Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much larger than installing SXCE, mostly trying to find which packages you've missed this time. Casper This kind of extra effort is NOTHING compared to what those of us who are moving from Linux to Solaris/OpenSolaris have to go through.

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA nfo Basic Networking how to opensolaris

2010-01-03 Thread Martin Schmidt
Hi System 5 , I have installed opensolaris 2009.06 again without any changes by me and modinfo yields in , command: modinfo for this command: modinfo | grep nge 179 f83fd000 11da0 230 1 nge (nVidia 1Gb Ethernet) modinfo | grep ngo you mean modinfo |

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2010-01-03 Thread Julian Leyh
how about lofs? this is used, for example, to mount directories from global zone to a local zone... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 and B130

2010-01-03 Thread Bruce Porter
My Tosh M10 has been running 111b happily since September, for various reasons (main because I was using it to work) I did not upgrade. Over the break I tried an upgrade to b130, all I got was a *very* slow and painful boot time, some errors flashed passed about issues with xfs and then it

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-03 Thread andrew
On 01/ 1/10 10:36 AM, andrew wrote: Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability to install from local files though. ;-) You can do that now as long as you're willing to run a depot server (which is a very light-weight easy to start/run process). However, if you're wanting to

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2010-01-03 Thread Alexander
how about lofs? this is used, for example, to mount directories from global zone to a local zone... It's inapplicable. We need rw fs, and we want changes to go into separate place (directory) so that initial directory is unchanged. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] UnionFS for Solaris

2010-01-03 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
this has to be in solaris 10 or opensolaris? i dont know how advanced ai is in opensolaris, but i think it can be easily solved in solaris 10 want clustering? use sun cluster software want rapid server deployment, use jumpstart want each server with it's own data? use an automounter and a central

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2010-01-03 Thread Masayuki Murayama
mrym, If your still following this thread Sorry for late response. I've mac_ver : 671088640, it is a onbaord nic. I have used version 14, but it does not show in modinfo (at the bottom of the file). 155 f8393000 a9d8 66 1 rge (Realtek 1Gb Ethernet) This line seems good,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use fo

2010-01-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: Before Linux was as big as it is now, Solaris was where a lot of apps were first developed. Typically, porting _from_ Solaris to some other Unix was easier than porting from say AIX, unless the developers were extra careful. Porting from

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread ken mays
--- On Sun, 1/3/10, W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.us wrote: From: W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.us Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:21 AM The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much larger than

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, this is the year to cut 'the baby string' from SXCE and see if the OSOL Live CD can stand the test of time. SXCE contans a lot of legacy parts and I think a few years ago there was talk of the distro constructor creating a larger OSOL Live DVD

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Volker A. Brandt
This is probably like the time when people had to cross the Red Sea. Either you wait and stay with the legacy Solaris releases, drown in the misery of awaiting your migration planning, or you start MIGRATING to the other side. Well, it depends on what you define as the other side. Sure I can

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use fo

2010-01-03 Thread François Revol
Hi, Porting from Solaris is still much easier than porting from Linux. This is one reason why I still use Solaris as my main development platform. In the early days of the OSS movement (in the late 1970s and early 1980s), people did care a lot on portability. Portability for OSS was

Re: [osol-discuss] Smartmontools + SATA disks

2010-01-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi there I'm running smartmontools-5.38 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111b) without any problems. You can download the source from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ There are no tricks or work arounds required to compile smartmontools and get SMART data from SATA disks other than the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 12/31/2009 10:49 AM, Ron Halstead wrote: Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? Last I heard SXCE 130 was planned for release after the Sun US employees responsible for the release get back into the office next week. (Sun's US offices are closed for a