Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-03-06 Thread Virginia Wray
On 03/03/09 16:58, jonathon driscoll wrote: Ditto. Using Virtualbox 2.14 on OS X 10.5.6... Opensolaris 2008-11. Install got stuck at 99% for a very long time at least 10 minutes Then magically, it just completed and asked me to reboot. Weird. I have snap'd a new BE, so if anyone neede

[osol-discuss] [ Fwd: USB image]

2008-08-28 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi - I'm forwarding this for Arnaud. ginnie Original Message Subject:Fwd: USB image Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:51:56 -0600 From: Arnaud LACOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Forwarded message ---

Re: [osol-discuss] Create a bootable installation image

2007-11-30 Thread Virginia Wray
Here is an example of the format I follow to create iso images. # mkdir dir1 # ls -al total 6 drwx-- 3 root root 512 Nov 30 09:30 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Nov 5 14:34 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Nov 30 09:30 dir1 # mkisofs -l -o dir1.iso dir1 To

[osol-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] Three screencasts of OpenSolaris Technologies

2007-03-07 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi - The dual boot installation screencast is included as part of the OpenSolaris Starter kit. Dave Hagerty and I originally developed this as a presentation for a FROSUG user group meeting, and we were invited to turn it into a screencast. Maybe a link to screencasts should live on the doc

Re: [osol-discuss] HOWTO: Installing GRUB on USB stick

2005-08-24 Thread Virginia Wray
Thanks Eric. g Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Virginia Wray wrote: > >>Hi - >> >>If this is something that would benefit users, would it be useful to >>post somewhere other than in an email? > > > I'd say yes, definitely. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] HOWTO: Installing GRUB on USB stick

2005-08-24 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi - If this is something that would benefit users, would it be useful to post somewhere other than in an email? I'm collecting procedures that I've seen come through email to begin posting one a documentation page for OpenSolaris. Thanks, ginnie Stephen Lau wrote: > Great detailed howto Magnus

Re: [osol-discuss] Location of the developer's reference guide is not obvious for a new comer

2005-08-08 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi Nickolay - I'm a member of the documentation community. I'm working with others to develop the documentation presence on the OpenSolaris site. I think this is great feedback I am in the process of creating an index for the documentation that is scattered around the web site and as you suggest

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: User Groups Community Opened

2005-07-28 Thread Virginia Wray
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2005 09:37 am, Lisa Week wrote: Thanks for the update and yes it is possible for us to join. As you may have already seen from her email, Ginnie Wray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is going to be setting this up for the (Colorado) Front Range OpenSolaris User Group.

[osol-discuss] Re: [docs-discuss] Assignments

2005-07-27 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi Radu - If you are inquiring about documentation, some of us in the community are just beginning to address the need for a documentation project on the OpenSolaris site and welcome input on how this could be developed. If you have a documentation contribution in mind, feel free to contact

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-21 Thread Virginia Wray
Thanks. I'll be asking for yours also if this is written up as a procedure. :) ginnie UNIX admin wrote: I'm a tech writer at Sun. I'm going to review this information and get back to you about adding this procedure to the docs.sun.com documentation. I'd be interested in any feedback and su

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi David - I'm a tech writer at Sun. I'm going to review this information and get back to you about adding this procedure to the docs.sun.com documentation. Thanks, Ginnie David J. Orman wrote: That feedback was excellent, that was extremely helpful. I'm sure it would help a lot of other pe

[osol-discuss] Creating an Index for the site

2005-07-19 Thread Virginia Wray
The Gentoo Linux web site has an index page that lists all of the documentation on the site...something similar to this is what I have in mind for the OpenSolaris site. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml I haven't seen any process for submitting documentation to the OpenSolaris site. How is

Re: [osol-discuss] Articles

2005-07-14 Thread Virginia Wray
:) ). I also like Rich's idea of having a documentation link added to the LH nav bar. That would provide a great portal to the archive. Thanks for hiring me Jim. :) Ginnie Jim Grisanzio wrote: Virginia Wray wrote: Hi - I would like to throw out a suggestion. I think that the documentatio

Re: [osol-discuss] Articles

2005-07-13 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi - I would like to throw out a suggestion. I think that the documentation on the site is already becoming scattered in a way that is going to make it less user friendly for people to find what they are looking for. I did a page-by-page look for all documentation on the OpenSolaris site, and

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [docs-discuss] OpenSoalris Documentation tool ?]

2005-07-13 Thread Virginia Wray
Hi TJ - What type of documentation are you interested in contributing? If you want to contribute to the System Administration documentation at docs.sun.com, currently you would work with a sponsor to add your contribution. For other documentation, as far as I know there has not been a single do