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

2013-11-24 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
If I read that web site correctly, these NVRAMs are a little over 8 years old. This begs the question; has the shelf life of the included battery expired or not?? Internal leakage of these NVRAMs is minute in the disconnected state, but, depending on the version, remaining battery shelf life c

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

2013-11-24 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2013-11-24 18:34, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: If I read that web site correctly, these NVRAMs are a little over 8 years old. This begs the question; has the shelf life of the included battery expired or not?? Internal leakage of these NVRAMs is minute in the disconnected state, but, dependi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg only installing command-line tools

2013-11-24 Thread Rainer Heilke
I've been using: pkg install -v {package} to install command-line tools, but it refuses to install Gnome. Whenever I try: pkg install -v {gnome,gnome-incorporation,etc} it spins for a few moments "Creating plan", then comes back: "No updates necessary for this image." But this system doesn't h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg only installing command-line tools

2013-11-24 Thread Rainer Heilke
Never mind; I've given up. :-( I need to get going setting up software, so I'm reinstalling the LiveCD knowing the network is pooched and that it won't save desktop settings, and who knows what else. Maybe the 151a9 update will fix things. A very disappointed, Rainer On 11/24/2013 4:35 PM, Ra

[OpenIndiana-discuss] using 151a8 in production

2013-11-24 Thread David Thistlethwaite
Hello folks I am a newbie to openindiana. I am considering using the 151a8 version as a production server, the server will perform the following 1) Server files via samba and NFS 2) Run around 10 virtual machines using virtualbox, these machines will be web servers and Microsoft

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg only installing command-line tools

2013-11-24 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Morning Rainer, sorry to hear your understandable disappointment. But I'd still be willing to help diagnosing the network problem if you'd share the output of nwamcfg, dladm et cetera. Cheers Stefan Von: Rainer Heilke [rhei...@dragonhearth.com] Gesende