Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread S h i v
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We > >> haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority > >> of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also > >> inv

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: > I wonder what it would take to change that crazy "small root, the rest for > /export/home/" layout? Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed the default layout. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as > the guest OS. > You mean with Solaris as a "host" OS? Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> >> I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We >> haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority >> of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also >> investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread UNIX admin
> During the install of Developer's install: > I miss the opportunity to layout filesystems within > my Solaris 2 > partition. After I have chosen how I want to > partition my harddisk I > get some inqueries regarding Location, Timezone, root > password etc. > after which the installer just starts

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Lees wrote: > i haven't seen the pics, but my guess is that they're what the developers had > to hand rather than the likely final product. Have you seen www.sun.com in the last two years? Random photos, sometimes claiming to show the global impact of technology, other times inexplicable,

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Lees
> One thing that did jar me the wrong way were the > silly childish looking > images that were selected for the installed. I have > no clue way anyone would > place images of icecream and a yellow construction > roller into an installer > for Solaris. In a company of vast technology that > creates

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread Manish Chakravarty
> I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We > haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority > of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also > investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if there

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
> # fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 | more > hsfs Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence mountable as either hsfs and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's what HAL will use. One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion we treat hybrid data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog a

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 18:05 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. > >> > >> For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft > >> Windows > >> Vista Business Edition DVD into my

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Dennis , I agree with you that SNV70 is not mounting a Vista UDFS dvd correctly I did a clean Install of Snv_70 on a new disc ( a 10.000 rpm disc which contributes nicely to the speed of the system btw ) The automount by HAL and rmmount did not mount the UDF filesystem Al

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP

2007-08-19 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > The Netra HA suite actually does, though I may not have known it at > the time you asked (which I don't recall, to be honest ;-) That's OK, it was eons ago. :) > I'm pretty sure, though, that I would have pointed anyone who asked > at

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. >> >> For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft >> Windows >> Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it >> would be >> automatically mounte

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. > > For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft > Windows > Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it > would be > automatically mounted but I w

Re: [osol-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Burlison
MC wrote: > This is a good post for the help forum. :) Yes, please move this thread onto opensolaris-help - thanks! -- Alan Burlison -- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it would be automatically mounted but I was wrong .. snv_70 mounted the DVD as a HSFS filesystem which it is n

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Burlison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately >> open-source code without getting permission from Novell. > > And no one here is likely to divulge the contents of confidential > contracts signed between Sun and other companies either. Sun's > lawyers a

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
No offense taken, I just feel generally bad pestering the Solaris developers. On topic: here is a closeup of Vista, Mac and Ubuntu fonts. It would be interesting to see Solaris fonts too? And maybe mail the blogger? http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=682 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP

2007-08-19 Thread Greg Potts
> Allen Wittenauer wrote: > ... > > As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server > back-end is supposed to > > be pluggable, example code was (and probably still > is) non-existent > > unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris > codebase. When I last > > asked Dave Miner about it a few years ago

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hey all, > > I just downloaded the DVD and CD version of SXCE70 and this is my > experience so far: > > First of all, the new installer looks flashy and neat. I like the looks I think it is a giant leap in the right direction but I really do hope that the old text based console installer is sti

[osol-discuss] Java package name allocations

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Tribble
Is there a registry of java package names, to avoid name clashes? For example, in jkstat, can I just use org.opensolaris.jkstat? (And what's the difference between org.opensolaris and org.opensolaris.os?) It strikes me that there ought to be a central list of package names so that we can avoid c

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I ask questions regarding OS/NET, please?

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Lau
Gueven Bay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a question regarding the "main" consolidation but I cannot find a > proper forum to ask it there. > I went here: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/discussions/ > the discussion page of the project OS/Net but there is not a forum > then I went h

[osol-discuss] Where can I ask questions regarding OS/NET, please?

2007-08-19 Thread Gueven Bay
Hi folks, I have a question regarding the "main" consolidation but I cannot find a proper forum to ask it there. I went here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/discussions/ the discussion page of the project OS/Net but there is not a forum then I went here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os

Re: [osol-discuss] sol-nv-b70-x86-dvd-iso zip files failed to

2007-08-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I hope you all know that you may write the CD with: > >> > > >> > cdrecord -v sol-nv-b70-sparc-dvd-iso-? > >> > > >> > as cdrecord combines several files to a single > >> track on a DVD. > >> > >> great feature ! > > > > Ha! With this hint, I was

[osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Patrick Ale
Hey all, I just downloaded the DVD and CD version of SXCE70 and this is my experience so far: First of all, the new installer looks flashy and neat. I like the looks :D Then some things I bumped into during the installation. CD media: - Grub presents you the option to use the Developer's insta

Re: [osol-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

2007-08-19 Thread MC
> Hi there, > > I think I have managed to confuse myself so i am > asking outright hoping for a straight answer. > > First, my situation. I have several disks of varying > sizes I would like to run as redundant storage ina > file server at home. Performance is not my number one > priority, large