Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-06 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:53:22PM -0800, Charles Monett wrote: > Fine, it might have been dead, and probably (almost) useless, but that > would be enough for some to fill in the blank spaces if they were left > on their own for those who'd even want to touch that code outside of > Sun- if just f

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Collins
Charles Monett wrote: Fine, it might have been dead, and probably (almost) useless, but that would be enough for some to fill in the blank spaces if they were left on their own for those who'd even want to touch that code outside of Sun- if just for the ability to add in support where the har

[osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-06 Thread Charles Monett
Fine, it might have been dead, and probably (almost) useless, but that would be enough for some to fill in the blank spaces if they were left on their own for those who'd even want to touch that code outside of Sun- if just for the ability to add in support where the hardware was dropped. At the

[osol-discuss] How to communicate wite kernel module?

2005-12-06 Thread nice
After a kernel module was loaded successfully, how to communicate wite this kernel module like change the status of the kernel module. In Linux, I can use /proc file to do that. But, In solaris, /proc file is just used for processors. Now, how can I communicate write my kernel module? Can I use

[osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-06 Thread Charles Monett
That "unsupported hardware" ought to cover all the way down in EOL'd territory to the Ultra 1, which seems to be the absolute low point of "supported hardware" - which amounts to little more than a fast 32 bit CPU due to a significant bug in certain 64bit operations.However, it seems that perfec

Re: [osol-discuss] sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last release?

2005-12-06 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:11:03PM -0800, Charles Monett wrote: > Noticing the mailing lists, and otherwise, it seems that you want to put > the sun4m support away for good (along with a similar incident done to > the ZX on versions 7 & 8) and not even allow for a last supported, open > "foot-in-t

Re: [osol-discuss] sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last release?

2005-12-06 Thread Ian Collins
Charles Monett wrote: Noticing the mailing lists, and otherwise, it seems that you want to put the sun4m support away for good (along with a similar incident done to the ZX on versions 7 & 8) and not even allow for a last supported, open "foot-in-the-door" release. Sure, used ultrasparc hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] i915GM Solaris Express 11/05

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
len wrote: I believe that Solaris Express 11/05 has no support or broken support on Intel 915GM's video. I believe it should support it, as it includes the Xorg driver changes that claim to provide i915GM support, but have no i915GM machines to prove or disprove it. Is there some problem you

[osol-discuss] i915GM Solaris Express 11/05

2005-12-06 Thread len
I believe that Solaris Express 11/05 has no support or broken support on Intel 915GM's video. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last release?

2005-12-06 Thread Charles Monett
Noticing the mailing lists, and otherwise, it seems that you want to put the sun4m support away for good (along with a similar incident done to the ZX on versions 7 & 8) and not even allow for a last supported, open "foot-in-the-door" release. Sure, used ultrasparc hardware might be cheap- but

[osol-discuss] Slashdot FUD fighters unite

2005-12-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
The trick is to catch these people early : http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/06/2232237&tid=102&tid=137 My flame suit is on and I am standing in a cold shower : http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170374&cid=14198802 Dennis __

[osol-discuss] : Solaris Express DVD?

2005-12-06 Thread Kashif Ali
Or a simpler solution or *nix cat file1 file2 ...> filename on windows copy /b file1 + file2... filename where file1 etc.. = segments and filename is equal to final dvd image name. example cat sol1a sol1b sol1c sol1d sol1e > sol10.iso copy /b sol1a + sol1b + sol1c + sol1d + sol1e sol10.iso

[osol-discuss] opensolaris on zseries and cell.

2005-12-06 Thread senthilnathan
Hi All, On my sparetime, I want to try porting/compile opensolaris into following IBM platforms. 1. s390/zseries platform http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/ Mainframe emulator http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules and 2. cellprocessor platform http://www-03.ibm.com/chips/power/splash/cell/ c

[osol-discuss] Re: troubles with booting Windows

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Pattison
I've just realised - is (hd1,x) not on the second hard disk? I'm assuming you know that. If not, then you need to use (hd0,x) instead in your menu.lst file to refer to the first hard disk in your system. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: troubles with booting Windows

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Pattison
> It seems to me that boot sector of windows was > damaged after updating Solaris In which case (assuming you are using Windows 2000 or XP): 1. Boot from the Windows install CD. 2. Choose "R" for recovery console once the CD has booted. 3. The CD should find your Windows installation and present

[osol-discuss] UltraSPARC

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Rushmore
UltraSPARC T1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Gw3Zx Has anyone at Sun had a chance to do a build on one of the new UltraSPARC T1 's? If so how long does it take? How high can you set maxjobs? Bill Rushmore www.rushmores.net This

Re: [osol-discuss] SunPlex cluster vs. N1 Grid engine

2005-12-06 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi, Below are some links to resources that might help you. Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Overview document: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-7499?q=Sun+Cluster+3.1+8%2F05 Sun Cluster Data Service for Grid Engine (Solaris OS) install document: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-1089?q=Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source

2005-12-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - The configuration is so cryptic that I failed a fifth > > time to understand it and it was another time that I > > compiled and configured ISC dhcpd instead and configured > >

[osol-discuss] SunPlex cluster vs. N1 Grid engine

2005-12-06 Thread UNIX admin
As Sun recently released its entire application stack, it is now viable to run the enterprise availability tools right in one's rack at home. There are two products in the aforementioned application stack - namely the clustering SW and the N1 Grid Engine. My goal is to build a high-availability