Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-15 Thread Rabindranath Seunarinesingh
Thanks for the reply Thomas. I don't have a Sun card, so I guess the graphical install is out. Now, if I install via console, how can I give the user a GUI desktop? Will that be possible at all? BTW, I'm in the same noisy room with all the servers (: thanks robin Thomas Maier-Komor

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-15 Thread Rabindranath Seunarinesingh
Thanks Alan, that piece of info seems to be the missing link in all of this. I have no problem installing via CLI/console, but does that mean I wouldn't be able to give the user a GUI desktop even if he connects to the server via the network? thanks robin Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi all, Want to upgrade one of my computer to something like this mobo: 750W 80+ Corsair CMPSU-750TX Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel X58 2xGbLan 7.1 audio fw cf/sli RAID Intel Core i7 930 2.80 GHZ 8 MB LGA 1366 Boxed 12 Gt Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 MHZ CL9 (6x2 Gt kit) 2 x 1 TB WD Caviar Green Power

Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-15 Thread E. Mike Durbin
On 06/14/2010 02:26 PM, Rabindranath Seunarinesingh wrote: Thanks for the reply Thomas. I don't have a Sun card, so I guess the graphical install is out. Now, if I install via console, how can I give the user a GUI desktop? Will that be possible at all? BTW, I'm in the same noisy room with all

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi all, Want to upgrade one of my computer to something like this mobo: 750W 80+ Corsair CMPSU-750TX Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel X58 2xGbLan 7.1 audio fw cf/sli RAID Intel Core i7 930 2.80 GHZ 8 MB LGA 1366 Boxed 12 Gt Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 MHZ CL9 (6x2 Gt kit) 2 x 1 TB WD Caviar

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

2010-06-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of NexentaStor team, I'm happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta Partners and users. Changes over 3.0.2 include * Many fixes to ON/ZFS backported to b134. * Multiple bug fixes in the

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
So, basically with out clear communication from Sun, Sun has abandoned a key functional component? Yes, better ACL integration would be nice but to use CIFS I have to setup a WIndows domain controller? Several years back Sun pushed PC Netlink as superior to samba and then abandoned PC

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread Casper . Dik
So, basically with out clear communication from Sun, Sun has abandoned a key functional component? Yes, better ACL integration would be nice but to use CIFS I have to setup a WIndows domain controller? I use CIFS at home and I don't have a AD controller. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:55 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: So, basically with out clear communication from Sun, Sun has abandoned a key functional component? Yes, better ACL integration would be nice but to use CIFS I have to setup a WIndows domain controller? I use CIFS at home and I

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Parvu
thx. I was asking if anyone else is running this mobo with OSOL. stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/10 03:29 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: thx. I was asking if anyone else is running this mobo with OSOL. Does close count? I run my daily operations on a eVGA X58 SLI with i7 980X (previously i7 920) using AHCI for disk access. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 06/15/10 03:29 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: thx. I was asking if anyone else is running this mobo with OSOL. Does close count? I run my daily operations on a eVGA X58 SLI with i7 980X (previously i7 920) using AHCI for disk access. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Stefan Parvu
:) cheers. Looks good. I need to see how much would cost me this new machine + nvidia . Thx, stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-15 Thread BJ Quinn
Happy 1st birthday to the current release as well! (ducks to avoid flaming arrows) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Hi all, Want to upgrade one of my computer to something like this mobo: 750W 80+ Corsair CMPSU-750TX Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel X58 2xGbLan 7.1 audio fw I've tested with P6T (no Deluxe part, single GB LAN) cf/sli RAID Forget the Intel RAID. You don't need it with OpenSolaris. Intel

[osol-discuss] tarball containing a package depot of onnv_142 + pkg + caiman bits

2010-06-15 Thread Edward Martinez
Has anybody tried this? looks interesting, I may give it a shot at it after i calm myself down after reading the instructions. Mon Jun 14 2010 New Richard Lowe, a well known, long-time contributor to OpenSolaris has an interesting and useful contribution. In his own words: Given that

Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun

2010-06-15 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
If Oracle /Sun truly desire Open Solaris or Solaris to be a viable alternative to Windows and expand their userbase and financial bottom line I don't see how Oracle / Sun is really going to expand its bottom line by spending a huge amount of money supporting an end-user operating system that

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I believe this project started as the Open Solaris Project (with a space in between), from which it was evolved the SXCR DVD iso image, which those of us outside of Sun must download in a multiplicity of compressed iso segments (one segment at a time at a whopping 100 KB per second max), and

[osol-discuss] Infiniband card

2010-06-15 Thread Prudhvi Krishna Surapaneni
Hi, I have a same MHEA28-XTC (mem-free) card. which prtconf -vp reports as pci15b3.6282. I manually tried attaching tavor and arbel drivers to pci15b3.6282. But, i could not get the drive listed in the ifconfig. My machine runs on b134 on amd64. If mem-free cards are not supported on

Re: [osol-discuss] Infiniband card

2010-06-15 Thread Edward Martinez
f mem-free cards are not supported on opensolaris I'm not really sure but It appears the arbel driver will work on this card and it can be installed from IPS quote: If you are trying to use third party cards, the thing that might confuse you is that two different drivers are used with

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
Unlike home, if you have network with more than 5 Windows PC's you will probably want a domain controller. Currently my samba servers function as both domain controllers and file servers. But since there could be some benefits for switching to a Active Directory domain controller (e.g.

Re: [osol-discuss] X58 and i7?

2010-06-15 Thread John Martin
On 06/15/10 05:46 PM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: You will not be able to install if the DVD is SATA in AHCI mode. Is this specific to the P6T or do you believe it is necessary for all X58/ICH10 motherboards? On my eVGA X58 SLI, the hard drive and DVD are connected to the ICH10 SATA ports and set