Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-23 Thread Stephen Lau
Philip Machanick wrote: From what I've seen so far, a current-model Dell should be OK except wireless may be a while off ready. I have a budget I have to spend this year (in practice this means by end October) but my serious use will start next year so provided wireless is being worked on that

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the

2005-10-23 Thread TJ Yang
> SchilliX won't be able to compete with GNU/Solaris as > a desktop. In the Linux and BSD world, distributions > need to find a niche to remain popular. For SchilliX, > this might be servers and the "authentic Solaris > experience". You've done a great job packaging > OpenSolaris in a usable form,

[osol-discuss] Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2005-10-23 Thread Nikhil
Yoseph.. can you please correct your mail id, it is bouncing.  On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, due to being unable to connect successfully to the destina

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-23 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Philip Machanick wrote: From what I've seen so far, a current-model Dell should be OK except wireless may be a while off ready. I have a budget I have to spend this year (in practice this means by end October) but my serious use will start next year so provided wireless is being worked on that

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Jake Maciejewski
SchilliX won't be able to compete with GNU/Solaris as a desktop. In the Linux and BSD world, distributions need to find a niche to remain popular. For SchilliX, this might be servers and the "authentic Solaris experience". You've done a great job packaging OpenSolaris in a usable form, but other

[osol-discuss] Re: Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-23 Thread Philip Machanick
>From what I've seen so far, a current-model Dell should be OK except wireless >may be a while off ready. I have a budget I have to spend this year (in >practice this means by end October) but my serious use will start next year so >provided wireless is being worked on that would be OK. Anyone

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Jake Maciejewski
Thank you for the clarification. GNU/Solaris sounds like it will be the ideal OpenSolaris desktop. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Erast Benson
Guys, let me clarify a little bit on what GNU/Solaris distro is. The idea behind it is simple: do not re-invent the wheel and try to re-use existing 17000 high quality Debian packages, Debian infrastracture(read Dpkg, APT repositories, Debootstraps, installation program, utilities, developer's po

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading to solaris 10 10/05 from 03/05

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I had earlier installed OpenSolaris 03/05 x86 platform system, but now I am planning to upgrade it to Solaris 10/05 release without any installation . Is there anyway where I can upgrade without disturbing the existing system. much like the way of up2date/yum on Li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Moinak . Ghosh
>Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Let us face reality... > >Belenix has been developped by starting with SchilliX >and modifying it. Um ... I'd strongly object to this statement! It is correct that 2 ideas were taken from the earlier discussions on this list: * Using

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless on SPARC?

2005-10-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sean Sprague wrote: > Does anyone know whether I will ever (or possibly when I > might) be able to get my Ultra 60 to speak wireless? I know > that Bob Palowoda asked some time ago, but is there any > update please? I dunno about internal PCI cards, but you could always attac

[osol-discuss] A 42-in-1 flash card reader project

2005-10-23 Thread ken mays
For innovative college students looking for the next big thing in software engineering: Coming to an OpenSolaris project near you: http://www.xpcgear.com/42i1cardreader.html ~Ken Mays @ EarthLink, Inc. __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple trave

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: Joerg, I have X.org 6.8.2 libraries, binaries, and header packages built for Solaris 8/9/10 (x86/SPARC) over at Blastwave. Could these work for you?!? I have Schillix 0.2 so do I need to know something to port X.org over to Schillix that you know of or is everything just a ./con

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread ken mays
Joerg, I have X.org 6.8.2 libraries, binaries, and header packages built for Solaris 8/9/10 (x86/SPARC) over at Blastwave. Could these work for you?!? I have Schillix 0.2 so do I need to know something to port X.org over to Schillix that you know of or is everything just a ./configure & smake ?!?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand why X is a priority. You provide fluxbox as a window > manager instead of a full desktop like GNOME, KDE, or XFCE. You don't provide > GUI web browsers like Firefox and Konqueror, email apps like Thunderbird and > Evolution, or an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
powwop wrote: Hi All, the following is what I've tried for mounting, mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 /cdrom I usually mount with the command mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 /cdrom with these errors mount:No such device mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 mount -F iso9660 /dev/dsk/c1t0d

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading to solaris 10 10/05 from 03/05

2005-10-23 Thread Erast Benson
Debian GNU/Solaris will offer similar options as a standard Debian Update feature. It will also bring full set of graphical tools, such as integrated into GNOME desktop update-notifier, Synaptic, etc. First Alpha release is planned at November. Erast On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:13 +0530, Nikhil wro

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread powwop
Hi All, the following is what I've tried for mounting, mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 /cdrom with these errors mount:No such device mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 mount -F iso9660 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 with these errors mount: Operation not applicable to FSType iso9660 Cheers. powpow... This

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread powwop
> What kind of CDROM device is that? ATAPI? SCSI? USB? > Firewire? IDE. > > Did you change the hardware configuration (e.g. > after installing > Solaris, changed an ATAPI CDROM from master device to > slave device)? no. > > After running "devfsadm -v" (probes for new devices), > does the ou

[osol-discuss] utmpx_write_boottime

2005-10-23 Thread Nikhil
At : http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/cmd/svc/startd/utmpx.c   I happened to go through utmpx_write_boottime(void) : linenumber:354     ---   354 utmpx_write_boottime(void) 355 { 356 time_t tstamp; 357 struct stat stbuf; 358 359 /* 360 * The D

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread Martin 'MC' Brown
rmformat command wasn't found. Cheers. It's beginning to sound like you have a less than perfect installation of Solaris. I would re-install Solaris from the latest Solaris Express builds and ensure that the installation completes successfully. MC -- Martin 'MC' Brown, http://MCslp.com

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-23 Thread powwop
Hi All, rmformat command wasn't found. Cheers. powpow... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wireless on SPARC?

2005-10-23 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey Bob! I can't remember why I would bring up wireless on an Ultra 60. No doubt I misquoted you ;-) Maybe I was refering to an Ultra IIi based laptop. I don't use wireless on workstations but short of writing the drivers yourself you could use the ASUS WL-330-g wireless/ethernet bridge/a

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] source of boottime for uptime other than utmpx/wtmpx

2005-10-23 Thread Nikhil
Thanks Frank.  now coming to my actual problem..   what if /var/adm/utmpx or /var/adm/wtmpx are removed or corrupted ? the dependents like who, uptime will be in soar bussiness then... I mean they will try to get the system boot time ("system boot" message) , what if they do not find the message an

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading to solaris 10 10/05 from 03/05

2005-10-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>Hello > I had earlier installed OpenSolaris 03/05 x86 platform system, but now I am >planning to upgrade it to Solaris 10/05 release without any installation . >Is there anyway where I can upgrade without disturbing the existing system. >much like the way of up2date/yum on Linux systems. > Regard

[osol-discuss] upgrading to solaris 10 10/05 from 03/05

2005-10-23 Thread Nikhil
Hello   I had earlier installed OpenSolaris 03/05 x86 platform system, but now I am planning to upgrade it to Solaris 10/05 release without any installation . Is there anyway where I can upgrade without disturbing the existing system. much like the way of up2date/yum on Linux systems.   Regards, N

[osol-discuss] Re: Wireless on SPARC?

2005-10-23 Thread Bob Palowoda
> Does anyone know whether I will ever (or possibly > when I > might) be able to get my Ultra 60 to speak wireless? > I know > that Bob Palowoda asked some time ago, but is there > any > update please? I can't remember why I would bring up wireless on an Ultra 60. Maybe I was refering to an

[osol-discuss] Build a Solaris 10 distribution CD

2005-10-23 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, as far as I know, I can find a bootable Solaris 10 installer CD/DVD from Sun's site, the Solaris Express CD. I tried to find any document explaining how to build such a CD by myself directly from OpenSolaris sources/binaries, with no success. If the license permits, I'd love to be able to