > My hunch would be a dead battery on CMOS, or whatever the analog of > one would be. Any ideas where it might be located, and what model > it is (like CR2032 on Intel-compatibles)? Any more ideas? Ouch. If i

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, My attention was requested to an old UltraSPARC E450 machine with Solaris 8, whose clock was going slower and worse for the past few days, maybe weeks. Since about today it has practically stopped - or more precisely, loops over the same 2-3 second interval over and over, even with N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
I'm not interested, as I am not re-installing it again. The server edition is working fine. But you can try disabling NWAM and see if network-admin starts up. Sure didn't for me. And now I have to get out the door... R On 11/22/2013 11:11 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: I'm still interested

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
Thanks. I'll give this a try when I get home. R On 11/22/2013 11:08 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-11-22 19:58, Rainer Heilke wrote: To add Gnome, would a: pkg -R consolidation/gnome/gnome-corporation install entire do the trick? (Thanks for the pointer, Jim.) The "-R" parameter, like with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
I'm still interested in an analysis. Could you issue the commands I sent and report the output? Maybe I need to correct something on my wiki tutorial? Cheers Stefan > Good morning. > > They simply didn't work for me, and there are a few pages on the wiki with > differing instructions. I really

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-22 19:58, Rainer Heilke wrote: To add Gnome, would a: pkg -R consolidation/gnome/gnome-corporation install entire do the trick? (Thanks for the pointer, Jim.) The "-R" parameter, like with many other commands, specifies the path to root of alternate boot environment (so as to not b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
Good morning. They simply didn't work for me, and there are a few pages on the wiki with differing instructions. I really don't care to waste another day on this issue. To add Gnome, would a: pkg -R consolidation/gnome/gnome-corporation install entire do the trick? (Thanks for the pointer, J

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Well, the most interesting aspect of hipster vs. dev lies in its supplemental packages: PostgreSQL 9.3, to name just one. If those were available on dev, then that would relax the situation a lot. Or am I missing something here? Cheers Stefan "Tim Mooney" : > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs, Stefan M?ller-Wilken...: Why don't we promote Hipster ISOs more visibly on openindiana.org? I mean, with the much more current set of packages Is hipster really that much newer that OI151a8? Hipster certainly was newer when OI151a7 was the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cleaning up local pkg cache...

2013-11-22 Thread Lou Picciano
OI Friends, Need some pro advice on managing the local pkg repository cache... First, The Goal: Was to clean up vestigial pkg 'residue', stored in /var/pkg/cache, as part of a plan - partly to reduce consumed storage - but primarily to use our local pkg mirror as the reference copy for our inst

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hipster should never be considered "production ready" ... so if you want it in production, you should consider it unusable. When it is ready for testing, I'm assuming that it will be copied to /dev, which will allow a lot of users to upgrade, and in the future will move to stable, if it is conside

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Is there a (at least roughly) defined schedule or task list one can use to see progress on Hipster? What (or who?) would define the point for hipster to be considered usable? Cheers Stefan Von: Udo Grabowski (IMK) [udo.grabow...@kit.edu] Gesendet: Freit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 22/11/2013 11:38, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Well, for production I'd hope for a little more than "didn't crash" ;-) but that's already a good indication. Why don't we promote Hipster ISOs more visibly on openindiana.org? ... As already discussed in another thread a few days ago, /hipster

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Well, for production I'd hope for a little more than "didn't crash" ;-) but that's already a good indication. Why don't we promote Hipster ISOs more visibly on openindiana.org? I mean, with the much more current set of packages it is what could convince many potential users is a strong and up-t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]
Hi Stefan, yes, I am using /hipster for last couple months. It looks very promising (didn't crashed yet). As matter of fact, i am writing this from it, well latest from this morning: ---8<--- SunOS Release 5.11 Version illumos-a8039bf 64-bit ---8<--- ISO files you can find here (found on http:/

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster ISOs

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Hi Predrag, thanks for the assist. :-) Talking about hipster: what is the status of getting a Hipster ISO? And: anyone using Hipster productively already? Cheers Stefan Von: Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] [predrag.zece...@2e-systems.com]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Well, that was the point I was trying to make: for _me_, they worked so far. I'd need a little more feedback from Rainer to know what might need rework... Cheers Stefan Von: Jim Klimov [jimkli...@cos.ru] Gesendet: Freitag, 22. November 2013 11:05 An: ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]
Hi all, i have found that (Stefans's) page http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+NWAM+to+configure+network+interfaces contains all necessary info and have tested it with latest /hispter - was working. Regards. On 11/22/13 11:05, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-11-22 10:59, Stefan Müller-Wilken wro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-22 10:59, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Again: what is wrong with the NWAM approach? That works and for all of my installations was set up in a straight forward approach... For me - I am "oldschool", and most of the boxes use static configs or centralized DHCP, so I haven't really use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (no subject)

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-22 10:44, Rainer Heilke wrote: Can you give me the output of ... Not anymore. Like I stated, I've now installed the text server version, and want to add Gnome. I am *not* re-installing the GUI LiveCD version again. Interesting still... gotta try this in a VirtualBox at least ;) As

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Again: what is wrong with the NWAM approach? That works and for all of my installations was set up in a straight forward approach... Cheers Stefan Von: Jim Klimov [jimkli...@cos.ru] Gesendet: Freitag, 22. November 2013 10:55 An: openindiana-discuss@openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-22 10:03, Rainer Heilke wrote: Yep. Didn't work for me, as I need the system to boot right into a networking state. Like all of the NWAM documentation I found, I had to log in before the networking came up. R Do you need it to work hands-off, automagically after the first boot? You

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (no subject)

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Errr... sorry, I can't see the relation to GUI or server version. I've mainly used the server version so the commands should work. Or am I missing something? Cheers Stefan Von: Rainer Heilke [rhei...@dragonhearth.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 22. November 2013

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
Hi. On 11/22/2013 1:43 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 22/11/2013 10:37, Rainer Heilke wrote: To make things clear: Why would you need that? Open the shell, and :; pfexec svcadm disable -s physical:nwam :; pfexec svcadm enable -r physical:default To repeat, this did *not* work. This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (no subject)

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
Hey. On 11/22/2013 1:35 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Hi Rainer, Yep. Didn't work for me, as I need the system to boot right into a networking state. Like all of the NWAM documentation I found, I had to log in before the networking came up. what do you mean by 'boot into a networking state

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 22/11/2013 10:37, Rainer Heilke wrote: To make things clear: Why would you need that? Open the shell, and :; pfexec svcadm disable -s physical:nwam :; pfexec svcadm enable -r physical:default To repeat, this did *not* work. This should always work if followed by the classical ifconfi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
To make things clear: On 11/22/2013 1:13 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-11-22 08:05, Rainer Heilke wrote: On 11/21/2013 10:20 PM, Milan Jurik wrote: Hi, On 22.11.2013 08:02, Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings. After spending most of the day trying to get the OI 151a8 (LiveCD Desktop) install to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] (no subject)

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Hi Rainer, >Yep. Didn't work for me, as I need the system to boot right into a >networking state. Like all of the NWAM documentation I found, I had to >log in before the networking came up. what do you mean by 'boot into a networking state'? Simply boot and configure a static network address wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-11-22 08:05, Rainer Heilke wrote: On 11/21/2013 10:20 PM, Milan Jurik wrote: Hi, On 22.11.2013 08:02, Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings. After spending most of the day trying to get the OI 151a8 (LiveCD Desktop) install to boot up with fixed IP addresses, I finally gave up. The wiki is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Rainer Heilke
Yep. Didn't work for me, as I need the system to boot right into a networking state. Like all of the NWAM documentation I found, I had to log in before the networking came up. R On 11/22/2013 12:25 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Hi Rainer, have you looked at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Gnome to server install

2013-11-22 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Hi Rainer, have you looked at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+NWAM+to+configure+network+interfaces ? That should describe reasonably well how to set a static address. I'm using the described procedure regularly on oi_151a7 and oi_151a8 installations... Cheers Stefan