Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151a7 live DVD Grub problems with Dell Precision T3600

2012-12-06 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Not sure if this is related to your issue, and I haven't tried oi151a7 on a Live DVD. But I did a few installations via Live DVDs of earlier versions, and managed to fail booting once. It is resolved when I burn the same content on a 2nd DVD and try again. HTH, Alex. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

2012-08-06 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
I did try that when building my current home server with just one USB stick. My experience was that the resulting OS is quite a bit slower, may be due to a bad choice of stick on my part. Anyway, I ended up with 1x500GB rpool disk and 5x2TB RAID-Z1 pool using an Asus mATX motherboard and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Re : sata hot plug problem (ahci?) + openindiana crash

2012-05-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Hi there, I have a server with a 3-way mirror pool which I can hot-swap the 3rd HDD as an off-site backup. I have to issue additional commands before and after physically swapping the HDDs, which I can't recall exactly right now but Google points to the following: http://www.xenorg.com/?p=3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a3 live installation failed

2012-04-27 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Just had another installation on a different system and got the same OpenIndiana did not complete normally screen. This time I use the Live USB image for installation. Alex. OM Apr 27 21:34:09 System reports enough physical memory for installation, swap is optional TDDM_E Apr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a3 live installation failed

2012-04-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Jon Tibble me...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Alex, On 13/04/2012 13:57, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: I see that the latest prestable comes with ISO, so I decided to give it a spin. First time I did the install, it got stuck at 99% (Completing transfer process

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a3 live installation failed

2012-04-13 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
I see that the latest prestable comes with ISO, so I decided to give it a spin. First time I did the install, it got stuck at 99% (Completing transfer process) for an hour. I tried powering the PC off and then start without Live DVD to see if the installation went okay, and unfortunately it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a3 live installation failed

2012-04-13 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
! Thanks, Alex. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com wrote: I see that the latest prestable comes with ISO, so I decided to give it a spin. First time I did the install, it got stuck at 99% (Completing transfer process) for an hour. I tried powering the PC

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Just checked, it has been updated to: In late 2011 the Nexenta OS brand was terminated and replaced with Illumian, which is derived from community development for illumos and OpenIndiana but distinguished by continued use of Debian packaging. You might need to reload the page to see the updated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: GNOME crashes but not KDE 4.6

2011-07-24 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Guido Berhoerster g...@openindiana.org wrote: * Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com [2011-07-20 12:37]: So after updating the nvidia driver as suggested and still get frozen desktop every few days (SSH to restart gdm will rectify the issue without the need

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: GNOME crashes but not KDE 4.6

2011-07-20 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
So after updating the nvidia driver as suggested and still get frozen desktop every few days (SSH to restart gdm will rectify the issue without the need to reset the PC), I have decided to take the other suggestion and give KDE a go. I followed the instructions on this page:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
I have tried - except the keyboard remains unresponsive, so I ended up restarting the server instead. Alex. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:52 AM, jaimef o...@linbsd.org wrote: Hello have you tried to SSH in and kill and restart x? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: The only quirks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
After sipping through the instructures for the virtual console, I think I'll stay away from it for now, as I can use SSH to do pretty much the same investigations. Alex. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Jake jak3...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
With the new Nvidia driver, except for the first 2 boots after installation, it seems to be very stable afterwards. Alex. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: not that it matters too much, but on my Intel graphics box, when I cntrl-alt-f1 I get a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-27 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
1 nvidia (nvidia %I% Jun 8 2011 17:21:57) Does that look right? Alex. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jake jak3...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:34 PM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Tested: OI-151 live CD http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/151/oi-dev-151-x86-20110608-1.iso System: Intel Core i3-2100 ASUS P8H61 PLUS 8GB DDR3 Nvidia G210 3x 2TB + 1x 2TB spare The aim is to replace the existing office network equipments which consists of 3 boxes of dust, running Linux and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:53 PM, sy...@lavabit.com wrote: Tested: OI-151 live CD http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/151/oi-dev-151-x86-20110608-1.iso System: Intel Core i3-2100 ASUS P8H61 PLUS 8GB DDR3 Nvidia G210 3x 2TB + 1x 2TB spare The aim is to replace the existing office network

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:11 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: The only quirks I've read into so far is the device driver for Intel AMT (which I don't use anyway), and the occasion freeze of the Gnome

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Mark Humphreys saskal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com wrote: ... Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't seem to help other than making the whole screen go blank. ... This ain't Linux.  So, that won't do anything

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jake jak3...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Alex Lam S.L. alexla...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:11 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: The only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Brian Hechinger wo...@4amlunch.net wrote: On 6/22/2011 3:30 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: Is there a way to literally kill the GUI? I run into this accidentally today: # svcadm disable gdm Which throws me out into the console. The only down-side being