Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer
Hmmm... Has anyone tried doing the install from within VMware? You can give VMware access to a physical disk or partition. That should at least get through the install from the CD to an "installed" disk partition. Getting through the grub magic and/or whatever stuff the mac uses for boot mana

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source code management selection, draft

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Holger Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-07 18:12]: > On 4/8/06, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > > > > > > Commentary is encouraged. We can start to look at specific > > > SCM-dependent tools next week, unless we are more distant from

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Ché Kristo
I cant seem to get past stage 2 on grub either. also note that the mac detects the solaris cd as a windows partition, what is going on here? not giving up yet... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source code management selection, draft

2006-04-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Holger Berger wrote: May I ask whether this decision is wise? What is the background to prefer Mercurial over bit keeper, git or subversion? Please read the full body of the evaluations which explain exactly why this decision was made (they were posted to tools-discuss, not the full opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source code management selection, draft

2006-04-07 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/8/06, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > > > Commentary is encouraged. We can start to look at specific > > SCM-dependent tools next week, unless we are more distant from > > consensus that I believe... > > > > Enjoy the weekend; my th

[osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source code management selection, draft

2006-04-07 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > Commentary is encouraged. We can start to look at specific > SCM-dependent tools next week, unless we are more distant from > consensus that I believe... > > Enjoy the weekend; my thanks to all. ... snip > Therefore, we have decided to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Potter
Ian Collins wrote: Just curious, has anyone timed a build on a T2000? I'm interested in how well one these works as a build system. I haven't. Unfortunately, the only T2000s we have at work are being used for certification and performance testing purposes right now. I might see if I can pr

[osol-discuss] Re: Another round of layoffs

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Lee
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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-07 Thread Ian Collins
Stephen Potter wrote: >I just put together an AMD X2-3800+ system (low end dual core), cost me less >than $700 total I think because of some good deals. Just did my first nightly >in 1:15:01. > >For pricing proc was $300, ASRock MB was $65 (onboard shared video works >great, still haven't gott

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-07 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:46:42AM -0700, J?rgen Keil wrote: > The recently released on-20060404 release has added "gcc" shadow > compilation, and it seems a lot (all?) files are now compiled four times > (debug i386 & amd64 using Sun cc; + debug i386 & amd64 using gcc). Not quite. Most C and C

Re: [osol-discuss] Another round of layoffs [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html] - who is affected?

2006-04-07 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 4/7/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I. Szczesniak writes: > > I just finished reading > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html - are any people > > working on Opensolaris affected by these layoffs? > > Just what exactly are you expecting to hear on an open list like thi

Re: [osol-discuss] UFS fastfs versus logging?

2006-04-07 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Is there a technical reason why UFS logging cannot be used together > >with the fastfs option? > > It's asynchronous writes and logging is "sycnhronous" in some way > in nature. What's the point of "unsafe" logging? You could employ writ

Re: [osol-discuss] Another round of layoffs [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html] - who is affected?

2006-04-07 Thread James Carlson
I. Szczesniak writes: > I just finished reading > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html - are any people > working on Opensolaris affected by these layoffs? Just what exactly are you expecting to hear on an open list like this? Open Solaris is one thing, but personnel and finance matter

Re: [osol-discuss] UFS fastfs versus logging?

2006-04-07 Thread Casper . Dik
>Is there a technical reason why UFS logging cannot be used together >with the fastfs option? It's asynchronous writes and logging is "sycnhronous" in some way in nature. What's the point of "unsafe" logging? Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing lis

[osol-discuss] UFS fastfs versus logging?

2006-04-07 Thread I. Szczesniak
Is there a technical reason why UFS logging cannot be used together with the fastfs option? Irek ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Another round of layoffs [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html] - who is affected?

2006-04-07 Thread I. Szczesniak
I just finished reading http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6058894.html - are any people working on Opensolaris affected by these layoffs? Irek ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Buckingham
We have some hardware that has had similar problems. It may be that the A20 is actually enabled anyway. You might want to just do a return in the gateA20. We do: ENTRY(gateA20) movb$2, %al outb$0x92 ret but you could always just try returning ;-) this is in s

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: RENO

2006-04-07 Thread Anup Sekhar
I second this project. Anup Nicolas Williams wrote on 04/07/06 10:07: The goal of Project RENO [0] is to facilitate interoperability with Active Directory (see project WINCHESTER [1]), as well as with any directory that requires "self-credentialed" lookups [2] for information relevant to the l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Buckingham
Jürgen Keil wrote: It came up with the usual loading Stage 2but got no further, so at least it reads the DVD and tries to boot from it. It hangs in GRUB's gateA20() subroutine, called from usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/common.c function init_bios_info(), here: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
> It came up with the usual loading Stage 2but got > no further, so at least it reads the DVD and tries to > boot from it. It hangs in GRUB's gateA20() subroutine, called from usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/stage2/common.c function init_bios_info(), here: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/us

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: RENO

2006-04-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nicolas Williams wrote: The goal of Project RENO [0] is to facilitate interoperability with Active Directory (see project WINCHESTER [1]), as well as with any directory that requires "self-credentialed" lookups [2] for information relevant to the login process, and the DCE model of distributing s

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: RENO

2006-04-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
The goal of Project RENO [0] is to facilitate interoperability with Active Directory (see project WINCHESTER [1]), as well as with any directory that requires "self-credentialed" lookups [2] for information relevant to the login process, and the DCE model of distributing such information with authe

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I've had much more success, sadly, with RHEL4 but it isn't using GRUB > but lilo on the CD image. A Windows ME 1.44MB boot floppy image is bootable, when you write that as an El-Torito bootable CD (1.44MB bootable floppy image). > The kernel loads and it enters the installer > but either it i

[osol-discuss] Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Potter
> Which "on-src" release are your building, which > SUNWonbld tools are you using? Good point, that would be fair to say... March 27th releases, with Studio 10, not GCC. -spp This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-07 Thread Richard Jenner
Well, I've got Solaris 10 running on my Imac, after a fashion. I used the very recently announced Virtualisation software from Parallels (www.parallels.com), using their trial version. You basically create a virtual machine and point it at an ISO and tell it to boot from that. I had the origin

[osol-discuss] Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-07 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I just put together an AMD X2-3800+ system (low end > dual core), ... Just did my first nightly in 1:15:01. When comparing opensolaris build times. Which "on-src" release are your building, which SUNWonbld tools are you using? The recently released on-20060404 release has added "gcc" sh

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: how do i update my nevada version?

2006-04-07 Thread Eric Enright
On 4/6/06, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyway i wanted to do a clean install this time around. i think i screwed up > the first installs partition table -- i don't think i completely got rid of > the export/home partition. this time i got i right-- swap and one big / > partition. but