Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Anil Gulecha wrote: > If you can hack around with the scripts, you can add this to BeleniX, > the opensolaris LiveCD. > > If your application isnt very big (under 1 mb).. you can easily add that > to the miniroot of BeleniX, so the distributed version (On USB or CD) > will contian your appli

[osol-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-18 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi, I want to get various disk parameters including disk serial numbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper with OpenSoalris? Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on Solaris? Regards, _Atul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan
Ehlo, Belenix is Ok. I have read and install Belenix ... and downloading the remastering kit. Not yet success. Anyway, i have FTP access @Home, not @Office. with speed just 5kbs :D In your opinion which one is more appropriate for "server" ? As i see Belenix is targeted to "DESKTOP", i prefer Sch

[osol-discuss] Re: Another cool video (Was: Three screencasts of OpenSolaris Technologies

2007-04-18 Thread John Brewer
It's a very nice video, two issues, one the MB they had picked has a USB issue on the kernel boot sequence and second the video is low resolution, which suggest the vender ID and device number for this video card used in the video is not supported is, you can tell by the big desktop icons and t

[osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-18 Thread LingBo Tang
This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download and try for fun: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole/Downloads/ There is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - WAN Boot Installation Limitations

2007-04-18 Thread Ian Collins
Subramanian Chockalingam wrote: >Hi, > >I have production Sun Fire v240's with Solaris 9 running and planning to >upgrade to Solaris 10. > Please try and stay on topic, OpenSolaris. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - WAN Boot Installation Limitations

2007-04-18 Thread G N S
On 4/19/07, Subramanian Chockalingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have production Sun Fire v240's with Solaris 9 running and planning to upgrade to Solaris 10. Its all to be done through WAN Boot Installation using Flash Archive. What I'm worried about the limitation of Solaris 10 WAN boot allo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will agree with creating two partitions, The Solaris installer only seems to see the FAT32 file system correctly, from when it calls fdisk from what I can tell the code is not still not yet there, and there should be a RFE for including NT

[osol-discuss] Re: Another cool video (Was: Three screencasts of OpenSolaris Technologies

2007-04-18 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi all, The installation video has been updated to post-nv_55 installer for your use. Thanks to Mike Patino, Ginnie Wray, and Lynne Thompson for their hard work to do this. For the updated installation video, see http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07C00892/media/demos/OpenSolarisDualBoot-

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - WAN Boot Installation Limitations

2007-04-18 Thread Subramanian Chockalingam
Hi, I have production Sun Fire v240's with Solaris 9 running and planning to upgrade to Solaris 10. Its all to be done through WAN Boot Installation using Flash Archive. What I'm worried about the limitation of Solaris 10 WAN boot allowing only 2 GBytes image and fails if its more? Is this only

[osol-discuss] Re: solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-18 Thread John Brewer
I will agree with creating two partitions, The Solaris installer only seems to see the FAT32 file system correctly, from when it calls fdisk from what I can tell the code is not still not yet there, and there should be a RFE for including NTFS. and so if you do not setup even just a small parti

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, xiaoming zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I'd like to play the Solaris Express, but I cannot spend much effort/time to debug the kernel, I just want to have a simple tool/way to update/recover the system. If you install Solaris Express, that's exactly what you're opening yoursel

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, Thomas Rampelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: > On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That is not my problem. I would not bother about this >> if I was more than happy to drop in a DVD or a bunch >> of CDs to 'upgrade' each box > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, xiaoming zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/18/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solaris 10 already supports that feature if you use Sun Update > Manager, if you're talking about updating. I have a question please: Does Solaris 10 support to boot directly from ZFS no

[osol-discuss] Install Error

2007-04-18 Thread Glenn Williams
When I try and install Solaris 10 it asks for the software 5 disk. I do not know what it is asking for. It says I can skip the install but then it just wants to reboot and it comes back to the same place asking for the software 5 disk. Can anyone help??? This message posted from opensolar

[osol-discuss] zfs boot image patching kit available

2007-04-18 Thread Lori Alt
This is mainly of interest to the zfs-discuss alias, but I had said I would post the availability of this kit to the main alias too, so here it is: This tarball; http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/zfsboot-kit-20060418.i386.tar.bz2 contains the necessary files for patching an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, not Packaging, documentation

2007-04-18 Thread Christopher Mahan
From: Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Google indexes PDFs now, and I have gotten hit results from google >searches that were from docs.sun.com many times. When I want to get a snippet of info, I much prefer a web page than a 90 page PDF. When I want to explore a subject in depth, I much pr

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Latest opensolaris VMware image

2007-04-18 Thread DFA
Correct, there are the four images you referenced available on this page: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp Those are the past 3 Solaris 10 releasese plus the current Solaris Express Developer Edition. But if you dig down one layer to the Solaris Express, Develo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:13 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > If you're talking about *ugprading* between releases, it is not > flawless for Ubuntu. I should know, that's the only Linux distribution > I run. Indeed-- I find myself doing a complete Ubuntu reinstall every few months, because continually

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS mounted Home Directories

2007-04-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Tom Haynes wrote: Elton wrote: I have setup a small (5 machines) development/test network using Solaris 10 11/06 (I know this is an OpenSolaris forum). I have an LDAP server configured and running which also serves as the Home Directory Server. The problem I have encountered is when users a

[osol-discuss] Re: NFS mounted Home Directories

2007-04-18 Thread Elton
Also, since I am running LDAP the setup instructions for LDAP include loading all the auto_mount files into the directory server. But, in the Home Dir setup Instructions the user is instructed to set automount: to files in the nsswitch.conf file? Not sure why, what is the purpose of loading th

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS mounted Home Directories

2007-04-18 Thread Tom Haynes
Elton wrote: I have setup a small (5 machines) development/test network using Solaris 10 11/06 (I know this is an OpenSolaris forum). I have an LDAP server configured and running which also serves as the Home Directory Server. The problem I have encountered is when users access there machines

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
lloy0076 wrote: This discussion seems to be spinning around in circles. There is a lot of benefit to an "apt" like packaging system but clearly a good number of organisations and individuals have gotten by with Solaris without such a packaging system. That is neither wrong, nor right. It just

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
Shawn Walker wrote: On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is not my problem. I would not bother about this if I was more than happy to drop in a DVD or a bunch of CDs to 'upgrade' each box Except you don't even have to do that. All you need is an ISO image, n

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
Shawn Walker wrote: On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you. the concept of apt/yum repositories seems to be very alien here. No, it is not. You just have a hard time believing that we don't embrace it as the "one true way" of doing things. I think the poi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread xiaoming zhu
First of all, thank you answer my questions. On 4/18/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I doubt it. BFU is meant for an ad-hoc update on a single system for a Solaris developer. Not end user, not sysadmin, but a developer. Which implies that said developer has an indepth understanding of Solari

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
Shawn Walker wrote: Sun Connection is very easy to use to manage updates and is all you're likely to need in a *production* environment. So I don't understand your compliant. Given that you have never indicated actual usage of it, I think it is unfair for you to be critical of it. Upgrades are e

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread UNIX admin
> This problem is not related to the update manager > from what I know. > Instead, this seems to be a problem with Sun's patch > database (which > continues to have issues). That might be so, but the net end result is still the same: it does not work correctly and especially not to my satisfactio

[osol-discuss] NFS mounted Home Directories

2007-04-18 Thread Elton
I have setup a small (5 machines) development/test network using Solaris 10 11/06 (I know this is an OpenSolaris forum). I have an LDAP server configured and running which also serves as the Home Directory Server. The problem I have encountered is when users access there machines they can not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* xiaoming zhu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 4/18/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Solaris 10 already supports that feature if you use Sun Update > >Manager, if you're talking about updating. > > > I have a question please: > > Does Solaris 10 support to boot directly fro

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread xiaoming zhu
On 4/18/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solaris 10 already supports that feature if you use Sun Update Manager, if you're talking about updating. I have a question please: Does Solaris 10 support to boot directly from ZFS now? How can I update to this feature with Solaris 10? I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As soon as Ubuntu supported "click this button to upgrade your entire OS flawlessly from the internet", that feature became a standard for everyone to meet. I take it as a given that Solaris/OpenSolaris will eventually support such a feature. I hope

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can be critical of the Sun Update Connection because I was a paying customer for one year. To be fair and objective (and not be a "Sun PR channel", as some feel) Sun Update connection never worked right. It shows patches for Solaris 8 on a Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, Manish Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I downloaded the tarball and it got built in SXDE with any modifications (using the bundled Sun Studio 11) It has pretty looking GTK fonts and icons. Now my question is: how do i make a .pkg out of it? (it is clear the vim7.0

[osol-discuss] Contributor Agreemtn

2007-04-18 Thread Ceri Davies
Section 1 of the Contributor Agreement [1] states: 1. Contribution means any source code, object code, patch, tool, sample, graphic, specification, manual, documentation, e-mail, comment, posting, communication or any other material posted or submitted by You to a Project. Am I c

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: installation solaris 10 in SATA HDD, with new configuration

2007-04-18 Thread James C. McPherson
Amey Abhyankar wrote: I am curious to know if you select ZFS file system while installing Solaris 10 on a SATA hdd. Not currently possible. The work required to do this has not been completed yet. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems __

[osol-discuss] Re: installation solaris 10 in SATA HDD, with new configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Amey Abhyankar
I am curious to know if you select ZFS file system while installing Solaris 10 on a SATA hdd. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-18 Thread Amey Abhyankar
Very imp question is what is the size of your hdd ? I strongly recomand to make 2 partitions for Windows XP Leave remaining space for Solaris. - Format C:/ drive with [b]NTFS[/b] file system - Format D:/ drive with [b]FAT32[/b] file system I am not Soalris expert, but most linux OS's dont

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Anil Gulecha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can hack around with the scripts, you can add this to BeleniX, the > opensolaris LiveCD. > > If your application isnt very big (under 1 mb).. you can easily add that to > the miniroot of BeleniX, so the distributed version (On USB or CD) will > co

[osol-discuss] Thank you Sun Microsystems

2007-04-18 Thread Amey Abhyankar
I joined this forum several weeks ago. I sent message here regarding to delivery of "Solaris 10 OS" kit & also "Start kit" . I did not receive it. I sent order in early 2006. Well, today I received "Solaris 10 OS" kit which contains 3 DVD's. 1 DVD contains Solaris 10 for x86 systems, other DV

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/14/07, Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, i am new to Open Solaris, but have a demand to have my own OpenSolaris installer, which basically a simple design like this : Add a software (e.g Moodle learning management software) as pre-installed so that, if i distri

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan
Hello, Thanks, but webstart is actually request user to "install separately" ... what we require is adding a pre-installed application, which require no user interaction. Furthermore, we need to remove some package from Solaris, which not required anymore. Best regards, Eko Budhi S On Fri, 200

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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 62 delayed

2007-04-18 Thread Harry Lu
No. GNOME 2.18 is targeted to B65 now. Please see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/documents/jds_schedule/ Harry On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:52 -0700, Girts Zeltins wrote: > Hello, > > Will it be based on GNOME 2.18? > > Regards, > Girts > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No system to date is without sacrifice in some way for Solaris. I'd like > to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be itself. I mean this in > regards to pkgsrc wanting things in /usr/pkg, belenix wanting /usr/foss, > and even Solaris using /usr/sf

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> > In practice, the convenience approach can only work > so much, until the > > whole model collapses. It might work very well for > a single desktop > > system, but after a certain people to systems > ratio, the whole model > > can't support the needs of the user or users any > more. > > > > U

[osol-discuss] Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-18 Thread mario heimel
metadbs on two local disks is a common used configuration. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org