Re: [osol-discuss] cant boot when I move a disk to another machine

2009-07-21 Thread John Brewer
you should submit a bugid/RFE http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] evga GTX 295 CO-OP not recognized as an nVIDIA card

2009-07-21 Thread John Brewer
You should submit a RFE at http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS lack of standard backup solution / cpio limitations

2009-04-30 Thread John Brewer
Are there any issues in using zfs-auto-snapshot ? The best solution is to use star. Star supports real reliable multi-volume archives and star supports incremental backups. Under snv_b112 there is only this for star : bash-3.2# find / -name star -print

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris + fold...@home (FAH)

2009-04-26 Thread John Brewer
You request them to port over and create a Solaris/OpenSolaris client. Also you could create a Linux zone , see man pages on zoneadm and zonecfg then install it in the Linux zone. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Kingston USB does not show/automount

2009-04-18 Thread John Brewer
There is no detail in that bugid 6809241, can you submit a bugid, and refernce the bug id as so this can have a better chance of getting addressed also make a note to get a hold of your for more info as well. and include the fstyp command from above. # Rem, For usb try include this for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 5.10?

2009-04-14 Thread John Brewer
Have you submitted any RFE http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread John Brewer
What is the output of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci You can try adding the vendor id and device id to: /etc/driver_aliases sys-unconfig -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Issues installing OpenSolaris build 111

2009-04-08 Thread John Brewer
Make sure the BIOS is updated, you can try enabling/disabling intel vt in BIOS or disabling usb legacy support ( may cause keyboard to not work in grub) Try booting with a unix option of -B disable-mybaddriver=true under grub e to edit the line after unix and can separate the options with a

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread John Brewer
Competition is good for the marketplace and brings innovation, I believe Ben Franklin coined the orig quote. The other hidden issue that no one talks about in these deals is how much they would save in royalties in buying a target company. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] output from prtvtoc

2009-03-23 Thread John Brewer
ZFS Root Mirror This is a simple Tutorial how you can create a bootable ZFS Root Mirror with Opensolaris. I had some help from both Opensolaris-Forums (com/org) and this Blog from Malachi. And here we go with the Tutorial: Making a bootable ZFS Root Mirror 1. Install Opensolaris to Disk A

Re: [osol-discuss] DVD Not booting

2009-03-02 Thread John Brewer
Try the war device of /dev/rdsk/ Else submit a bug report http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa you can try a truss -eaf and see of there is any use full info to submit in the bugreport. and provide a iostat -En output. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-20 Thread John Brewer
cat you also provide output of: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 3450 no driver

2008-10-19 Thread John Brewer
Can you attach the following outputs: uname -a /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v prtdiag -v /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWlucfg not found on Solaris 10 11/06 DVD image

2008-10-16 Thread John Brewer
Signup your sunsolve.sun.com account for registration of Solaris see http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-7228/6j6q7ueor?a=view And then ether use updatemanager or smpatch analyze ; smpatch download and apply alll the latest patches with smpatch update commands. Then mount your iso or dvd i.e:

[osol-discuss] Are these forums moderated in OpenSolaris.org - they are useless right now.

2008-10-13 Thread John Brewer
Are these forums moderated, can they be cleaned up or filtered? does not make the site look good with the content posted. opensound: discuss valex: discuss vconsole: discuss star: discuss tamarack: discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] S10 (05/08) vs SNV_98 stubdom install at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 (64-bi

2008-10-06 Thread John Brewer
Try running the manufacture disk utility to run a low level format verify all the cylinders are good, repartition the disk with Solaris fdisk dvd in shell command like under single user mode or when you run the Solaris installer on the dvd and select initial install with custom options and

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-30 Thread John Brewer
I believe suspend mode is not totally worked out yet in the kernel, I am using snv_b98 and I get a dmesg error to the effect saying power management is not enabled so Vista probably ( I have AMD 9950 on a MB GA-MA78GM-S2H 1.0 and 1.1 w. 8g mem) it can not pass back to the Solaris kernel the

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-30 Thread John Brewer
I have zfs setup on slice 5 for Xen and my Virtualbox Vista images and it was quite snappy as well, like you said zfs does use memory, so anything over 2 gig is worth getting ( I have 8g). Also if you had a extra Sata drives , this would offer better IO performance, even if you use zfs zpool

Re: [osol-discuss] weird printer behavior - multiple add printer queue instances

2008-09-26 Thread John Brewer
This is fixed in build 99 or 100. The desktop integration for the print management tools move around some and we ended up with two autostart files for the ospm for a build or two. You can remove /usr/share/gnome/autostart/ospm-applet.desktop to fix this. Will you be able to delete a printer

[osol-discuss] Network interface not working when installing

2008-09-26 Thread John Brewer
ping 164.73.82.36 164.73.82.36 is alive ping merlin.cmat.edu.yu ping: unknown host merlin.cmat.edu.uy To make this work properly I had to add the following line to /etc/system: set xnf:xnf_cksum_offload = 0 Wel,, I think that's all (by now, :) ). From URL

[osol-discuss] Netowrk interface not working during install

2008-09-26 Thread John Brewer
ping 164.73.82.36 164.73.82.36 is alive ping merlin.cmat.edu.yu ping: unknown host merlin.cmat.edu.uy To make this work properly I had to add the following line to /etc/system: set xnf:xnf_cksum_offload = 0 Wel,, I think that's all (by now, :) ). From URL

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation OpenSolaris and Windows vista

2008-09-24 Thread John Brewer
when you reburn your iso image, use a slower write speed. Older dvd players can have issues reading the faster recorded media since they were not rated for. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS - replacement beadm for lucreate luupgrade?

2008-08-20 Thread John Brewer
LU effectively disappears in the OpenSolaris distribution (replaced by 'beadm' and IPS snap upgrades), so that's mostly a no. When will beadm show up on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_bxx and does this impact thel support of lucreate and luupgrade commands? Also will OpenSolaris 2008.05 LiveCD

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_93 much slower than previous

2008-07-20 Thread John Brewer
is there a bug id on this issue? recently added DRI support makes the ATI Radeon x700 in the Ferrari 4000 laptops much slower than before This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia 780a drivers

2008-06-10 Thread John Brewer
Please include model of your mother board and the following commands in the RFE http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa uname -a ; prtdiag -v ; prtconf -Dpv ; /usr/X11/bin/scanpci ; var/adm/messages This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-05-10 Thread John Brewer
Submit a request to fix the bug back to the Motherboard manufacture, in my case I had asked for AMD virtualization support in the BIOS and they came out with a fix for the gigabyte MB I was using at the time, I was very pleased. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris luupgrade failing

2008-04-29 Thread John Brewer
Try running from your dvd or iso mounted image first. /export/install/dvd/Solaris_11/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fixing USB error open of /dev/rdsk/cXtXdXpX; Device busy

2008-04-29 Thread John Brewer
Run this: abd save the output: #!/bin/sh -x uname -a cat /etc/release /usr/X11/bin/scanpci prtconf -pv prtdiag -v eeprom # Rem, For usb try: echo REM Unplug all USB devices, else you get busy error, clear log:. sleep 120 echo ::usba_clear_debug_buf |mdb -wk echo Plug in your usb device echo

Re: [osol-discuss] [sysadmin-discuss] Configuring two nsswitch backends like LDAP and NI

2008-03-19 Thread John Brewer
If memory services correct! You had to create a new passwd2 and a new group2 entry in the /var/yp/Makefile update the /var/yp/nicknames you had to ypxfr to your slaves NIS servers update the last entry or add to it in bottom of /etc/passwd and /etc/group + pointers passwd2 entry with a name

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless USB Keyboard/mouse

2008-03-19 Thread John Brewer
Also you can try this for more info on each usb device, run and submit the detail RFE http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa or post it output. #!/bin/sh -x script /report.txt uname -a cat /etc/release /usr/X11/bin/scanpci prtconf -pv prtdiag -v eeprom # Rem, For usb try: echo REM Unplug all

Re: [osol-discuss] MultiBoot Anyone Any time Sometime?

2008-02-23 Thread John Brewer
You should submit a RFE, I believe the installer only assumes one Solaris2 fdisk partition Other wise use lucreate/luupgrade to manage the slices first bootup disk Slice 0 is root BE, Slice 1 is defined as swap (default install uses s1 as swap) Slice 3 can be your second ABE, or your second

Re: [osol-discuss] Wired message at Solaris startup

2008-02-13 Thread John Brewer
How much mem in the laptop? run a swap -l This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 80 Coming Next week

2008-01-26 Thread John Brewer
Why did snv_b79 get skipped? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with GeForce 6200 and Nvidia driver

2008-01-26 Thread John Brewer
I had a issue with snv_b77 fresh install from dvd and opened a bugid of, CR 6648269 P3 nvidia/kernel nvidia fails on GeForce 6200 TurboCache vend used during installation. However, the bug shows the EDID fails being read by the NVIDIA driver: (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device

Re: [osol-discuss] Sol 10 u3 - u4 Live upgrade - bug 6477759

2008-01-21 Thread John Brewer
We ran into this bug today using the Live upgrade from Sol 10u3 - Sol 10u4. We are working in a sandbox environment and after doing the whole process of getting the BE prepared, we did not boot the zones again (to simulate the real production environment). Live upgrade is running but

Re: [osol-discuss] ¨Could not look up internet address for unknown¨

2008-01-18 Thread John Brewer
Does the vender id and device id that /usr/X11/bin/scancpi and prtconf -pv output show for the e1000g show in your /etc/driver_aliases this is managed by the add_drv command: add_drv -i pcivendor-id,device-id e100g ( check the man page for the syntax with single quotes around the double

Re: [osol-discuss] ¨Could not look up internet address for unknown¨

2008-01-17 Thread John Brewer
After further investigations, I think the problem is definitely with the Lenovo R61i notebook (I believe i refers to the Intel chipset). I am not going into the details, but I have tried a couple of Linux distros, both experienced some kind of problems. For some reason, this machine needs

Re: [osol-discuss] ¨Could not look up internet address for unknown¨

2008-01-17 Thread John Brewer
This has been a ongoing issue: The dhcp client did work on and off there were several code changes and putbacks, it had worked with Time Warners Cable modem, and DSL modem in between these versions of snv_b55 to snv_b61 and one of the 10u4 beta's with a few other caviate's

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS problem after disk faliure

2008-01-06 Thread John Brewer
You should look into man page of zpool replace and scrub options from the old disk also always run a zpool export poolname , this allows for a import of a pool include you need to reload your system. Also zfa send and receive and setup a script to copy between hd or systems using the snapshot

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS problem after disk faliure

2008-01-06 Thread John Brewer
jabrewer, The problem is that I can't see how that would solve my problem, please elaborate. Replace does not work due to the erronous dual c2d0 -- It ought to read c2d0 _and_ c3d0, i.e. c3d0 was somehow named c2d0 in conflict with the real one :-( It seems that a logical name is

Re: [osol-discuss] How to determine what caused crash/freeze under load on Thinkpad T61p?

2008-01-06 Thread John Brewer
I installed SXDE 9/2007 about three weeks ago on my Thinkpad T61p. Very impressed, great stuff that would only be made better by a Cisco VPN client ;-) Recently however, I've been able to make the system freeze under fairly heavy load. (Running and testing a Java app on the same machine,

Re: [osol-discuss] How to create ISO image of a cd/dvd on Solaris

2007-12-23 Thread John Brewer
These commends used to work, under both Solaris and snv_bXX. This is a good iso image, this was used in a luupgrade from 10u4 w. patches to snv_b78, I tried to create a iso install dvd from the iso image! These commands used to work: bash-3.2# cdrw -i /zones/sol-nv-b78-x86-dvd.iso Looking for

Re: [osol-discuss] MySQL Java Server username and password Problem

2007-12-23 Thread John Brewer
Login in as root: bash-3.2# groupadd mysql bash-3.2# useradd mysql -g mysql bash-3.2# passwd mysql New Password: Re-enter new Password: New Password: Re-enter new Password: passwd: password successfully changed for mysql chown mysql:mysql /var/mysql /export/home/mysql bash-3.2# mkdir

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-23 Thread John Brewer
This is my own personal opinion, and a recommendation for SUN, The $120 dollar plan was nice in that it allowed for continued access to the 10 patches and email support form http://sunsolve.sun.com/ account for one year, it was both time saving and allowed SUN defrey the support costs, also

Re: [osol-discuss] Send Link in Firefox

2007-12-11 Thread John Brewer
Review and Install the latest patches, the 10u4 with out patches had a mime type issue in gnome with thunderbird: This was a Bug ID6608688 Synopsisgnome mime types not defined for in line url within mail message body Thunderbird even though it was a duplicate of not being able

[osol-discuss] snv_b78 download ready?

2007-12-11 Thread John Brewer
Any news on the snv_b78 download? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris with iSCSI Luns and IPMP 3 x 1 Gbe eth SAN . Is it sensib

2007-12-10 Thread John Brewer
You could take a look at Sun Trunking 1.3, but Sun Trunking 1.3, like any server trunking software, load balances the outgoing traffic, not the incoming packets. Trunking 1.3 software relies on the link partner (switch or server) to load balance the incoming packets. 1. Download the binary.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris with iSCSI Luns and IPMP 3 x 1 Gbe eth SAN . Is it sensib

2007-12-08 Thread John Brewer
Are you referring in using a IPMP, active-active configuration, You should read this, Modifying IPMP Configurations: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3000/deploynetmult-47?l=ena=view Also this is good reading, USING ISCSI MULTIPATHING IN THE SOLARIS™ 10 OPERATING SYSTEM:

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread John Brewer
Using the admin script is great for pkgadd / pkgrm for jumpstart kickstart and automated updates via scripts, A lot of venders have not kept up with this , here is man entry note form zoneadm: The act of installing a new non-global zone is a fresh ins- tallation of the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I change text and background colors?

2007-10-30 Thread John Brewer
Depending on which GUI you use it all over the board: i.e: xterm /usr/openwin/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults old CDE for dtterm /usr/dt/app-defaults X11 programs i.e: XOrgCfg XvidtuneSUNWgnome-session /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults Login manager for gdm /etc/X11 gnome

Re: [osol-discuss] Limiting Busy NFS Mount?

2007-10-16 Thread John Brewer
We use one Solaris NFS server to serve several mount points. One of the mount points serves a client that writes a large number of different small filles for long periods. This seems to hurt the performance of the clients of the other mount points. The server has no lack of cycles,

Re: [osol-discuss] Driver for broadcom 5787 NIC

2007-10-16 Thread John Brewer
submit a RFE at URL http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa and include the prtconf -pv , prtdiag -v and a /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v along with the other elements. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] max zones per cpu?

2007-10-03 Thread John Brewer
IF you want the best separation of zones run whole root zones, as you build your zones document the I and CPU restart has some options, collect the stats as you put zones to use, if this is production use check with Oracle for any product patches, Use the latest Oracle if you can. There is a

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of an OpenHardware Sparc project

2007-09-27 Thread John Brewer
On 25.09.2007 14:39, Simon Phipps wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:53, Joerg Schilling wrote: will be interested companies that like to replace the expensive ARM by a cheap Sparc. I doubt the prices like you outline. ARM CPUs are commodity hardware nowadays. And even if it were not,

Re: [osol-discuss] lucopy executes all read()s with size one

2007-09-22 Thread John Brewer
It looks like this is using standard cpio in the snv_b72 version with some options of 8192 size as a sub command and the parent process must be reading some type of status for completion, This is faster then the older versions, on my AMD x2 AM2 @ 3800 CPU's? /usr/sbin/lumake -n snv_70_c0d0s0

[osol-discuss] How do I actually install and use the precompiled module

2007-09-09 Thread John Brewer
Ok, dumb question of the day: How do I actually install and use the precompiled modules? I've dropped them (i86 and amd64) into the respective driver directories, did rem_drv and add_drv, but it still seems to load the internal one. I'd really like to use my iPod nano :) Thanks, -mg

[osol-discuss] sol-nv-b70-x86-dvd-iso zip files failed to download with download mgr

2007-08-18 Thread John Brewer
The files for snv_70 sol-nv-b70-x86-dvd-iso zip files fail to down load with download manager? Also wasn't the the snv_70 was respun and it was going to be the snv_70b version? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] sol-nv-b70-x86-dvd-iso zip files failed to

2007-08-18 Thread John Brewer
Hi John, snv_70 is being respun to 70a. But, that respin isn't complete yet. I imagine it will be available mid week. Regards, sarah *** So, I am advised not to install build 70 wait until 70b comes out? Thanks. I am downloading the 70 right now manually, I later try

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread John Brewer
The desktop for a common user vs a corporate revolves around plug and play, drop in a DVD play a home/corporate for training or a home made movie or even a store bought one DVD movie, let alone a dvx DVD/CD is also expected wo now work along with plug in your USB printer and it should prompt

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI vs. nVidia

2007-07-29 Thread John Brewer
True. ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. Nvidia is the way to go with Unixes, Solaris and Linux and such. Solarois 10u3 used the nv driver and OpenSolaris swtcihed snv_b65 from the nv to the nVidia I am not sure of all the reasons why maybe nVidia provides more feature enablement

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-25 Thread John Brewer
I downloaded gcc (GCC) 3.4.6, gnu bin tools , freetype-2.3.5 and fontforge_full-20070723 configure and compiled ok, however wine-0.9.41 compiled with this error: = -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -o

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-25 Thread John Brewer
The Wine can be so good, the seeds of dll's can be bitter, as we all know so well, back to the old drive c: we go and along with it's licenses! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-25 Thread John Brewer
I am using snv_b67 w. SUNWcxall cluster installed, I downloaded the mauture wine, and I get a rundll32.exe not found: bash-3.00# cd /opt/cfw/wine/bin bash-3.00# echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/cfw/wine/bin:. bash-3.00# wine

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-25 Thread John Brewer
I am using snv_b67 w. SUNWcxall cluster installed, I downloaded the mauture wine, and I get a rundll32.exe not found: bash-3.00# cd /opt/cfw/wine/bin bash-3.00# echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/cfw/wine/bin:. bash-3.00# wine

Re: [osol-discuss] What CPU run 64 bit kernel OpenSolaris

2007-07-05 Thread John Brewer
prtdiag -v will show the CPU type amd other system info, see the prtdiag man page. # prtdiag -v System Configuration: BIOS Configuration: Award Software International, Inc. F5 01/30/2007 Processor Sockets Version Location

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing a host name

2007-07-05 Thread John Brewer
Change these files, i.e hostname of odl server hostname to new hostname of test IP address: bash-3.00# cd /etc bash-3.00# ls -altr /etc/host* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 28 20:00 /etc/hosts - ./inet/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Jun 28 20:39 /etc/hostname.nge0

Re: [osol-discuss] Will opensolaris run on NForce 5?

2007-07-04 Thread John Brewer
Boot back up onto the DVD of snv_67 and open a command window after the language or boot up onto Solaris failesafe and do not mount the root if you do unmount it i.e umount /a, then run fsck the device path is needed i.e: fsck -F ufs -o b=32 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 If you keep having issues,

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 Update 4 questions

2007-07-04 Thread John Brewer
FYI http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=25601tstart=0 pcotten Posts: 13 From: EGO02 Registered: 6/22/06 ReadRe: Re: BrandZ, Xen and Chime for Solaris 10 U3 ? Posted: Jun 22, 2007 10:26 PM in response to: ghreyes in response to: ghreyes

Re: [osol-discuss] Fresh sc 3.2 install bug

2007-07-03 Thread John Brewer
Under production version Solaris the Recommended patches and the updatemanager along with the smpatch and pprosvc commands only patch the current release and not all the feature packages, to bring it up to a new /etc/release level of you want to update i.e from u2 to u3 and even to snv_67,

Re: [osol-discuss] Will opensolaris run on NForce 5?

2007-07-02 Thread John Brewer
I am running a Asus N2N-PV-VM MB and it loaded OK but the video only recognized the nv video with the driver and I was only able to get 3 choices gnome-display-properties of 1024x768 , 800x600, and 640x480, but then I ran the /usr/X11/bin/scanpci pci bus 0x cardnum 0x05 function 0x00:

[osol-discuss] Re: Trouble jumpstarting a new V210 box with Solaris-8

2007-06-13 Thread John Brewer
On the jumpstart server, what does the share command return? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Problem while Logging IN.... :(helo plesase...

2007-06-12 Thread John Brewer
If this is Solaris not windows correct, given root password and workgroup name 1. boot up the DVD or CD install and you can answer language prompt and the gui will start, then select the next region question, then the right click menu will be active, and you can bring up a terminal window, you

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Problem with Driver Intel Chipset 945G

2007-06-04 Thread John Brewer
Check out man page of lucreate , luupgrade, luactivate, lustatus just setup a unused slice and label as root under format This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Programming Contest in China Academic D

2007-05-17 Thread John Brewer
In regards to the Offer free training on OpenSolaris programming to academic developers both on-campus and on-line; is great/ if is available to OpenSolaris community's worldwide? And could the course examples and answers be included? Under the project page, there will be a repository to

[osol-discuss] Re: mouse configuration

2007-05-14 Thread John Brewer
Did your mouse work mouse work when the X-window came up during the install? Assuming the mouse your are using works under Linux or windows? Try a different brand of PS/2 mouse? If his previous suggestions about the PS/2 is enabled in the bios does not work try disabling USB mouse support in

[osol-discuss] Re: New project: JPack - install your software easily !

2007-05-11 Thread John Brewer
How does JPack interact with smc? If not are there plans to use JPack replace package management within smc framework? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Atheros Driver

2007-05-08 Thread John Brewer
Check the /etc/driver_aliases, mine already had a entry registred in snv_b62 and the kernel modules are there already, in my case I have nge driver in use as my primary interface. ath pci168c,13 ath pci168c,1014 ath pci168c,1a ath pci168c,1b bash-3.00# find / -name ath -print /kernel/drv/ath

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: mysqldump on server with zones ends

2007-05-07 Thread John Brewer
You need to type in /bin/env in the shell that you run your /zones/db/root/var/mysql4/bin/backup.sh program manually, then add it to (/bin/cron) the cron job and compare all the variables, cron runs a minimal shell environment . also check the /etc/default/cron dir, if you have specific mysql

[osol-discuss] Re: System crashes when filesystem is filled completely and deleted

2007-05-07 Thread John Brewer
Your should go back to Solaris 9 x86 if you can, and try the same test! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: bug_id=6497363 : rge should support RealTek

2007-05-05 Thread John Brewer
Did you submit a RFE as a reference to 6497363 include the info for scanpci -v and a prtdiag -pv , also provide the Jetway model number, website, etc and even verify what chips are on the MB. if the board has been loaded with Windows, provide the reg query hklm\system\currentcontrolset\enum\pci

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-05-03 Thread John Brewer
You might want to consider using the local disks for swap/tmpfs, remember you are over a fiber connection, HBA trimming parameters for any extreme paging you do, impacts the SANS EVA and other servers, also of you run Oracle or other apps on this that needs DISK IO, the swap on the SANS will be

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-05-02 Thread John Brewer
Are you sure on the Fcode version, you were at 3.3.117 what version are you trying to go to? Also did you run the power off command and power back on the properly for on power on reset, so the firmware loads into the HBA correctly, then you should see a new firmware level with your fcinfo

[osol-discuss] Re: qlc or fp drivers? solaris10

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
hello I have V240 , solaris10, QLA2342(HBA), connected to AMS500(HDS storage). 1. why I cannot see the Luns on PROM? 2. how I descover luns on the PROM? -- Details : -- ok show-devs . /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 /[EMAIL

[osol-discuss] Re: Dell D620, Broadcom NIC and B62 a Losing Combination?

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
On the old Solaris 9, the files that enabled the network was striate forward. /etc/hostname.interfaceX in my case was hostname.bge0. /etc/hostname.interfaceX /etc/hosts - (linked to) /etc/inet/hosts /etc/nodename /etc/defaultrouter /etc/netmasks other wise this will work. 1. Check modinfo and

[osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread John Brewer
does opensolaris allow a xenix drive to be mounted? I have an old xenix drive that people want data off of and it won't boot anymore. I can't find a xenix install set anywhere so am looking for another os that will allow me to mount it. Linux won't do it as far as I can tell. thanx If you

[osol-discuss] Re: gnome dumps core - sxce_b62 x86 upgrade from b59

2007-04-24 Thread John Brewer
have you tried to see what was in the core, i.e. use strings ./core |more or better yet use pmap or pstach ./core check the man page and check out the related commands. 1. bash-3.00# strings core|more CORE exename /pathtoexename CORE i86pc CORE CORE CORE :1.29 org.freedesktop. CORE

[osol-discuss] Re: ethernet card not found during installation ?

2007-04-23 Thread John Brewer
this sounds interesting...I will try asap Were you (peterma1) able to run submit the bug id? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE build 62

2007-04-23 Thread John Brewer
How current is the OBP? and is the RSC and a current level? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: ethernet card not found during installation ?

2007-04-22 Thread John Brewer
if it's a chip that matches one of the ones on the HCL, you might be able to associate a card it to the driver_aliases.. You should submit a big-id with prtconf -pv and the /usr/X11/bin/scanpci, or in the meantime, you can look on a HCL for a generic 10/100 realtek 8139 , the cards are

[osol-discuss] Re: Stale bootarchives. and recovery ?

2007-04-22 Thread John Brewer
Lars Tunkrans wrote: My feeling is that the system should, on its own initiative, immediately regenerate the boot-archive if some event makes it nessesary to do so. To postpone the boot-archive regeneration until the shutdown sequence is clearly not a strategy that

[osol-discuss] Re: Stale bootarchives. and recovery ?

2007-04-22 Thread John Brewer
so now all the of these commands is cleared up, This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] using b62 v. lucreate ERROR: Mount failed for: /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:boot

2007-04-21 Thread John Brewer
1. uninstalled SUNWluu, SUNWlur and SUNWlcfg with the build 62 version. I ran a newfs on /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 with no errors: then ran a lucreate lucreate -c first_disk -m /:/dev/dsk/c0d1s0:ufs -n second_disk and came up with two errors, also It took a really long time 3 times longer then normally

[osol-discuss] Re: Stale bootarchives. and recovery ?

2007-04-19 Thread John Brewer
I agree that the system should never be left in a unknown state boot-achive, In the bootadm man page there is a mention of update-archive, no no logic, on what triggers it. update-archiveUpdates current boot archive if required. Applies to both SPARC and x86

[osol-discuss] Re: Another cool video (Was: Three screencasts of OpenSolaris Technologies

2007-04-18 Thread John Brewer
It's a very nice video, two issues, one the MB they had picked has a USB issue on the kernel boot sequence and second the video is low resolution, which suggest the vender ID and device number for this video card used in the video is not supported is, you can tell by the big desktop icons and

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-17 Thread John Brewer
On 17/04/07, shay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what it the best way to upgrade from solaris 10 (update 3/05) to solaris 10 (update 11/06) ? liveupgrade, or boot from the CD and choose the upgrade option. -- Less is only more where more is no good. --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker,

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-17 Thread John Brewer
5. luupgrade -u -n second_disk -s /export/install/b60 -j /export/install/b60osprofile This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-16 Thread John Brewer
Have you applies the latest patch cluster There were quite a few patches that deal with Storage, MPXIO and kernel patches from http://SunSolve.sun.com or a better idea upgrade to Solaris 10 1107 version if you can? This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Intel945G onboard display not supported with Solaris10update3 installat

2007-04-16 Thread John Brewer
meetcm, Submit a BUG-ID/RFE on your Solaris install, include the /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v ,the prtconf -pv outputs and the X logs from /var/log directory. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris parted

2007-04-15 Thread John Brewer
So will these changes to libparted make it's way back into the regular distribution, so your changes will not get lost on new versions? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[osol-discuss] Re: Dangling /dev/rdsk entries remaining. Cleanup issue

2007-04-15 Thread John Brewer
Try running the command cfgadm -c unconfigure c# and then rerun the cfgadm -c configure c#, then you rerun your devfsadm -C command? You can run the cfgadm down to the device level, rather then the controller level, check the man page. If that does not work, run a dtrace or a truss against

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