[indiana-discuss] easy command to display disks present in a server?

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
What's the easiest/best command to use to display a list of disks in a server? I want to create a raidz2 filesystem and I'm looking for something like an fdisk -l on Linux. The server is running 08.11 snv_98 and fdisk -l doesn't work, plus format puts me into an interactive session and I

Re: [indiana-discuss] OSOL-2008.11-b99 global ISO corrupted on Genunix??

2008-10-15 Thread Yiannis Mavroukakis
I've just installed from the torrent of the latest iso, everything worked out fine. Ken Mays wrote: Hello, I just downloaded and burned a copy of OSOL-2008.11-b99 the same way I've done for the previous builds. Oddly, this ISO failed to boot fully. So, three things. Either my trusty CD

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 99)

2008-10-15 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 10/15/08 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenSolaris development package repository http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_99 including an update to GNOME 2.23.91, PHP 5.2.6, Python 2.5, drivers for the Areca SAS/SATA RAID and Intel(R) WiFi

Re: [indiana-discuss] gnome-appearance-properties won't start with nVidia and b99

2008-10-15 Thread Henry Jen
The attachment is over the 40K limit, let me know if you need it, I can forward it to you. Cheers, Henry 2008/10/15 Henry Jen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Upgrade to b99 from b95, in general I like the changes but font is small(as reported by others), so I trying to change the font and found that

[indiana-discuss] adding another disk to rpool to create a mirror

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I need help again, this time with adding another disk to the rpool zpool that was created when I installed opensolaris so I can have a mirrored pool. Server is an x4500 and running opensolaris snv_99, I'm still new to opensolaris and zfs so it's probably my lack of knowledge that is causing

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 99)

2008-10-15 Thread Rob McMahon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenSolaris development package repository http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_99 including an update to GNOME 2.23.91, PHP 5.2.6, Python 2.5, drivers for the Areca SAS/SATA RAID and Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 as

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 99)

2008-10-15 Thread Rob McMahon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenSolaris development package repository http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_99 including an update to GNOME 2.23.91, PHP 5.2.6, Python 2.5, drivers for the Areca SAS/SATA RAID and Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 as

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 99)

2008-10-15 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 10:41 +0200, C. Bergström wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OpenSolaris development package repository http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_99 including an update to GNOME 2.23.91, PHP 5.2.6, Python 2.5 This is great

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration got wiped. How can I boot into my system to restore my grub configuration (I'm not quite sure how I'd specify the root partition on a system with

Re: [indiana-discuss] OSOL-2008.11-b99 global ISO corrupted on Genunix??

2008-10-15 Thread Dave Miner
ken mays wrote: Dave, Oh, I meant during installation procedure from RAM. I validated the MD5 signature with my download images (so, the downloaded images are good for both the computers I downloaded to). The issue I discovered is that something changed in the actual installer for

Re: [indiana-discuss] gnome-appearance-properties won't start with nVidia and b99

2008-10-15 Thread Henry Jen
Sigh, NVDA is all screwed up(see below). But following seems to correct things for me. # pkgrm NVDAgraphicsr # pkgrm NVDAgraphics # pkg uninstall NVDAgraphics # pkg install NVDAgraphics Is there a way to force pkg to install a package instead of uninstall and install again? Cheers, Henry

Re: [indiana-discuss] OSOL-2008.11-b99 global ISO corrupted on Genunix??

2008-10-15 Thread ken mays
Thanks, Dave. Yet, I just confirmed it is not a bad download nor my disc drive as I just downloaded the image again on an alternate computer for the burn with a different reference disc burner. I downloaded OSOL-b98 just fine using the same procedures and computers. ;o) The fail with comes

Re: [indiana-discuss] OSOL-2008.11-b99 global ISO corrupted on Genunix??

2008-10-15 Thread ken mays
Dave, Oh, I meant during installation procedure from RAM. I validated the MD5 signature with my download images (so, the downloaded images are good for both the computers I downloaded to). The issue I discovered is that something changed in the actual installer for OSOL2008.11-b99 ISOs. The

Re: [indiana-discuss] OSOL-2008.11-b99 global ISO corrupted on Genunix??

2008-10-15 Thread ken mays
Dave, Oh, I meant during installation procedure from RAM. I validated the MD5 signature with my download images (so, the downloaded images are good for both the computers I downloaded to). The issue I discovered is that something changed in the actual installer for OSOL2008.11-b99 ISOs. The

[indiana-discuss] Screensaver config

2008-10-15 Thread andrew
I changed to one of the 3D secreensavers as I was looking through them, and it seems to have broken X - the X server seems to die and I get put back to the text console but it won't accept any input. Logging in from another machine via SSH reveals Xorg is chewing a whole CPU core of processor

Re: [indiana-discuss] Screensaver config

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
andrew wrote: I changed to one of the 3D secreensavers as I was looking through them, and it seems to have broken X - the X server seems to die and I get put back to the text console but it won't accept any input. Logging in from another machine via SSH reveals Xorg is chewing a whole CPU

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread Matt . Ingenthron
On 10/15/08 11:56, Stephen Le wrote: I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration got wiped. How can I boot into my system to restore my grub configuration (I'm not quite sure how I'd specify the

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread Ethan Quach
Did either of you upgrade the zpool version before rebooting by any chance? -ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/08 11:56, Stephen Le wrote: I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration

Re: [indiana-discuss] gnome-appearance-properties won't start with nVidia and b99

2008-10-15 Thread Bart Smaalders
Henry Jen wrote: Sigh, NVDA is all screwed up(see below). But following seems to correct things for me. # pkgrm NVDAgraphicsr # pkgrm NVDAgraphics # pkg uninstall NVDAgraphics # pkg install NVDAgraphics Is there a way to force pkg to install a package instead of uninstall and install

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread Sanjay Nadkarni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration got wiped. How can I boot into my system to restore my grub configuration (I'm not quite sure how I'd specify the root partition

Re: [indiana-discuss] gnome-appearance-properties won't start with nVidia and b99

2008-10-15 Thread Henry Jen
That would be great, looking forward to it. Thanks for the info, Bart. Cheers, Henry 2008/10/15 Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Henry Jen wrote: Sigh, NVDA is all screwed up(see below). But following seems to correct things for me. # pkgrm NVDAgraphicsr # pkgrm NVDAgraphics # pkg

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread Glynn Foster
On 16/10/2008, at 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/15/08 11:56, Stephen Le wrote: I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration got wiped. How can I boot into my system to restore my grub

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-15 Thread James Cornell
Shawn Walker wrote: James Cornell wrote: Only hardcore engineers are using Solaris, all of the front-ends use Windows and all of the hr and pr people use Mac laptops. Part of the Sorry, but that also isn't true. There are many non-engineering folks that are running Solaris or using

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
James Cornell wrote: Only hardcore engineers are using Solaris, all of the front-ends use Windows and all of the hr and pr people use Mac laptops. Part of the Sorry, but that also isn't true. There are many non-engineering folks that are running Solaris or using SunRays too.

[indiana-discuss] need help building pidgeon from SFE on a snv_98 base

2008-10-15 Thread Brett
S I decided to have a go at my first build of something from SFE. I chose Pidgin because the one packaged with snv_98 (v2.4.3) crashes consistently unless I mute sounds, presumably due to the fact i currently have no working sound driver. I thought there was a chance this bug may

Re: [indiana-discuss] need help building pidgeon from SFE on a snv_98 base

2008-10-15 Thread Gilles Gravier
Title: E-mail Signature Sun 2006 Hi! These are my instructions for building pidgin on a clean OpenSolaris system : pfexec pkg install sunstudioexpress SUNWgmake SUNWperl-xml-parser SUNWxorg-headers SUNWgnome-common-devel cd PIDGIN-BUILD-DIR ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-perl

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 - 99

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Le
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just performed an image-update from b98 to b99. On reboot, the boot process stops at a grub prompt, suggesting that my grub configuration got wiped. How can I boot into my system to restore my grub configuration (I'm not quite sure