Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, David. Your community proposal has seconds, including one from a CAB member. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, David Van Couvering wrote: I would like to propose the formation of a new Open Solaris community focused on databases within Solaris. The ch

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Joshua Berkus wrote: > Well, the community release comes out in mid-November. It's in beta testing > now, testers are appreciated. The official Sun release will trail that > significantly. Excellent. At the moment, I roll my own builds of Postgres, so can you tell me what

Re: [osol-discuss] Tyan S2865: New BIOS release

2006-11-03 Thread Bart Smaalders
Daniel Rock wrote: Hi, for everyone also using a S2865 mainboard. Tyan has finally released a new BIOS version for this board. Highlights for Solaris: - EFI labels can now be used without hanging the system on reboot - smbios/prtdiag is now also working After a quick scan it now looks again

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Karl Hakimian
Thanks. My question had more to do with not screwing up the system than gaining a few extra megs. I don't like not knowing what something is for or how to regenerate it if it is important. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Joshua Berkus
Rich, BTW, now that I have your eyes, do we have an ETA for DTrace probes being integrated into Postgres (both the version that comes with Solaris and the upstream Postgres community's release)? Well, the community release comes out in mid-November. It's in beta testing now, testers are app

[osol-discuss] Tyan S2865: New BIOS release

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Rock
Hi, for everyone also using a S2865 mainboard. Tyan has finally released a new BIOS version for this board. Highlights for Solaris: - EFI labels can now be used without hanging the system on reboot - smbios/prtdiag is now also working After a quick scan it now looks again on-par with the X210

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 docs missing from docs.sun.com

2006-11-03 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi, I can't duplicate this problem, can you try again? I'm able to access all the S10 collections on docs.sun.com. As an alternative, you can get ZFS admin guide here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ But let me know if you still have the problem and I can contact the web masters.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Rock
Jürgen Keil schrieb: I'm not sure; removing the "alternates" partition might be OK To get rid of this slice you have to run format in -e (expert) mode. Otherwise you won't be able to select slice 9 in the partition menu. If you also want to get rid of the boot slice (you don't boot from this

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: > I've seen two +1's on this proposal and no other discussion. What else do we > need to do to make it happen? I'm eager to get the public > PostgreSQL-on-solaris lists moved over to opensolaris.org. Hopefully Eric's reply has answered your concerns, bu

[osol-discuss] nForce4 native SATA support

2006-11-03 Thread Steven Stallion
All, Are there plans to have native SATA support for the nForce4 chipsets? -- Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer. Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry. ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: CABites, I've seen two +1's on this proposal and no other discussion. What else do we need to do to make it happen? I'm eager to get the public PostgreSQL-on-solaris lists moved over to opensolaris.org. Hi Josh, A community proposal needs to meet the

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
Below are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups). You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups or bookmarking the URL: web page: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups zones-discuss 10/16 - 10/31 http://mail.opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new community: Databases

2006-11-03 Thread Josh Berkus
CABites, I've seen two +1's on this proposal and no other discussion. What else do we need to do to make it happen? I'm eager to get the public PostgreSQL-on-solaris lists moved over to opensolaris.org. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Lead Sun Microsystems San Francisco 01-415-752-2500 __

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 10/16 - 10/31 = Size of all threads du

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 docs missing from docs.sun.com

2006-11-03 Thread David Evans
The solaris10 documentation is missing from: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10 Perhaps someone here might be able to determine what happened. No lunchtime ZFS manual reading for me! -dce This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ open

[osol-discuss] Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Karl Hakimian
Thanks. That helps a lot. So what documentation should I be looking to for this information? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Translated Solaris documentation in Chinese

2006-11-03 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > It "appears" that Sun's Beijing team also published a "Linux to > Solaris Migration Guide". As I mentioned in my previous post, this > article seems to be available inside China (& probably written in > Chinese). It should be useful for those of us in

[osol-discuss] Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
> > The boot slice contains the bootstrap code. > > AFAIK, the slice is required on S-x86, because the > > bootstrap code has grown too big and doesn't fit into the > > spare sectors at the start of a regular UFS root > > filesystem any more. > > That makes sense. So if I damage that partition, ho

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Miner
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: ... is there anything other than the whitepaper and the docs specifying the goals of caiman already available to test/read? A first draft architecture should be published in the next few days. Dave ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 11/3/06, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Glynn Foster wrote: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool >> +1 >> >> The tool belongs on opensolaris.org > > +1 on the provision that it doesn't only submit the data to bigadmin. One of the > reasons why

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Alta Elstad
The public site for Sun Device Detection Tool 1.0 is: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] panic caused by emlxs driver?

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Sproul
Torrey McMahon wrote: Perhaps the storage-discuss alias would be a better audience for this subject? Thanks, sorry for the mis-posting. Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] panic caused by emlxs driver?

2006-11-03 Thread Torrey McMahon
Perhaps the storage-discuss alias would be a better audience for this subject? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Miner
Glynn Foster wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool +1 The tool belongs on opensolaris.org +1 on the provision that it doesn't only submit the data to bigadmin. One of the reasons why Ubuntu has flourished is because of their hwinfo tool that provides fe

[osol-discuss] panic caused by emlxs driver?

2006-11-03 Thread Eric Sproul
Hi, Recently we experienced a panic with a 6/06 system (amd64) that appears to have been caused by the emlxs driver. I did not see anything relevant in b.o.o nor does the most recent driver release (patch 120223) appear to address this issue. Can anyone assist in me in figuring out what went

[osol-discuss] AHCI SATA support

2006-11-03 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hi, I wonder what is the status of the AHCI SATA driver ? This feature is tracked by 6261241 AHCI driver is needed for ICH6 and SATA native mode [1] 6418168 AHCI driver is needed for VIA vt8251 [2] Is there any time schedule that can be shared with the rest of the community ? [1] http://bugs.o

Re: [osol-discuss] library pathmap in mdb

2006-11-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, James Carlson wrote: Hema Huchegowda writes: I tried what you suggested and that didn't seem to help me. The core is from a solaris 9 box and I'm trying to read it from a solaris 10 system: Why not find an S9 box to do this? I've brought in all the libraries this applica

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Tamarack - are there any news?

2006-11-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes, but not the complete replacement: > >> > >>- vold gone > >>- dbus/hal/rmvolmgr take over > >> > >> Things missing are: > >>- global setting of mount options > > ^ > > This would make it unusable :-( > > > >>- ab

Re: [osol-discuss] library pathmap in mdb

2006-11-03 Thread James Carlson
Hema Huchegowda writes: > I tried what you suggested and that didn't seem to help me. > The core is from a solaris 9 box and I'm trying to read it from a > solaris 10 system: Why not find an S9 box to do this? > I've brought in all the libraries this application dependents (as seen > in pldd ou

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Tamarack - are there any news?

2006-11-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean it is going to work in Build 51? And does it substitute vold by then? Yes, but not the complete replacement: - vold gone - dbus/hal/rmvolmgr take over Things missing are: - global

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread ken mays
Glynn, Tools like hwinfo, NICtools, Sun VTS, SCSItools, and PCIutils are invaluable for hardware/software engineers for Solaris SDK/DDK work. Some of the tools were implemented on Knoppix for Live CD/DVDs and now Ubuntu. Ken Mays EarthLink, Inc. - Original Message From: Glynn Foste

[osol-discuss] Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Karl Hakimian
> The boot slice contains the bootstrap code. AFAIK, > the slice is required on S-x86, because the > bootstrap > code has grown too big and doesn't fit into the > spare > sectors at the start of a regular UFS root > filesystem > any more. Thant makes sense. So if I damage that partition, how it i

[osol-discuss] Re: Where do I find information on reserved slices?

2006-11-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I have noticed that they create two > slices during the install that seem to be used for > some sort of system thing, but I can't find any > information about them. > > The first i usually tagged boot and in the first > cylinder on the disk. Being a computer guy for a lot > of years, I'm guessin

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool > > +1 > > The tool belongs on opensolaris.org +1 on the provision that it doesn't only submit the data to bigadmin. One of the reasons why Ubuntu has flourished is because of their hwinfo tool that provides feedback on wha

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool +1 The tool belongs on opensolaris.org Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool

2006-11-03 Thread Sujit Karataparambil Madhavan
>Project Proposal: Device Detection Tool >I propose a project on opensolaris.org for the creation of Device Detection >Tool. This tool is a handy tool to check devices against a database. Could you tell us where this database is maintained. WWW seems to be the place This message posted from