Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal for SCSI SAM File system

2007-07-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I would like propose a new project SCSI SAM Pseudo File system in OpenSolaris. This file system will be somewhat similar to Linux’s /proc/scsi file system, with several extensions. While I think there are times where a pseudo file system is a good answer to a problem, and I don't know whether

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread a b
http://docs.sun.com/ Voluminous - yes Detailed - yes Usability - I have mixed feelings. Often it has been notes put up on the blogs, mailing list archives or queries on newsgroups that seem to give me the right answers. (I can count myself among those

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-19 Thread a b
One of the things we as a community have often communicated is that we abhore the Linux fragmentation and that we want a unified *platform*, in stark contrast with the Linux mentality. Really? I don't abhore the Linux fragmentation, and I don't recall a consensus-community message

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-19 Thread UNIX admin
Really? I don't abhore the Linux fragmentation, and I don't recall a consensus-community message where we communicated that at all. I already covered the blanket statement part, but while on the subject, this just in: Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess:

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread UNIX admin
I find the professional documentation for Solaris fairly typical of professional documentation these days, and not terribly useful. It is, as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it *doesn't* do is give me any traction in really understanding how the system works; The question

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread S h i v
On 7/19/07, a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voluminous - yes Detailed - yes Usability - I have mixed feelings. Often it has been notes put up on the blogs, mailing list archives or queries on newsgroups that seem to give me the right answers. (I can count myself among those who has

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread S h i v
On 7/19/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question to you is, how is the documentation supposed to answer a question as undefined as yours? First you need to communicate what it is that you'd like to know, in more precise terms, then I can point you to the corresponding document.

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 01:38 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: I find the professional documentation for Solaris fairly typical of professional documentation these days, and not terribly useful. It is, as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it *doesn't* do is give me any traction in

[osol-discuss] Discovering USB Stick During DVD based Installation...Examples?

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Kuhnkey
This is a modified JumpStart environment question for a standalone SPARC system using a bootable DVD and a USB Thumb-Drive. In its simplest form the JumpStart DVD installs a baseline configuration...but it cannot be modified. Is it possible to override the default DVD information with

[osol-discuss] milestone versus runlevels?

2007-07-19 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I couldn't able to understand the difference between milestones and runlevels. As far as I understand they are somehow related What I understand is for example svc:/milestone/multi-user:default is runlevel 2. And if I want to see what is run in runlevel2 I can see that with: bash-3.00#

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-19 Thread Stephen Lau
UNIX admin wrote: Really? I don't abhore the Linux fragmentation, and I don't recall a consensus-community message where we communicated that at all. I already covered the blanket statement part, but while on the subject, this just in: Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess:

[osol-discuss] Switch SMF repositories mid-stream?

2007-07-19 Thread Jim Connors
Toying around with using a minimal RAM-resident version of OpenSolaris (currently 80MB) as an appliance platform. The idea here would be that the OS would be real small, would boot real fast (from flash), would have no disk footprint, and most importantly -- be stateless. The stateless part

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Aaron Epps
Is the only way to get updates for OpenSolaris to buy a annual contract from Sun? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Epps wrote: Is the only way to get updates for OpenSolaris to buy a annual contract from Sun? No - there is no contract from Sun you can buy that will give you anything more than you can get from the free downloads on OpenSolaris.org. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Aaron Epps
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Once I've installed Solaris, surely there are pathces/etc that are released, currently it looks as if I need to register my installation of Solaris in order to get access to these patches and that appears to require some kind of support contract with Sun. Is there any

Re: [osol-discuss] Switch SMF repositories mid-stream?

2007-07-19 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Jim Connors wrote: Toying around with using a minimal RAM-resident version of OpenSolaris (currently 80MB) as an appliance platform. The idea here would be that the OS would be real small, would boot real fast (from flash), would have no disk footprint, and most importantly -- be

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Epps wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear. Once I've installed Solaris, surely there are pathces/etc that are released, currently it looks as if I need to register my installation of Solaris in order to get access to these patches and that appears to require some kind of support contract

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Darren Dunham
Solaris and OpenSolaris are not the same thing. As this is an OpenSolaris forum, it's not the best place to discuss topics that are specific to Solaris (like support contracts and patch availability). -- Darren This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread James Carlson
Aaron Epps writes: Perhaps I wasn't clear. Once I've installed Solaris, surely there are pathces/etc that are released, currently it looks as if I need to register my installation of Solaris in order to get access to these patches and that appears to require some kind of support contract

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Aaron Epps
I'm just attempting to familiarize myself with how OpenSolaris differs from Fedora. For example, eventhought Fedora is a development project, they still release and make patches freely available without having to buy a support contract; of course if you buy RHEL then you do need to purchase a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread James Carlson
Epps, Aaron writes: I'm talking about Solaris Express... OK. So, if there are never going to be any patches issued for Solaris Express, then why have the Update-Manager applet loaded on the default gnome panel? For that matter, why not just remove or hide it all together if it's not going

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Epps wrote: I'm just attempting to familiarize myself with how OpenSolaris differs from Fedora. For example, eventhought Fedora is a development project, they still release and make patches freely available without having to buy a support contract; of course if you buy RHEL then you

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Aaron Epps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm just attempting to familiarize myself with how OpenSolaris differs from Fedora. For example, eventhought Fedora is a development project, they still release and make patches freely available without having to buy a support contract; of course if you

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
James Carlson wrote: Epps, Aaron writes: I'm talking about Solaris Express... OK. So, if there are never going to be any patches issued for Solaris Express, then why have the Update-Manager applet loaded on the default gnome panel? For that matter, why not just remove or hide it all

[osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hey, Anyone any ideas if Solaris can see this device: Maxtor 1TB OneTouch III Turbo Edition USB or firewire ? Connecting this to my Solaris Express build 64a, USB: Jul 19 21:16:27 earth usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Maxtor OneTouch III 2CAD0L5P Jul 19 21:16:27 earth genunix: [ID

Re: [osol-discuss] Switch SMF repositories mid-stream?

2007-07-19 Thread Jim Connors
Apologies. Moving over to smf-discuss ... -- Jim C Jim Connors wrote: Toying around with using a minimal RAM-resident version of OpenSolaris (currently 80MB) as an appliance platform. The idea here would be that the OS would be real small, would boot real fast (from flash), would have

Re: [osol-discuss] Portable UPnP SDK : build success

2007-07-19 Thread homerun
Hi Write here when you success , i'm more than happy to do some testing :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Parvu
couple of more info: - I was able to fdisk it in Redhat AS. In Solaris it was not possible. - The device ships as MacOSX device so I needed to repartion it - Even if I have defined in Redhat AS 2 partitions Im not able to use fdisk nor format, rmformat in S11. Not sure whats going on.

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Jul 19 21:16:27 earth usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Maxtor OneTouch III 2CAD0L5P Jul 19 21:16:27 earth genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci1043,[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 19 21:16:27 earth genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi Artem, Thanks for comments. - USB: I will try to add reduced-cmd-support=true, reboot my system and see whats going on. - FireWire: I was not able at all to access the disk, the storage is not detected. Stefan This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
- FireWire: I was not able at all to access the disk, the storage is not detected. That's peculiar. Nothing at all in /var/adm/messages? -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
- USB: I will try to add reduced-cmd-support=true, reboot my system and see whats going on. Don't forget the semicolon at the end, or it won't take effect. -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Parvu
For FireWire: nope. Nothing reported from scsa1394 driver. However after your suggestion Im able to see now: c4t0d0p0. [EMAIL PROTECTED]rmformat -l Looking for devices... 1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 Physical Node: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci1043,[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL

[osol-discuss] Blog on packaging

2007-07-19 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Stephen Hahn blogged awesomely about his thoughts on packaging - if you're interested in the discussion, you should probably subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and comment on things. [this mail is just a heads up, so that people don't feel like they're missing something - it's purposely not

Re: [osol-discuss] Blog on packaging

2007-07-19 Thread MC
Hey, Stephen Hahn blogged awesomely about his thoughts on packaging - if you're interested in the discussion, you should probably subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and comment on things. [this mail is just a heads up, so that people don't feel like they're missing something - it's

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-19 Thread Colin Zou
The USB FAQ storage section might help you. http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html#Storage The scsa2usb.conf property is mentioned in question 20. - Colin Stefan Parvu wrote: For FireWire: nope. Nothing reported from scsa1394 driver. However after your suggestion Im able to see

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 08:50 -0700, Aaron Epps wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear. Once I've installed Solaris, surely there are pathces/etc that are released, currently it looks as if I need to register my installation of Solaris in order to get access to these patches and that appears to

Re: [osol-discuss] What's causing this ifconfig -a plumb error

2007-07-19 Thread Andre Lue
Bump ??? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org