Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Manoj Joseph
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Grub in the MBR. installgrub in Solaris overwrites the whole sector > which would destroy the disk signature. Do you know if this is different from how grub in Linux does it? Regards, Manoj ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Manoj Joseph wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> Manoj Joseph wrote: >> >>> Moinak Ghosh wrote: >>> >>> Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR "must" have the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition "must" be marked as active. In fact Vista won't even i

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Manoj Joseph
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Manoj Joseph wrote: >> Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >>> Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR "must" have >>> the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition "must" be marked as active. >>> In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not >>> active. T

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Manoj Joseph wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR "must" have >> the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition "must" be marked as active. >> In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not >> active. Typically the scenario if one

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Manoj Joseph
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR "must" have > the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition "must" be marked as active. > In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not > active. Typically the scenario if one has been dual-booting Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Shawn Walker wrote: > On 28/03/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mitsuru Sasanuma of Sun's Japan team posted a set of SXDE >> installation slides that I feel are closest to what I have been >> doing. (Perhaps there are other equivalent screenshots available, but >> I am just not awar

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 on Inspiron 6000

2007-03-28 Thread Dmitri D
Hey tyndie! Did you finally manage to configure your wireless connection? I installed iwi/wificonfig and still can NOT make my wireless connection work. can any of you guys help? it'll be really appreciated. thanks in advance. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Mess

2007-03-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> so I'm > dbl-checking that the problem you cite is fixed in > b57 (our target). Much appreciated, any starter kit > questions may also be directed to the starter kit > discussion list in future, if you have need. > > Regards, > Michelle Hi Michelle, Thanks a whole bunch for posting this info.

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 28/03/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mitsuru Sasanuma of Sun's Japan team posted a set of SXDE installation slides that I feel are closest to what I have been doing. (Perhaps there are other equivalent screenshots available, but I am just not aware of.) It started with resi

[osol-discuss] cle usb wifi

2007-03-28 Thread defer
Bonjour, Comment procéder pour installer et configurer une cle usb wifi (netgear wpn111) sur Sun Solaris 10 x86. Y a t'il un utilitaire qui permet de détecter automatiquement les péripheriques usb ? Merci de vos réponses. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Second, how do I take screenshots during Solaris installation? Thanks. The easiest way I know of is to cheat, and run the install in a virtual machine (like VMWare or Parallels) under another OS that allows you to capture the screen without running any programs on that sc

[osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Mitsuru Sasanuma of Sun's Japan team posted a set of SXDE installation slides that I feel are closest to what I have been doing. (Perhaps there are other equivalent screenshots available, but I am just not aware of.) It started with resizing the Windows partition with qparted (as part of the K

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-03-28 Thread John Plocher
Javier O. Augusto wrote: MC wrote: [..] Sometimes choice is bad. erm, when? When the number of choices is overwhelming and don't differ in user-discernible ways, the multitude of choices becomes an overwhelming barrier to entry/use. Just because it can be configured does not mean that I

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: SXCE Build 60 available

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
After every release someone always ask what is new in it and I think it is a valid question, which is not always easy to find out. I think it is a little unfair to pass the buck to one group to keep this up to date, so why don't we ask all Communities to have a page on there home site to tell us

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Using isaexec approach

2007-03-28 Thread James Carlson
Durga Deep Tirunagari writes: > Thanks for your replies > > A follow up question is what happens to any dynamically allocated memory > (using malloc / realloc ) before the execve ( or isaexec ). Do we need to > explicitly take care of it, or allocating on a stack would be a better option The w

[osol-discuss] Re: Using isaexec approach

2007-03-28 Thread Durga Deep Tirunagari
Thanks for your replies A follow up question is what happens to any dynamically allocated memory (using malloc / realloc ) before the execve ( or isaexec ). Do we need to explicitly take care of it, or allocating on a stack would be a better option Thanks in Advance _D This message posted

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Mess

2007-03-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> so I'm > dbl-checking that the problem you cite is fixed in > b57 (our target). future, if you have need. > > Regards, > Michelle Hi Michell, Thanks a whole bunch for posting this info. I didn't download b57, but as of b59 and b60, the flash subject still exists. If I were the person in ch

[osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-03-28 Thread Cyril Plisko
There is an interesting thread rolling on on arc-discuss mailing list[1]. So I decided to try to take this to the [ON] consolidation level. I wanted to discuss the open/closed PSARC case integration issue with the ON C-Team on the ON consolidation mailing list. Apparently, ON consolidation does no

Re: [osol-discuss] Should RFE's expire?

2007-03-28 Thread James Carlson
Bob Palowoda writes: > I know this might be a touchy subject but is it reasonable to close RFE's > that are more > than a year old with some evaluation? It depends on the evaluation, I believe. For RFEs (and bugs for that matter) where the issue no longer matters for some reason -- e.g., RFEs ag

Re: [osol-discuss] Should RFE's expire?

2007-03-28 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Bob Palowoda wrote: I know this might be a touchy subject but is it reasonable to close RFE's that are more than a year old with some evaluation? There are RFE that can last greater than 5 to 10 years and it leaves the Open Solaris developers wondering what types of evalu

[osol-discuss] Should RFE's expire?

2007-03-28 Thread Bob Palowoda
I know this might be a touchy subject but is it reasonable to close RFE's that are more than a year old with some evaluation? There are RFE that can last greater than 5 to 10 years and it leaves the Open Solaris developers wondering what types of evaluations or comments are going on in the bac

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Mess

2007-03-28 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi Wayne, Thanks for bringing this to the main list again, I only just now saw it. We are preparing a new order of kits with updated bits as-we-speak, so I'm dbl-checking that the problem you cite is fixed in b57 (our target). Much appreciated, any starter kit questions may also be directed to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Proposal: new project for improving ON build times

2007-03-28 Thread Stephen Lau
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:34:55AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > "akolb" == Alexander Kolbasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > akolb> I do not see a problem of this being just a part of tools-discuss > akolb> and ONNV project either if owners of both agree with your > akolb> opinion. > > Keit

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Mess

2007-03-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
>Wayne, > > Thank you again for reporting the problem. > > We have identified the root cause, why the mistake > was made. We reused > the names posted on an official ISO web site without > careful review. We > learned a lesson that we really should have paid > closer attention to > all strings ev

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-03-28 Thread Javier O. Augusto
MC wrote: > [..] > Sometimes choice is bad. > erm, when? two bottles of poisoned water doesn't count! ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Installing Sol 10 x86 on Dell Latitude D820 Laptop

2007-03-28 Thread Chris
Hi Gurus, I'm trying to configure my laptop as dual boot (window xp and sol 10 1/06). I window on a 1st partition (20GB) without any problems; however, when I try installing sol 10 onto the rest of the disk, I can't use a default interactive install because everytime it checks a resolution, it

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG March Meeting Announcement (3/29/2007)

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Walker
== Reminder: this meeting is tomorrow == Also, we will briefly talk about the Project Blackbox tour that is coming to the Denver area April 12-13. More information is at: http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox == Reminder: this meeting is tomorrow == This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User

Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-03-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 28/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Casper, >I did try it. It works perfect! >Howerver, the issue is not about case convert. It's tr sending >unexpected output. sometimes even core dumped. >I 'm not sure SUN would take it as a bug or not. >e.g >echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr

[osol-discuss] Re: create image disk from solaris 10

2007-03-28 Thread UNIX admin
> when I have 3 partition, it is enough if I use > flarcreate -n cleanSol10.flar -c -S -R / > /export/home/cleanSol10.flar > > Later if I restore whole disk every partition > restore?? Solaris does not use partitions. Rather, it uses slices inside of a BIOS partition on i86pc, and just slices on

[osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Proposal: new project for improving ON build times

2007-03-28 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "akolb" == Alexander Kolbasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: akolb> I do not see a problem of this being just a part of tools-discuss akolb> and ONNV project either if owners of both agree with your akolb> opinion. Keith is the formal owner of tools-discuss. But speaking as one of the Tools c

[osol-discuss] Re: solaris 10 installation failure

2007-03-28 Thread UNIX admin
Please boot to single user mode by typing "e" in the GRUB menu, then selecting the "multiboot" or "kernel" entry and adding "-s" at the end of it. After You boot into single user mode, execute /usr/sbin/prtconf -pv and post the output here. Alternatively download and burn the Sun install check

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-03-28 Thread MC
> So aside from more eye candy, I really > don't see what either > KDE or GNOME do that CDE doesn't. http://www.gnomefiles.org/ http://www.kde-apps.org/ Aren't those some answers to that question? :) IMHO the best thing an operating system such as Solaris can do is pick an appropriate UI solut

Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-03-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>Hi Casper, >I did try it. It works perfect! >Howerver, the issue is not about case convert. It's tr sending >unexpected output. sometimes even core dumped. >I 'm not sure SUN would take it as a bug or not. >e.g >echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]' Well, the fact that I get: Segmentation

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SXCE Build 60 available

2007-03-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Does Build 60 allow hot plugging of external video (in a laptop)? Thanks. Sure, but unless you specially configured your xorg.conf to force the external port always on, you won't get a picture until you restart X. Adding screens to running configs is a feature of the ne

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nicolas Linkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's really good news. > > The next big bang may be: Jörg Schilling is joining Debian. > Everything seems possible ;) The idea behind Debian was good and still is good. The problem with Debian today is that too many people inside do no longer follo

[osol-discuss] solaris 10 installation failure

2007-03-28 Thread Philip Binu
solaris 10 failing on vista business, T60 2623p3u model number, created the iso image i'm ok upto the installing part, then i get this message no disk found , i have created partition with 20 gig, ntfs and FAT. well the this message disk error, this is really frustrating, anyone please HELP!

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-03-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 27/03/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: have more potential, I think KDE is a lot slicker and faster feeling right now; and from what little I've seen of either, the apps typically with KDE seem more to my liking as well. But on We can argue preference all day, but in the e

[osol-discuss] blank bios?

2007-03-28 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I've noticed more than once cases where a community or project leader or observer had a blank bio. While I can see not _requiring_ bios, I think that at least persons with a particular role (those mentioned, plus CAB/OGB members or candidates), and perhaps Sun, Tadpole (General Dynamics), Fujitsu

[osol-discuss] Re: create image disk from solaris 10

2007-03-28 Thread lukas
> flarcreate(1M) aka Flash(TM)? > > Read up on it on docs.sun.com. when I have 3 partition, it is enough if I use flarcreate -n cleanSol10.flar -c -S -R / /export/home/cleanSol10.flar Later if I restore whole disk every partition restore?? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___