Re: [indiana-discuss] Apple has dropped ZFS?

2009-06-11 Thread James Cornell
Uros Nedic wrote: As I have heard Apple didn't drop ZFS, but it is unknown when whole ZFS features will be integrated into new version of Mac OS X. They had plan to port everything already, but it looks like it'll not happen. Regards, Uros Nedic -Original Message- From:

Re: [indiana-discuss] build 111a: happyface boot - pressing escape key reboots machine

2009-05-03 Thread James Cornell
On 5/3/2009 2:40 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: There is not much visible information in the public description text for 6834260... I'm getting the following panic under VirtualBox 2.2.2 when I press a key during a build 111a happyface boot; is that the same problem? ::status debugging

Re: [indiana-discuss] Using Webex on OpenSolaris

2009-04-26 Thread James Cornell
On 4/26/2009 10:21 AM, Jim Nissen wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jim Nissen wrote: I'm currently running development build 110. I tried installing a java 1.5, but hit Motif library issues. On build 110 and later you should be able to pkg install SUNWmfrun to resolve Motif

Re: [indiana-discuss] b111a: Power Management and nwam-issue ?

2009-04-26 Thread James Cornell
A physical amp meter was the only way I could tell thanks to the bug. Draw on my laptop was 30w (Its runtime is 65w advertised assuming half to full load with only slight or no frequency control) - James On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Matt Ingenthron ingen...@cep.net wrote: Aubrey Li wrote:

Re: [indiana-discuss] build 111a: happyface boot - pressing escape key reboots machine

2009-04-25 Thread James Cornell
On 4/25/2009 9:03 PM, andrew wrote: Just a quick note to say that I retested my original build 111a VM (which is running under VMware Workstation 6.5.2 on Windows XP SP3+) and I cannot make it crash during happyface boot by pressing the ESC key. Andrew. I remember having this happen

Re: [indiana-discuss] Oracle buy SUN. The end of OpenSolaris?

2009-04-20 Thread James Cornell
On 4/20/2009 12:41 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: Will it be possible to develop / support OpenSolaris any further now SUN's been bought by Oracle? I surely hope this OS will survive. But what are the chances? They didn't kill Sleepycat's software even though it's not copyleft, so it could

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update ... ?

2009-04-17 Thread James Cornell
It's a snapshot consolidation of all packages updated since the last point in time (Which is a build). It is a differential approximation of software installed current and similar to liveupgrade, contents are upgraded and this varies between systems, but you can install specific software from a

Re: [indiana-discuss] compiz just gives blank screen and cursor on b111

2009-04-17 Thread James Cornell
I haven't heard of Compiz working on such a system, let alone OpenSolaris. - James On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Jonathan Edwards jonathan.edwa...@sun.comwrote: odd - this seemed to work the first time or so on b109, but now whenever i try and enable compiz i just get a blank screen with

Re: [indiana-discuss] Installation options for an Ultra-60

2009-04-07 Thread James Cornell
On 4/7/2009 9:09 AM, jan damborsky wrote: Hi Andrew, On 04/07/09 12:37, Andrew Gaylard wrote: Hi, I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics) It is very likely that your graphic card would not work on OpenSolaris, as only XVR-100, XVR-300, XVR-2500 are supported on

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update: where are the details?

2009-03-26 Thread James Cornell
You sure you did pkg set-authority -P -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ dev dev then installing SUNWipkg before doing pkg image-update? Should be at least a few thousand files involved and about 440mb of downloads. - James On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:16 AM, solarg wrote: hello all, i have

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update: where are the details?

2009-03-26 Thread James Cornell
I don't think you can ask it what files it grabbed after the fact... and wouldn't there be inherent dependencies on the runtime needing to be most current to use anything from the dev branch? - James On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:11 +0100, solarg wrote: James Cornell wrote: You sure you did pkg

Re: [indiana-discuss] cloning opensolaris/sparc installation?

2009-03-21 Thread James Cornell
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Hi, First of all thanks to all who've helped me get past the issues in installing opensolaris on sparc. I now have a working opensolaris installation which I want to clone to another sparc machine on the same network, currently running Solaris 10. I have sc access,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Time settings

2009-03-18 Thread James Cornell
alan mcclellan wrote: Ever since we switched to DST, the time display (in top menu bar and in the System - Administration - Time and Date Settings) is always wrong. Usually 30 - 45 minutes fast. I correct the time via the Time and Date Settings dialog, but next time I start up OSOL, the time

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on really old Sun hardware?

2009-03-18 Thread James Cornell
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: I don't understand this approach - the slowest PC-like tower/desktop box can also have OpenSolaris installed on it but will be much, much faster then the old Sun workstations. Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) It has to do with culture and knowledge of being

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on really old Sun hardware?

2009-03-17 Thread James Cornell
Rand All wrote: I'm not quite sure where to post this, but oh well. I have some really old Sun workstations, like a SparkStation 5 and an Ultra 1. I understand that OpenSolaris requires SPARCv9, so I see why the SS5 will never work with OS. But what about the Ultra 1? At the moment, it

Re: [indiana-discuss] how to create a fully functional mirror of pkg.opensolaris.org

2009-02-28 Thread James Cornell
I hit a pkg bug, which is fixed by doing pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg before trying to do image-update after switching to B107+. I'm currently upgrading to B108. - James On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Stephen Hahn s...@sun.com wrote: I suspect you hit a separate issue but, if this failure is

Re: [indiana-discuss] iiim panel doesn't start automatically

2009-02-25 Thread James Cornell
Ghee Teo wrote: Yu Xiangning wrote: Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems wrote: Hi Aubrey, Yap, I agree the feedbacks might not be enough, but we never can meet all users's need... you know. :( All locales except English (en_XX.UTF-8) still show iiim-panel by default. I don't understand

Re: [indiana-discuss] iiim panel doesn't start automatically

2009-02-24 Thread James Cornell
Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems wrote: It was based on the feedbacks we received. We assumed majority of English users won't switch keyboard layout and don't need to know/see the current IM status. Without iiim-panel and IM trigger key, users can input Latin characters by Compose key

Re: [indiana-discuss] how to create a fully functional mirror of pkg.opensolaris.org

2009-02-23 Thread James Cornell
Stephen Hahn wrote: * SHOUJIN WANG autumn.w...@webex.com [2009-02-23 07:52]: The rsync method introduced in the formal method /usr/bin/rsync -a pkg.opensolaris.org::osol_dev_files /export/pkg/file does not work. In my side, there is no respond from the pkg.opensolaris.org server.

Re: [indiana-discuss] AMD SB 750 sata controller support

2009-02-20 Thread James Cornell
George Koutras wrote: Hi community, I would appreciate any information regarding support of AMD SB 750 sata controller on opensolaris. Thnx, George ___ indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] AMD SB 750 sata controller support

2009-02-20 Thread James Cornell
George Koutras wrote: Hi James, Tried it on my quad phenom pc but opensolaris live cd failed to detect any disks. Have you got any feedback from ppl that had it working? Thnx *From:* James Cornell spar...@gmail.com *To:* George Koutras koutra...@yahoo.com *Cc:* indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] SPAM *** How to create mirror from the spare partition?

2009-02-14 Thread James Cornell
Jan Hlodan wrote: Hello, I have one disk with 3 partitions: 1. Windows - ntfs 2. OpenSolaris - zfs 3. Linux - ext3 sh-3.2# format -e Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c9d0 DEFAULT cyl 7830 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63 /p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@0/c...@0,0

Re: [indiana-discuss] SPAM *** Re: How to create mirror from the spare partition?

2009-02-14 Thread James Cornell
Jan Hlodan wrote: Hi James, thanks for the reply! Actually, my point was how to figure out what ID has Linux partition. The format command doesn't show ID. So I didn't know how to create zpool. Finally I solved my problem. I installed FSWpart and FSWfsmisc. Then I run: prtpart (find out

Re: [indiana-discuss] S10 in a zone on OpenSolaris?

2009-02-13 Thread James Cornell
Paul Fisher wrote: I apologize, as I'm not yet completely familiar with using zones, and have a simple question: Can I run Solaris 10U6 in a zone on an OpenSolaris machine? (2008.11 or /dev repo would be fine) -- paul ___ indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] S10 in a zone on OpenSolaris?

2009-02-13 Thread James Cornell
solarg wrote: James Cornell wrote: Paul Fisher wrote: I apologize, as I'm not yet completely familiar with using zones, and have a simple question: Can I run Solaris 10U6 in a zone on an OpenSolaris machine? (2008.11 or /dev repo would be fine) No, you cannot. The syscall translation

Re: [indiana-discuss] Q:Web Page Editer on opensolaris

2009-02-12 Thread James Cornell
Teresa Tian wrote: Dear all, I get a chance to give computer class to a middle school's students. The platform is opensolaris. And in my teaching plan, I want to teach them to make static webpages. So, the question is what are your most useful web page tool on opensolaris? Maybe some

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-02-11 Thread James Cornell
I agree about this. it is a quality concern, and is not by any means professional to simply ignore the problem as such an action just simply degrades the image of the maintainers and those who adopt and support it blindly. James On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: The

Re: [indiana-discuss] upgrade facility

2008-12-14 Thread James Cornell
You're completely right, it does not make sense. For a project I'm migrating in part to subversion, there is considerable overhead to bulk content files, think art and q3 bsp files as an example to where I'm going, and the issues just start at the latent overhead of the link, but it doesn't stop

Re: [indiana-discuss] request: md5 checksums for opensolaris 11.2008 and future downloads

2008-12-06 Thread James Cornell
Shawn Walker wrote: Now what I do think is missing is instructions on how to validate it using the checksums. openssl md5 file (I'm sure you know this) ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [indiana-discuss] request: md5 checksums for opensolaris 11.2008 and future downloads

2008-12-05 Thread James Cornell
SV wrote: I appreciate you want to make it easy, that unlike 'Solaris Express Community Edition', Opensolaris * dlc.sun.com * genunix.org both offer direct-to-the-iso download links, but how do I know I got a valid file at the end of the transaction? You should at least post the

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 on macbook pro (fdisk fails during installation)

2008-12-02 Thread James Cornell
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: Any suggestion or workaround? Regards, Basant. Make sure you have Solaris as a primary partition located at #3 or #4. Remove your Linux swap to make room and use a file-backend instead. You may need to reinstall GRUB after installing OpenSolaris from the

Re: [indiana-discuss] Bug 4887 - is a fix avalable?

2008-12-02 Thread James Cornell
andrew wrote: I notice from http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4887#c6 that this bug has been fixed in Nevada build 105. Is it possible to apply this fix to 2008.11 without recompiling any binaries? If so - what is the fix? Thanks Andrew. Wasn't this a setuid bit problem

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris 2008/11 rc2 on macbook pro (fdisk fails during installation)

2008-12-02 Thread James Cornell
Basant Kumar kukreja wrote: Thanks James, all 3 OSs now just boot fine. All partitions were primary partitions. I probably won't need linux so I will wipe it out. I hope if I create extended partitions now, I would be able to mount from opensolaris/MacOS. Regards, Basant. Yes, you

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11 final version being released today?

2008-11-30 Thread James Cornell
Torrey McMahon wrote: Amber Roadwait.we used that one already. UltraSock(TM) Puppet(SM) 2008.12(R) (c) 2008.11 Sun Microsystems, Inc.! James ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [indiana-discuss] dnsdomainname command?

2008-11-25 Thread James Cornell
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:51:43AM -0600, Paul Fisher wrote: This command exists on solaris, but not opensolaris, and pkg search Does it? Where? What pkg delivers it? I cannot find a dnsdomainname command in either Solaris Nevada nor OpenSolaris. dnsdomainname

Re: [indiana-discuss] dnsdomainname command?

2008-11-25 Thread James Cornell
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:18:20AM -0600, James Cornell wrote: Isn't that part of NIS or bind? Methinks you're referring to domainname(1M), not 'dnsdomainname'. And domainname(1M) is in both, Solaris and OpenSolaris. Nico I said bind, as I remembered that there's

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why No Dump- and SWAP-Device ?

2008-11-25 Thread James Cornell
Detlef Drewanz (sent by E61) wrote: James, thanks for this comments. Frankly said I use use solaris and opensolaris now for years on my laptop (all also with some issues) Now I finally have managed through the weekend to install Nevada and OpenSolaris into one solaris partition/slice and

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why No Dump- and SWAP-Device ?

2008-11-23 Thread James Cornell
Detlef Drewanz wrote: If I compare the OpenSolaris2008.11 prebuild installation with an actual Nevada Installation: Why is in OpenSolaris2008.11 no Dump- and Swap Device configured ? Is this just a limitation of the installer or what's the reason ? Detlef

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why No Dump- and SWAP-Device ?

2008-11-23 Thread James Cornell
Detlef Drewanz wrote: Thanks James, Hmm interestingly. I just installed OpenSolaris on a new systems and yes there I have dump and swap. I have to find out why in my vbox installation dump and swap has not been created. Maybe the image was with 6 GB too small ... Detlef Since Indiana needs

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 101b/RC2)

2008-11-22 Thread James Cornell
Since I already had b101a (rc1) i did pkg update then image-update and that worked. No genunix isos yet, and the torrents take 24 hours or more to work sometimes. James On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Lyndsay Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting the following error from the

[indiana-discuss] Package manager takes up 2gb memory and sucks 51% CPU

2008-11-21 Thread James Cornell
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 3461 root 1917M 1849M cpu1300 0:32:26 51% packagemanager/82 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101a_rc1b X86 Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems,

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Package manager takes up 2gb memory and sucks 51% CPU

2008-11-21 Thread James Cornell
Michal Pryc wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: James Cornell wrote: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 3461 root 1917M 1849M cpu1300 0:32:26 51% packagemanager/82 ... Anything else you want? A bug report at defect.opensolaris.org along

Re: [indiana-discuss] Finding the IP address of my DHCPserver?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
Gilles Gravier wrote: Hello! Anybody know where I can look in my logs to see what the address of the DHCP server that gave my machine its network information is? Thanks in advance, Gilles. -- *Gilles Gravier, CISSP *Government Industry Solutions Architect mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [indiana-discuss] Finding the IP address of my DHCPserver?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
Gilles Gravier wrote: James Cornell wrote: Anybody know where I can look in my logs to see what the address of the DHCP server that gave my machine its network information is? opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss You mean a reverse assignment log? (DHCP server lease

Re: [indiana-discuss] What is iiimd ?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The cool thing is that with iiim disabled (from gnome sessions as well as via .profile) gnome starts considerably faster for me. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/post!reply.jspa?messageID=308935 It's a shame that we have to include this sh*t in the OpenSolaris LiveCD,

Re: [indiana-discuss] What is iiimd ?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: We need input method one way or another for international users. Agreed that we need to include input method in the OpenSolaris LiveCD, as, until the philosophy changes, this is intended as a multi-lingual OS (kudos from me). However, do we really need

Re: [indiana-discuss] What is iiimd ?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I think the job No. 1 is for those involved to explain why we have to use IIIM? Why Sun is the only company on earth who is still sticking with IIIMf? Have the decision-makers considered other options, such as SCIM, which has become the default IM in Linux? Has

Re: [indiana-discuss] What is iiimd ?

2008-11-20 Thread James Cornell
the executables and libraries, and starting some necessary services that only need to be launched in the 1st login, like gconf. Regards, James Cornell wrote: W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The cool thing is that with iiim disabled (from gnome sessions as well as via .profile) gnome starts

Re: [indiana-discuss] package manager's performance

2008-11-11 Thread James Cornell
Shawn Walker wrote: The GUI performance issues have nothing to do with dependency resolution. The packagemanager GUI team is working to resolve performance issues that are found as quickly as possible. If you have specific feedback about the latest build that isn't recorded at

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-11 Thread James Cornell
Sébastien Stormacq wrote: Hello, I've noticed we are distributing binaries like os200811-global.usb I guess this is to be installed on USB memory stick to boot from there Any wiki, web site with instruction on how to install the beast ? Run file against the file? Maybe you dd or untar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Sound on Toshiba Tecra w/ 11/2008

2008-11-08 Thread James Cornell
, Christian Thalinger wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 07:27 -0600, James Cornell wrote: don't let such a thing change purchasing decisions. Webcams don't make a difference; don't expect them to work. It was really cool to see that the iSight of my Apple MacBook Pro worked out-of-the-box. I

Re: [indiana-discuss] [little-OT] USB support for OpenSolaris into VirtualBox

2008-11-04 Thread James Cornell
Luca Morettoni wrote: On 11/04/08 13:07, Calum Benson wrote: I really don't think anyone needs to vote. It's already a high priority issue that's actively being worked on, as acknowledged on the second post in that thread. And in any case, the underlying cause is a Solaris bug,

Re: [indiana-discuss] help to diagnosis non-stop disk activity and unresponsive system

2008-11-04 Thread James Cornell
Henry Jen wrote: Hi, I have been troubled by unresponsive system with non-stop disk activities, my guess is the system do paging like crazy. As many times, this comes along with some failed to fork or out of memory problem. This time, trying to open a pdf file, and started with following

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Mac Xserver

2008-11-04 Thread James Cornell
rEFI should work for you, though I don't have access to such hardware so I can't give you definitive certainty regarding it. Check their documentation first. James On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Mark Olliver wrote: Hi, May be i should clarify, this is the newer version i think the only

Re: [indiana-discuss] 2008.11 build 100a test ISO

2008-11-01 Thread James Cornell
andrew wrote: i've tried OSS before and it didn't work, but I'll give them another go. I await the final release of 2008.11 with interest! It looks like it will be a really nice looking release. The only major question mark for me at the moment is the minimum memory requirement. Cheers

Re: [indiana-discuss] Updated pkg.opensolaris.org repository URLs

2008-10-30 Thread James Cornell
Ché Kristo wrote: Hi Stephen, A few questions: * Wouldn't there be issues in the circumstance where a user was using 2008.11 and wanted to stay on that release but 2009.04 was released into that repository forcing them to upgrade. Will there be sub repository for each release for those

Re: [indiana-discuss] Anyone blogging about Fusion or xen with OpenSolaris/Indiana?

2008-10-25 Thread James Cornell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, If you'd like to blog on these topics, that's be great. Send me the URL to your blog, and I'll add it as a cross-reference in the Getting Started Guide for 2008.11. Barbara On 10/25/08 11:48, James Cornell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Docs

Re: [indiana-discuss] [i18n-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11 build_98 test results

2008-10-20 Thread James Cornell
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Oops, forgot to mention this. Most if not all of the contact persons in the copyright page (for porting the Chewing IME to Solaris) are no longer with Sun. For sake of showing at least some sincerity,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Could I use OpenSolaris to run ERP?

2008-10-18 Thread James Cornell
Upgrading twice a year should be a reasonable compromise with many benefits. Solaris 10 U6 isn't going to cover issues such as power management, newer gstreamer framework (Needed for some modern software), and device drivers, merely a subset of the work that could be reasonably

Re: [indiana-discuss] Can't Install OOO in os0811_99

2008-10-17 Thread James Cornell
I'm glad... works great on bare metal (You'd be in love if you had modest needs) :) James On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Gilles Gravier wrote: OK... So... I just did a CLEAN install of the OSol build 99 DVD on my VirtualBox... 16GB static disk, 1024MB RAM. Then I downloaded the OOo file :

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

2008-10-17 Thread James Cornell
98 - 99 (Indiana via image update) worked fine for me, I was on B90 for a while and couldn't ever get it updated to B91 (LU on SXCE), so there's apparently a few releases that are not going to be friendly to upgrade. James On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Karl Hakimian wrote: Upon further

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-16 Thread James Cornell
Giacomo Tufano wrote: Il giorno 16/ott/08, alle ore 04:34, W. Wayne Liauh ha scritto: 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

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-16 Thread James Cornell
At least someone agrees with me about it being an issue... The current spin is targeted at single point PC installations, no question about it, but it's incomplete unless you want to break laws, some people would gladly do this, but hopefully their employer is more forgiving than the

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] Feedback requested! Which SPARC platforms to

2008-10-14 Thread James Cornell
Just simple X11 is good enough for me; Fluxbox and *maybe* Enlightenment are the pinnacle of what is needed for local SPARC workstations IMHO. Just getting X.org in a state where it'll work with common FFB graphics (No 3D or anything fancy) would be enough for this first release. I agree

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-13 Thread James Cornell
Paul Harper wrote: Could there be a minimal install cd in time for OpenSolaris 2008.11 for people setting up servers, older PC's, installing on the eeepc, etc and otherwise have space requirements? I have seen a few requests on Help and I have suggested Milax Server. But Milax is not

Re: [indiana-discuss] Feedback requested! Which SPARC platforms to target

2008-10-13 Thread James Cornell
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Those working on the cheap may well be using the same box as a workstation and a local/workgroup server. So getting some of Martin's ports of BSD drivers up to integration level quality might be really helpful. Systems that only have PCI (not PCI-X or PCIe) but

Re: [indiana-discuss] Feedback requested! Which SPARC platforms to target first...

2008-10-09 Thread James Cornell
John Sonnenschein wrote: I would think that a good target would be machines that are cheap and plentiful on the used market That is, U10, U5 ( maybe ), B100/150 my 0.02CAD , Desktop support would be a must -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [indiana-discuss] Losing my hope...

2008-10-05 Thread James Cornell
Moinak Ghosh wrote: Hi Israel, It is possible that one of Masayuki Murayama's excellent ethernet drivers will work for you: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ However that needs building from source and is a trouble. I'd suggest you to try the BeleniX distro of OpenSolaris

Re: [indiana-discuss] zfs expand question

2008-10-03 Thread James Cornell
ZFS doesn't work this way. It's based on storage pools based on a ZFS slice and only through a clone can encompass the rest of the disk now that it's done and over with. James On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:25 PM, George Koutras wrote: Hi all, I am running 2008.11 snv 98 on a dual boot laptop with

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on MACbook Pro

2008-09-11 Thread James Cornell
Richard Elling wrote: James Cornell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: My experience is with SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) not Indiana on this hardware, and I find Indiana to be lacking in extensibility which this type of setup would most likely depend on. Could you

Re: [indiana-discuss] To install Oracle Software ....

2008-09-10 Thread James Cornell
You should clarify what you mean by this. Do you mean running it on a VM of OpenSolaris, a native install, and have you checked legal precautions with regards to switching to a different platform? From my experience with Oracle, like VMware, they tend to charge you per platform, as seems to be

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on MACbook Pro

2008-09-10 Thread James Cornell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: My experience is with SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) not Indiana on this hardware, and I find Indiana to be lacking in extensibility which this type of setup would most likely depend on. Could you provide more details on this lack of extensibility?

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on MACbook Pro

2008-09-09 Thread James Cornell
I've done it natively, but no it's not really nice to initially get on there as only part of the partition problems caused by EFI assumptions have been fixed. Making it work requires you to pre-partition the system before installing Leopard by using the Disk Utility program or by using the

Re: [indiana-discuss] The importance of a CD sized core

2008-09-06 Thread James Cornell
C. Bergström wrote: Luis de Bethencourt wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM, James Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Cater wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:30:07AM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Peter Tribble wrote

Re: [indiana-discuss] The importance of a CD sized core

2008-09-06 Thread James Cornell
Luis de Bethencourt wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM, James Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Cater wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:30:07AM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Peter Tribble wrote: ... Having a CD as a constraint is also

Re: [indiana-discuss] The importance of a CD sized core

2008-09-05 Thread James Cornell
Andy Cater wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:30:07AM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Peter Tribble wrote: ... Having a CD as a constraint is also going to act as an encouragement to avoid bloat and keep things tight. I think it will impose discipline. Good

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana on VirtualBox

2008-09-05 Thread James Cornell
Eric Forgeot wrote: with the latest indiana it boots properly, but it seems the network interface is not recognised. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [indiana-discuss] b96

2008-09-03 Thread James Cornell
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello pkg-discuss, What's the status on b96 release? Is testing/buidling/... done in public? If not can it be more transparent? B97 is out on mirrors (SXCE) linked from OpenSolaris download page as Single Image. Until both trees can merge

Re: [indiana-discuss] Default password hashing

2008-09-01 Thread James Cornell
Yeah been that way the whole time across the board. First thing I do after logging in is just that... the only program that needs crypt is smc, and smc is dead, and opensolaris is unsupported until they have something to replace SXDE, hopefully Indiana 2008.11 fits that bill. Suffice to say some

Re: [indiana-discuss] Choice of text Editor

2008-08-22 Thread James Cornell
I personally think nano is still a good editor, but I'll see how well joe works if this is the case. Elvis is a good vi clone, which doubles as a hex editor, and has been the default on Slackware Linux for half a decade or longer. There are a few features in vim that people desire. I'm not sure

Re: [indiana-discuss] boot never completes from install CD

2008-08-17 Thread James Cornell
Try disabling ACPI on boot. There's another thread with T60 owners who had to do this to get it to boot and it sounds like it's panicing. James On Aug 17, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Henry Nelson wrote: First time to try OpenSolaris, but I can't seem to get the install CD to boot up. From the

Re: [indiana-discuss] sysbench pkg for opensolaris 2008.05

2008-08-15 Thread James Cornell
Have you tried to `find / -name libmysqlclient_r.so.15`? A change may be needed so it explicitly links with that library. James On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 10:42 -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote: Tom Georgoulias wrote: I want to repeat some sysbench tests that I've run with Mysql 5 and Red Hat

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Sven Herzing wrote: Hi, I have a question about installing updates to the stable version of opensolaris 200805. When I use pkg image-update, I would get the packages of the latest release installed (update from snv_86 - snv_9X). But that's not what I want to do. On this site:

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Sven Herzing wrote: For me, it's the question, if I would need to buy support only to get some updates, so why not use directly Solaris 10. Yes, I know there are features in OpenSolaris which are not (yet) in Solaris 10, but at least I would have a stable version and I would get security

Re: [indiana-discuss] Battery status in snv_95

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Which laptop? James On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 17:21 -0700, Praveen Kumar wrote: I have upgraded to snv_95. I don't have to turn off the ACPI support anymore (to avoid the kernel panic). However I notice that my battery status applet is still not working. Does anyone run snv_95 on bare metal

Re: [indiana-discuss] Battery status in snv_95

2008-08-14 Thread James Cornell
Are you running the latest BIOS revision? James On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 18:07 -0700, Praveen Kumar wrote: James Cornell wrote: Which laptop? Lenovo Thinkpad T60 James On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 17:21 -0700, Praveen Kumar wrote: I have upgraded to snv_95. I don't have to turn off

Re: [indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

2008-08-10 Thread James Cornell
to redundancy you can't have the whole cake, and usually the whole cake just annoys users and makes them confused anyway. Cheers, James On Aug 10, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 Aug 2008, at 19:49, James Cornell wrote: It meshes better with GNOME, and it has exchange 2000/2003 connectors

Re: [indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

2008-08-09 Thread James Cornell
It meshes better with GNOME, and it has exchange 2000/2003 connectors with current versions, 2007 very soon. Theoretically it uses less resources since it shares GNOME components, and I find it to be more accessible from a business-minded workflow, as the contacts, calendar and memos are better

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Bookmarks Toolbar

2008-08-08 Thread James Cornell
That's fine Wayne. I believe you would want to poke around /usr/share for a firefox bookmarks.html file which copies itself when the browser is launched. I just deducted that there's a file of the like somewhere there because the .firefox directory in a user's home directory stores the bookmarks

Re: [indiana-discuss] grub don't boot OpenSolaris 2008.05 after one reboot

2008-08-05 Thread James Cornell
sanjay nadkarni (Laptop) wrote: Luca Morettoni wrote: Hi, I have installed and used OpenSolaris on a single installation for a long time. Now on my laptop I buy a new big HD (320G) to be shared with WinXP and OpenSolaris. First I have installed WinXP on a 60G partition, then I installed

Re: [indiana-discuss] [docs-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back to School Kit

2008-08-01 Thread James Cornell
Glynn Foster wrote: On 2/08/2008, at 11:09 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: In the finding CIFS shares section, wouldn't it be better to call it the Nautilus file browser instead of the Sun Java(TM) Desktop System file browser? I thought most JDS branding was gone in 2008.05.

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg, multiple symlinks and Xterm

2008-07-29 Thread James Cornell
Julian Wiesener wrote: Hello Stephen, On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:16 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: I didn't know that beadm required GNOME. When does GNOME get called in beadm? i too don't think that beadm will call any gnome components, but beadm is part of the package

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg search tip for fellow newbies

2008-07-21 Thread James Cornell
Reminds me of my friend who uses ratpoison, basically GNU screen for X11. Another friend of mine used to have blackbox with bbkeys to move things around on his Toshiba Libretto. (166MHz one) James On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Gnome Fans, On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Calum

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

2008-07-14 Thread James Cornell
Richard Elling wrote: James Cornell wrote: Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, using 99% of the rest of the space

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

2008-07-14 Thread James Cornell
Kevin Monceaux wrote: James, and other Indiana Fans, On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, James Cornell wrote: Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

2008-07-14 Thread James Cornell
Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, James Cornell wrote: Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, using 99

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

2008-07-13 Thread James Cornell
Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, using 99% of the rest of the space on the pool. Maybe someone here knows what I'm,

Re: [indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

2008-07-09 Thread James Cornell
Abraham Tehrani wrote: Why are we limiting ourselves to a CD then if we're having so many issues with bits not being available out-of-the-box? Is having a DVD ISO that large of an issue? Has that limited the usage of SXCE/DE? We are living in the BITtorrent age where a 1 - 2 GIG download is

Re: [indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

2008-07-08 Thread James Cornell
Richard Elling wrote: Glynn Foster wrote: On 8/07/2008, at 11:53 AM, MC wrote: OpenSolaris 2008.5 is downright broken as a development platform If someone outside this list is saying that (they are) then people here should be listening. I suggest a package

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