Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Aloha , Sorry if my comment offended you. It was not intended. My comment that "If they don't care, why should I?" was actually intended for Sun's executives. As an example, Sun's ERI boss Mr. Sing-Yaw Wang, blogs two or three times a week. However, I have yet to find a single article that t

Re: [indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] zones w/ indiana

2008-05-02 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 02 May 2008 at 06:38AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Steffen Weiberle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My unknown is the unexpected increase in zone size due to copy on write > > of the clone as different zones diverge from the snapshot. > > Hopefully this post me

Re: [indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] zones w/ indiana

2008-05-02 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 02 May 2008 at 08:24AM, Steffen Weiberle wrote: > Dan Price wrote: > > On Thu 01 May 2008 at 11:54PM, Steffen Weiberle wrote: > >> Something to ponder as I watch the insides of my eye lids tonight. I did > >> not know that whole root zones work and sparse do not, as I only create > >> spar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Wireless in Indiana

2008-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> how about > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ ? Thanks. I found out that my wifi card is Broadcom 4318, for which there is only a 32-bit driver (via the ndiswrapper). I am not willing to boot into 32-bit, thus, I have to give up the idea of running the built-in wifi card.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Failure to install RC2a IBM x40

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Miner
James Legg wrote: > Should clarify that I actually meant to say RC2a. We need to clarify this in the note, but this is the symptom of 6690194 in the release notes: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/ What was the partitioning layout you selected? Dave > On 3 May 2008,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Failure to install RC2a IBM x40

2008-05-02 Thread James Legg
Should clarify that I actually meant to say RC2a. On 3 May 2008, at 00:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had a go at installing the RC2 version on an IBM x40 Laptop. > The system has a Pentium M and 1Gb of RAM. > > 2008.05 installation test report > > LiveCD version: 2008-04-24 > Install Media

[indiana-discuss] Failure to install RC2 IBM x40

2008-05-02 Thread mail
I've had a go at installing the RC2 version on an IBM x40 Laptop. The system has a Pentium M and 1Gb of RAM. 2008.05 installation test report LiveCD version: 2008-04-24 Install Media: Physical CD System Manufacturer: IBM System Model #: Thinkpad x40 Issues encountered: The install fails to co

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Miner
Shawn Walker wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I was wondering as to how can I get 'flar' on my Indiana RC2 system ? >> > pkg search -r flar -> returns nothing >> >> As to why 'flar' and friends are not included in the 2008.05 release, >> it's my understan

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Dave Miner
Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Sarah > I am working on creating an image for Amazon EC2. So, I needed a flar > image. > Sorry, but flash isn't going to work. What are you really trying to do? It will be much easier to help if you can explain what you're trying to accomplish. "Amazon EC2" do

Re: [indiana-discuss] WinXP on RC2a

2008-05-02 Thread Mario Goebbels
Actually, VirtualBox 1.6 is just out. It fixed that issue. And can use ZVOLs now, though you need to chmod the devfs node after each reboot. http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=6093 -mg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana

Re: [indiana-discuss] WinXP on RC2a

2008-05-02 Thread Mario Goebbels
Meanwhile, I can't get any code in a VirtualBox VM work that does a switch to protected mode, basically all 32bit and beyond operating systems, as well as DPMI applications under virtualized DOS. That's a fun one. Hoping the next VirtualBox release next week fixes that. -mg -- This message pos

[indiana-discuss] Edits to IPS chapter for dev tools

2008-05-02 Thread barbara . lundquist
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Repository: /hg/indiana/docs1 Latest revision: 4e6972eeaf230aee7d072b7d99a430072c8cd317 Total changesets: 1 Log message: Edits to IPS chapter for dev tools Files: update: ips.xml update: slim.xml update: snap.xml ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana and Solaris compatibility

2008-05-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sriram Natarajan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Clay Baenziger wrote: >> Hi Leal, >> Not all Solaris features are available in OpenSolaris (especially >> encumbered features). The Caiman Automated Install project[1] will address >> the lack of JmpStart in OpenSolaris. >> >> > where can

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana and Solaris compatibility

2008-05-02 Thread Sriram Natarajan
Clay Baenziger wrote: Hi Leal, Not all Solaris features are available in OpenSolaris (especially encumbered features). The Caiman Automated Install project[1] will address the lack of JmpStart in OpenSolaris. where can I get more information on these "encumbered features" . It is b

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana and Solaris compatibility

2008-05-02 Thread Clay Baenziger
Hi Leal, Not all Solaris features are available in OpenSolaris (especially encumbered features). The Caiman Automated Install project[1] will address the lack of JmpStart in OpenSolaris. Thank you,

[indiana-discuss] Indiana and Solaris compatibility

2008-05-02 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello all, I did see two messages about "flar" and "jumpstart", and seems like Indiana/Opensolaris in this time will not going to support this features... So, my question is: "Indiana/Opensoaris distro is supposed to integrate all gnu stuff, and to have a robust package manager and a better ins

Re: [indiana-discuss] Printer Destination

2008-05-02 Thread michelle olson
Hi Aaron, I'm not a printing expert, but the 806-0249 book is quite old, so I provide this pointer to the newest printing guide, in case it helps you: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/SYSADPRTSVCS/gfjpw.html#gfjex You might also ping the printing-discuss list. Regards, Michelle Olson Docs C

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sriram Natarajan
Sarah I am working on creating an image for Amazon EC2. So, I needed a flar image. Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Sriram, > > Didn't think it would work with ZFS and turns out there is a bug open > about this: > > 6690473 - Request to have flash support for ZFS root install. > > What do you need s

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Hi Sriram, Didn't think it would work with ZFS and turns out there is a bug open about this: 6690473 - Request to have flash support for ZFS root install. What do you need specifically about the flar? You can use zfs send and receive to send the pool data to another system for backup/replicati

[indiana-discuss] Printer Destination

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Epps
I've got a HP DeskJet 5850 that's connected to my local network that I want to setup as my primary printer. I brought up the print manager and everything was intuitive except for the "Destination" field. After reading the following... http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-0249/6j9k90228?a=view I

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Epps
I tried RC2a and it worked great. Wow, RC2a is a huge improvement over DP2; can't wait to see the finished product. Keep up the good work folks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [indiana-discuss] Wireless in Indiana

2008-05-02 Thread Andreas Frische
how about http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ ? On 5/2/08, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where is the best place to look for info/howtos re wireless, including > wireless cardbus adapters? Thanks. > > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > __

Re: [indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

2008-05-02 Thread Andreas Frische
google is your friend;) http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=windows+ahci&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 i actually followed this procedure for windows vista some time ago without any problems. anyway, with Internet access the product activ

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Lurie
Not at this time -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Lurie
At this point a text-based installation is not present. You should try OpenSolaris RC2a, it allows you to scroll the install window so that it's possible to go through the installation even with a 640x480 resolution. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Mika Borner
Not an answer, rather an additional question. Can Indiana be installed using Jumpstart/Network Installation? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailma

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sriram Natarajan
Hi I already tried that. When flar create -n ... option is given, it goes ahead and tries to find /var/sadm/install/ directory which doesn't exist in 08/05 release and simply pukes.. I very badly needed to create a flar image of my installation. Now, I am left with scratching my head... - S

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering as to how can I get 'flar' on my Indiana RC2 system ? > > pkg search -r flar -> returns nothing > > As to why 'flar' and friends are not included in the 2008.05 release, > it's my understanding that at this time the

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread David . Comay
> I was wondering as to how can I get 'flar' on my Indiana RC2 system ? > pkg search -r flar -> returns nothing As to why 'flar' and friends are not included in the 2008.05 release, it's my understanding that at this time they're encumbered. dsc ___ ind

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> As I mentioned in a separate thread: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5 > 9046&tstart=0 > > Throughout the entire first Q of 2008, I can count > only five (5) blog articles written in Chinese > relating to Solaris and/or OpenSolaris. I have said > this b/f and I am g

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I think on this particular matter we really need the "COLLECTIVE" wisdom from > Sun's ERI team (in Beijing). Then you'll have to wait a few days (May 1 - 3 is a national holiday there) and ask somewhere like i18n-discuss where they are subscribed. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> IM team will discuss this issue internally first and > then ask opinions > to wider audience. Disabling ctrl+space by default > for English locales > is one of possible options. > > Thanks, > Fuyuki > ___ As Sebastien mentioned in his reply, this is a

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Com'on, you know that too, userbase who accustomed to > Ctrl-space being IM switch key is way too large for > parties other than MS to change that unilaterally. > > There gotta to be a better way handling this. > NetBeans runs on MS Windows too, how come it doesn't > have problem with MS Ctrl-sp

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread Ivan Wang
Com'on, you know that too, userbase who accustomed to Ctrl-space being IM switch key is way too large for parties other than MS to change that unilaterally. There gotta to be a better way handling this. NetBeans runs on MS Windows too, how come it doesn't have problem with MS Ctrl-space impleme

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Dt. Hung-Sheng Tsao(LaoTsao)
not yet Aaron Epps wrote: > A couple of questions here about the OpenSolaris DP2 Live CD; first, is it > possible to boot directly into the installer rather than the LiveCD desktop > and then launching the installer? Also, how do I fire up the installer in > text mode? Since I have a widescreen

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris RC3 vs GA

2008-05-02 Thread Ché Kristo
you could always just [b]pkg image-update[/b] on the 5th of May... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Latest ISO

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Epps
Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Aaron Epps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of questions here about the OpenSolaris DP2 Live CD; first, is it > possible to boot directly into the installer rather than the LiveCD desktop > and then launching the installer? Also, how do I fire up the installer

Re: [indiana-discuss] Latest ISO

2008-05-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Aaron Epps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I download the latest version of OpenSolaris (RC2a, I believe)? We > can't use BitTorrent on our network so a direct link to the iso via HTTP/FTP > would be excellent. > -- >From Tobias: "Hi I've made the image

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 19:23 +0900, Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems wrote: > IM team will discuss this issue internally first and then ask opinions > to wider audience. Disabling ctrl+space by default for English locales > is one of possible options. IMO, this would be a good option. -Seb ___

[indiana-discuss] Latest ISO

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Epps
Where can I download the latest version of OpenSolaris (RC2a, I believe)? We can't use BitTorrent on our network so a direct link to the iso via HTTP/FTP would be excellent. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list

[indiana-discuss] Text Mode Installation

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Epps
A couple of questions here about the OpenSolaris DP2 Live CD; first, is it possible to boot directly into the installer rather than the LiveCD desktop and then launching the installer? Also, how do I fire up the installer in text mode? Since I have a widescreen monitor (HP w1907) X comes up in 6

Re: [indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

2008-05-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Mario Goebbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't switch to AHCI because then Windows freaks > > out and I can't > > boot it anymore. If I was just running Solaris, it > > would be fine. > > If it's XP, or Vista installed while in IDE mode, you have to manual

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Sriram, You can install the SVR4 pkg that contains flar on Indiana. As for whether flar will work correctly, I think in principle it would... but there could be issues with the zfs root boot stuff copying and booting successfully. Normally we would use a zfs send and receive to send the pool

Re: [indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] zones w/ indiana

2008-05-02 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 01 May 2008 at 11:54PM, Steffen Weiberle wrote: >> Something to ponder as I watch the insides of my eye lids tonight. I did >> not know that whole root zones work and sparse do not, as I only create >> sparse zones to save space, and that fails even on RC3. > > Another

Re: [indiana-discuss] Random hard drive spindown?

2008-05-02 Thread Mario Goebbels
> I can't switch to AHCI because then Windows freaks > out and I can't > boot it anymore. If I was just running Solaris, it > would be fine. If it's XP, or Vista installed while in IDE mode, you have to manually update the IDE controller in the device manager and install either the chipset-relate

Re: [indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] zones w/ indiana

2008-05-02 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Steffen Weiberle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My unknown is the unexpected increase in zone size due to copy on write > of the clone as different zones diverge from the snapshot. Hopefully this post means that deduplication has a chance of finding its way in. ht

[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris RC3 vs GA

2008-05-02 Thread Sébastien Stormacq
Hello, I downloaded from the Sun internal servers OpenSolaris 05/08 RC3 What will be the differences with the GA version next week ? Do we intent to create a new build over the week end or can I confidently start installing this release ? Thanks Seb --- Sébastien Stormacq Senior Software Ar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sriram Natarajan
If you can suggest me an alternate command to get the job done will be much appreciated as well - Sriram Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Hi > I was wondering as to how can I get 'flar' on my Indiana RC2 system ? > pkg search -r flar -> returns nothing > > thanks > sriram > ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems
Sebastien Roy wrote: > Strangely, if I disable the switcher altogether, I can't use the compose > key on my keyboard at all to compose special characters even though I'm > in a UTF-8 locale that supports them in its default character set. I > can't tell if this is a bug, or another interesting "fe

Re: [indiana-discuss] DNS problem in 2008.05 RC2

2008-05-02 Thread Vitaly Davidenko
Bart Smaalders wrote: > Vitaly Davidenko wrote: >> Thanks, Steffen >> DNS works, it happens immediately after modification of the file >> /etc/ nsswitch.conf >> It is magically that not need to restart any system service after >> modification of /etc file. >> > > The nscd stat's this file befor

[indiana-discuss] Why 'flar' is missing in Solaris 08/05 ?

2008-05-02 Thread Sriram Natarajan
Hi I was wondering as to how can I get 'flar' on my Indiana RC2 system ? pkg search -r flar -> returns nothing thanks sriram ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

2008-05-02 Thread Lurie
Yes, but if I install Linux, Windows, MacOSX, etc.. with the default installation (the European or US versions), I have no problem whatsover with using IDEs and with Ctrl-space, with OpenSolaris on the other hand the default installation already "surprises" you... -- This message posted from op

Re: [indiana-discuss] DNS problem in 2008.05 RC2

2008-05-02 Thread Vitaly Davidenko
Dave Miner wrote: Vitaly Davidenko wrote: Thanks, Steffen DNS works, it happens immediately after modification of the file /etc/ nsswitch.conf It is magically that not need to restart any system service after modification of /etc file. You should not need to modify /etc/nsswitch.conf by