[OpenIndiana-discuss] I Installed OpenIndiana -- Now How Do I Boot It?

2017-04-27 Thread Jay F. Shachter
it can find a Solaris 11.3 system on ZFS. But I truly would like to run OpenIndiana for a change. I've never run OpenIndiana hipster (the last time I ran OpenIndiana it was OpenIndiana dev), and I would like to immerse myself in it for a while. How do I do it? As always, thank you in advance

[OpenIndiana-discuss] I Installed OpenIndiana -- Now How Do I Boot It?

2017-04-27 Thread Jay F. Shachter
it can find a Solaris 11.3 system on ZFS. But I truly would like to run OpenIndiana for a change. I've never run OpenIndiana hipster (the last time I ran OpenIndiana it was OpenIndiana dev), and I would like to immerse myself in it for a while. How do I do it? As always, thank you in advance

[OpenIndiana-discuss] I Installed OpenIndiana -- Now How Do I Boot It?

2017-04-27 Thread Jay F. Shachter
it can find a Solaris 11.3 system on ZFS. But I truly would like to run OpenIndiana for a change. I've never run OpenIndiana hipster (the last time I ran OpenIndiana it was OpenIndiana dev), and I would like to immerse myself in it for a while. How do I do it? As always, thank you in advance

[OpenIndiana-discuss] I Installed OpenIndiana -- Now How Do I Boot It?

2017-04-27 Thread Jay F. Shachter
it can find a Solaris 11.3 system on ZFS. But I truly would like to run OpenIndiana for a change. I've never run OpenIndiana hipster (the last time I ran OpenIndiana it was OpenIndiana dev), and I would like to immerse myself in it for a while. How do I do it? As always, thank you in advance

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any 32-bit users?

2017-02-11 Thread Jay F. Shachter
ntific Linux, and Oracle Linux, is essentially identical to RHEL except for the branding, but unlike those other distributions, Springdale Linux offers a 32-bit version. You should get Springdale, if you want to run RHEL 7.3 on your i386 hardware. I cannot help you with Windows Server.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How Do You Install OI Hipster On A GPT-Partitioned Disk?

2017-01-29 Thread Jay F. Shachter
ice 9 has type 0xbf00, which designates it to be my Solaris slice. How do I install OI Hipster into it? Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 606

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How many versions of libs/apps should OI provide?

2016-12-22 Thread Jay F. Shachter
rsion 1 of png-devel contained /usr/include/png.h and png-devel-legacy does not. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Drivers For My Wireless Network Device

2016-08-19 Thread jay
nderstands ext2 and LVM). Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does It Happen To All Of Us At Some Point?

2016-06-19 Thread Jay F. Shachter
crosoft Windows, to whom it has nevertheless happened. Perhaps peripheral to the purpose of this mailing list, perhaps not, if it can demonstrate that if you use nothing but OpenIndiana your friends are safe from junk mail. Thank you in advance for any and all replies.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] struct msghdr

2016-05-25 Thread Jay F. Shachter
oposing to "alleviate" Solaris by making it more like Linux. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)996473

[OpenIndiana-discuss] masquerade solved, thank you

2016-03-10 Thread jay
ft response to my simple question. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice

[OpenIndiana-discuss] masquerade

2016-03-09 Thread jay
e zeros are supposed to be on the left rather than the right, in ipnat.conf. Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Jay F. Shachter
at "OpenIndiana is open-source and Solaris is not". The answer is also "OpenIndiana supports 32-bit hardware and Solaris does not". This is a strong reason for using OpenIndiana rather than Solaris, and yet it appears nowhere in your FAQ. Jay F.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster

2016-01-23 Thread Jay F. Shachter
Incidentally, has anyone done anything about the inability to have more than one OpenSolaris-derived operating system per disk? No other normal operating system I know suffers from this bizarre limitation. If anyone has done anything about this, please let me know what.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has Anyone Succeeded In Running Firefox 43b On Solaris 10?

2015-11-18 Thread jay
Solaris 10? I have a relatively recent (e.g., "zpool upgrade -v" goes up to 32) version of Solaris 10, on which the following occurs: /home/jay Nu? firefox43.0b3 XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox43.0b3/lib/firefox-43.0/libmozsqlite3.so: ld.so.1: firefox.exe: fatal: reloca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

2015-08-23 Thread jay
anting to run a closed-source OS, but if you're going to, shouldn't one prefer Solaris? What am I missing? Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Berkeley DB Libraries

2015-04-06 Thread jay
kg://openindiana.org/consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.7:20121003T223913Z # The error message is incomprehensible to me. As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-411

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Postfix

2015-04-06 Thread jay
ardware). But that is to be expected. Open-source software never works correctly on Solaris-derived systems the first time you install it. It is working now. Thank you again for your help. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Postfix

2015-03-29 Thread jay
Esteemed Colleagues: I'm still hoping that someone will answer the question I asked this past Wednesday, March 25th, about sound on x86 machines. In the meantime I have another question: how can I get postfix on an OpenIndiana system? Here are the relevant facts: /home/jay # svcs -a |

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sound on x86

2015-03-25 Thread jay
placing shared directories (e.g., /export/home/jay, or /opt/assp) on ZFS has permenantly driven me off my Linux system, as installing ZFS on my Linux system crippled it, it can no longer stay functional for more than a few minutes. Apparently, installing native ZFS on a 32-bit Linux system with 256

[OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana-discuss Digest, Vol 56, Issue 22 (fwd)

2015-03-21 Thread jay
stem? If we knew, in advance, how much time we would have to spend getting programs to build, no one on this mailing list would ever have installed a Solaris-derived system on any of our computers. But I digress.) Jay F. Shachter

[OpenIndiana-discuss] rastertoz55 and the Lexmark X6170

2015-03-16 Thread jay
The "gs -?" command does not mention any device with "z55" in its name. Thus I now turn to the collective wisdom of the membership of this mailing list. How do I generate z55 output, on my Solaris-derived system, so that I can use my printer for something other than a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Imagining The Unimaginable -- Followup

2015-03-06 Thread jay
step 2 clock 1800 MHz) Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 CPU 1.80GHz # Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Imagining The Unimaginable

2015-03-05 Thread jay
ing system that functions, and functions well, on it. So, perhaps you will now be able to imagine that which was for you, until now, unimaginable. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster (Alexander Pyhalov)

2015-02-27 Thread jay
My business (computer consulting, mostly training) requires me to be knowledgeable of many different systems, therefore I have set up my computer so that I can boot into whatever system I need to be knowledgeable about this week. I wanted certain directories -- e.g., /var/spool/mail and /home/jay and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does OpenBSD support ZFS?

2015-02-02 Thread jay
(FreeBSD also supports ZFS, but without NetBSD's commitment to running on obsolete hardware). Or, is it possible that I am mistaken? Is there an OpenBSD implementation of ZFS of which I am unaware? Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipp

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Syntax Errors From Crontab Lines

2015-01-15 Thread jay
that no longer true in OpenIndiana? It is documented on my Schillix system, and it has been the behavior of cron since the beginning of time. It is the only way to run a command with more than one line of standard input, without creating a separate input file. Jay F. Sha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has Anyone Built ptlib-2.10.10 On 32-Bit Solaris?

2014-12-03 Thread jay
o build ekiga. Thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic? ; Mona Eyes

2014-11-08 Thread jay
superior to X, but which, alas, never succeeded in the marketplace, for unknown and mysterious reasons.) Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic?

2014-11-07 Thread jay
replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chicago.il.us j...@m5.chicago.il.us "But when she trace

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 for 32-bit Solaris -- OpenJDK build

2014-09-30 Thread jay
int, but hey, if it's not broke, don't fix it). Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chicago.il.us j...@m5.chicago.il.u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 for 32-bit Solaris -- followup

2014-09-27 Thread jay
en I have enough to do replacing bash on every computer I own. Therefore I am using the Java build that I found on https://jdk8.java.net/lambda and it seems to be working. I welcome further comments from the members of this mailing list. Jay F. Shac

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 for 32-bit Solaris -- followup

2014-09-24 Thread jay
I found a Java8 build for 32-bit Solaris on https://jdk8.java.net/lambda -- by its own admission, not the latest version of Java8, but it seems to be working for the purpose for which I needed it. I welcome the comments of others on this mailing list. Jay F. Shachter

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Who Has Java 8 For 32-Bit Solaris?

2014-09-23 Thread jay
e and compile it? Please don't tell me that I have to do that (or maybe it's worse than that -- does OpenJDK even exist for Java8?). Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

2014-07-15 Thread jay
2 thru -F6 are two questions that remain unanswered, as of this writing. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-4

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

2014-07-15 Thread jay
cated below. I thank you in advance for any and all replies. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice http://m5.chicago.il.us j...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-21 Thread Jay Heyl
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: > > Like this : > > root@hostie:~# zdb | egrep 'ashift| name' > name: 'rpool' > ashift: 12 > > > > And as I understand it, the 12 means 4k blocks, good, right? :) Yep, those are the good kind. You're future-proof for the forese

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-17 Thread Jay Heyl
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: > > 2 x 2TB HDDs for rpool (ZFS mirror) > 4 x 2TB HDD's to get at least a 4TB mirror (or is RAID-Z a better option?) > > Would I be better off with some 500GB HDD's for the rpool? And while I > fiddle with this thing, is there any way to get th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Jay Heyl
the logical block up > > into equally sized portions. > > Jay, there you have it. You asked why use mirrors, and you said you would > use raidz2 or raidz3 unless cpu overhead is too much. I recommended using > mirrors and avoiding raidzN, and here is the answer why. > > If you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Jay Heyl
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-04-17 20:09, Jay Heyl wrote: > >> reply. Unless the first device to answer returns garbage (something >>> that doesn't match the expected checksum), other copies are not read >>> as part of this requ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Jay Heyl
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-04-17 02:10, Jay Heyl wrote: > >> Not to get into bickering about semantics, but I asked, "Or am I wrong >> about reads being issued in parallel to all the mirrors in the array?", to >> which you rep

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Jay Heyl
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-04-16 23:56, Jay Heyl wrote: > >> result in more devices being hit for both read and write. Or am I wrong >> about reads being issued in parallel to all the mirrors in the array? >> > > Yes, in normal cas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Jay Heyl
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Jay Heyl wrote: > > > My question about the rationale behind the suggestion of mirrored SSD > > arrays was really meant to be more in relation to the question from the > OP. > &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Jay Heyl
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-04-16 20:30, Jay Heyl wrote: > >> What would be the logic behind mirrored SSD arrays? With spinning platters >> the mirrors improve performance by allowing the fastest of the mirrors to >> respond to a particul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Jay Heyl
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > So I'm just assuming you're going to build a pool out of SSD's, mirrored, > perhaps even 3-way mirrors. No cache/log devices. All the ram you can fit > into the system. What would be the lo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI as file storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Jay Heyl
ant to try. I did that initially and used a few USB flash drives to set up test scenarios. It wasn't totally realistic, but it gave me a few for how things worked. When you're done, pop out the CD, pull out the flash drives, and you're right bac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Heyl
ally, use a COPY of a nicely configured virtual machine. If you mess up, correcting your mistake is a simple matter of making another copy of the virtual machine. Unless you enjoy installing/restoring your development machine... -- Jay ___ Open

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Drive compatibility

2012-06-09 Thread Jay Heyl
I had a bit of a hiccup last week with my zfs pool. It's a ten-drive raidz2 vdev. All the drives are Samsung F4s, though of two slightly different models. Two of the drives showed up one morning as "degraded". In somewhat of a panic I rushed out and bought a couple Seagate drives as replacements. W

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS restore from snapshot

2012-06-02 Thread Jay Heyl
I have a file that shows as corrupted in the live file system and two snapshots. The file gives every indication of being valid in earlier snapshots. I've tried to restore it from the good snapshot but it doesn't seem to want to take. After several failed attempts to copy directly from the snapshot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs and usb drives

2012-05-31 Thread Jay Heyl
eed limit. When they're each connected directly to a USB port the transfers can go at close to the USB max. -- Jay ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs and usb drives

2012-05-29 Thread Jay Heyl
orage to "parity" data. (I might be convinced to buy another 2TB drive to get a 60/40 split on a raidz2 pool.) I realize there's also the option of just going JBOD for the non-critical stuff, but I think I"d prefer the greater level of assurance provided by raidz. Informed though

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RFC: OI website brain storm page

2011-02-15 Thread jay undernet
e community puts in, the greater the > result will be. > > Thanks a lot, > Deano > de...@cloudpixies.com > > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HCL wiki format

2011-01-23 Thread jay undernet
yeah, maybe we can also add drivers version, or driver's last update, comments 2011/1/24 Christopher Chan > Thanks Matt for creating the structure for the HCL on the wiki. > > I am starting to add stuff to the pages...and then I noticed that there is > no 'format' for the HCL. > > Will a table w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL

2011-01-21 Thread jay undernet
Good idea. we can add the build number of OI, categories and updates. Vendor Model Build categories (network, audio etc ...) Works? Notes/special instructions etc updates --- jay http://kowidi.com/openindiana 2011/1/21 Matthew Wilby > If there is interest in creating an HCL, I will