One thing that did jar me the wrong way were the
silly childish looking
images that were selected for the installed. I have
no clue way anyone would
place images of icecream and a yellow construction
roller into an installer
for Solaris. In a company of vast technology that
creates such
Peter Lees wrote:
i haven't seen the pics, but my guess is that they're what the developers had
to hand rather than the likely final product.
Have you seen www.sun.com in the last two years? Random photos,
sometimes claiming to show the global impact of technology, other
times inexplicable,
During the install of Developer's install:
I miss the opportunity to layout filesystems within
my Solaris 2
partition. After I have chosen how I want to
partition my harddisk I
get some inqueries regarding Location, Timezone, root
password etc.
after which the installer just starts
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We
haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority
of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also
investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if there
It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as
the guest OS.
You mean with Solaris as a host OS?
Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks.
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UNIX admin wrote:
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed
the default layout.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We
haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority
of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also
investigating
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way.
We
haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the
majority
of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also
investigating
On 8/20/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed
the default layout.
Yes, to the point it breaks on any big disk when you use an x86 platform.
I tried a 200GB ATA disk, and it told me the '/' slice extended beyond
the first 1024
I beg to differ, as a Sun
customer we are going commodity all the way. We
haven't bought an Enterprise system since the
3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are
deploying are x4200s and T2000s.
I find it funny that you use T2000 and commodity hardware in the same sentence.
T2000
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
I mean, what good is a default when it has to be modified as a rule and not
an exception?
I think we need to find that how should the file system layout be designed?
thread and stick you in it
MC wrote:
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
I mean, what good is a default when it has to be modified as a rule and
not an exception?
I think we need to find that how should the file system layout be designed?
thread
Ian Collins wrote:
MC wrote:
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
I mean, what good is a default when it has to be modified as a rule and
not an exception?
I think we need to find that how should the file system
Hi, folks:
What does subgraph mean in the text:
milestone=milestone
Boot to the subgraph defined by the given
milestone. Legitimate milestones are none,
single-user, multi-user, multi-user-server,
and all.
We are going to translate the text. But I failed to find a official defination
of a
Sorry, I forgot to check my filters, that should have been
caiman-discuss only.
I actually filed a bug yesterday :)
Patrick
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Hello,
This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X based
PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
It did not went long, Solaris was unable to handle the HD... After some
thinking and some check on the net, I suppose it has to do with the 48bits
LBA issue (The 128 GB barrier). Back
Hello,
This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X based
PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
It did not went long, Solaris was unable to handle the HD... After some
thinking and some check on the net, I suppose it has to do with the 48bits
LBA issue (The 128 GB barrier). Back
Daniel Tourde wrote:
This would be better on opensolaris-help, CC'd.
Hello,
This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X based
PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
That shouldn't cause any problems.
It did not went long, Solaris was unable to handle the HD.
In what way?
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch.
For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows
Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it would be
automatically mounted but I was wrong .. snv_70
Hello,
First of all. I am sorry if I asked this question to the wrong forum. I will
send a mail to opensolaris-help as well. I am just a beginner on these
forums... ;)
This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X
based PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
It did not went
Lars Tunkrans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis , I agree with you that SNV70 is not mounting a Vista UDFS
dvd correctly
I did a clean Install of Snv_70 on a new disc ( a 10.000 rpm disc which
contributes
nicely to the speed of the system btw )
The automount by HAL and
Artem Kachitchkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 | more
hsfs
Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion we
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as
the guest OS.
You mean with Solaris as a host OS?
For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest
Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks.
Did someone use Xen and is it possible
Joerg Schilling wrote:
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as
the guest OS.
You mean with Solaris as a host OS?
For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest
Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks.
Did someone use
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 23:57 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed
the default layout.
Nope, same thing, a live
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest
Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks.
Did someone use Xen and is it possible to run MS-WIN on case that
the host platform supports Pacifica or Vanderbilt?
Technically yes it is
Hello,
I tried B70 (SXCE) this weekend and I noticed that with the new graphic
installer it was not possible anymore to decide over the partitioning (x Gb
in /, Y in /usr etc etc).
Will it come back in the future? (B71, B72?)
Daniel
--
I installed Neveda build 70 and it gives me the option to select
partitioning.
Thanks
P.S.M.Swamiji
Daniel Tourde wrote:
Hello,
I tried B70 (SXCE) this weekend and I noticed that with the new graphic
installer it was not possible anymore to decide over the partitioning (x Gb
in /, Y in /usr
Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
This WE I tried to install Solaris 11 Nevada, beta 70 on a ASUS P5VD1-X based
PC with a 320GB IDE HD.
It did not went long, Solaris was unable to handle the HD... After some
thinking and some check on the net, I suppose it has to do with the
Stephen Lau writes:
Gueven Bay wrote:
[...]
My question is - maybe someone just can clear it here - : It must be
possible to make a small installation of SXCE to compile on-src (I made
nightly compilations based on fully installed SXCE already, but I want to
minimize the installation
Daniel,
Thanks for trying the new installer.
If you choose the Solaris Developer Release install option you get the
new installer, it has restricted
ability over partitioning/slicing, and preservation. This feature will
be part of the new installer and is
planned for a future release,
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 23:57 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
I wonder what it would take to change that crazy small root, the rest for
/export/home/ layout?
Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed
the default
Hi,
Any updates on this?
I have tried to compile and nothing (I dont have that much experience :-/)..
maybe including it on the next build?
Thanks!
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I suggest people with issues take them to those lists
rather than air
them here.
Super. So:
- this is not a Solaris helpdesk
- Solaris 10 is not to be discussed here
- issues with OpenSolaris are not to be discussed here
What IS to be discussed on openSolaris-discuss then?
This message
All matters relating to the new installer and layout
have been and are
discussed on the caiman-discuss list, mostly copied
to the
install-discuss list.
I suggest people with issues take them to those lists
rather than air
them here.
FYI, I've already (long before you wrote this
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, UNIX admin wrote:
I suggest people with issues take them to those lists
rather than air
them here.
Super. So:
- this is not a Solaris helpdesk
- Solaris 10 is not to be discussed here
- issues with OpenSolaris are not to be discussed here
What IS to be discussed
Hello,
I tried B70 (SXCE) this weekend and I noticed that
with the new graphic
installer it was not possible anymore to decide over
the partitioning (x Gb
in /, Y in /usr etc etc).
Will it come back in the future? (B71, B72?)
Yes. I don't know when. Dave Miner would.
This
First, my situation. I have several disks of varying
sizes I would like to run as redundant storage ina
file server at home. Performance is not my number one
priority, largest capacity possible while allowing
for a single disk failure. Is there a soluton to my
problem?
My understanding is
Either way you can create a
RAID5/raidz with the drives and use excess space as
non-redundant storage. So pick your poison!
RAIDZ is NOT RAID5. The two are almost radically different.
For example, RAID5 MUST have at least three disks, RAIDZ can work with only two.
All disks in a RAID5
if I click on Display I get nothing but an hour glass
and then ... nothing.
I get a core file :
$ file core
core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from
'gnome_segv2'
mdb core
::status
$c
$q
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Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence
mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's
what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion
we treat hybrid
data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog asking for user's
preference. A
simpler
The new SNV 70 GUI installer looks nice and moves right along. But. I can't
find the advanced options button that lets me decide how to slice my solaris
partition. And the minimum size of 8G is a pain. I'm installing multiple
(throw-away) images under VMWare on a ThinkPad T61 and don't have
Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence
mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's
what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion
we treat hybrid
data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog asking for user's
preference. A
simpler
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, UNIX admin wrote:
I suggest people with issues take them to those lists
rather than air them here.
Super. So:
- this is not a Solaris helpdesk
right.
- Solaris 10 is not to be discussed here
right.
- issues with OpenSolaris are not to be discussed here
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence
mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's
what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion
we treat hybrid
data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog asking
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence
mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's
what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion
we treat hybrid
data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence
mountable as either hsfs
and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's
what HAL will use.
One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion
we treat hybrid
data+audio media, i.e. pop a
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Steven Sim wrote:
Gurus;
Is there a way, through the procfs of Solaris to determine whether the a
process has opened listening network ports?
Either using Perl or otherwise?
I know of a very iterative approach but if we apply the approach to all
the ports and the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why can't HAL simply cycle through the media, and mount ALL filesystems it
finds on it?
Generically, the 'cycle through' isn't that splendid an idea, especially
with multi-faced filesystems; a CD may contain:
- an ElTorito boot image which is a FAT
Lars Tunkrans wrote:
The automount by HAL and rmmount did not mount the UDF filesystem
All it did was mounting a HSFS where a little text file readme.txt with
the following message appeared.
This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating system
that supports
What I meant is that the wildcard feature, which would save me 3.5 GB of HD
space, is very difficult to find.
BTW, not just Dennis, but even my neighbor, who runs a cement business, is
telling me to use cdrecord. :-)
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UNIX admin wrote:
All matters relating to the new installer and layout have been and
are discussed on the caiman-discuss list, mostly copied to the
install-discuss list.
I suggest people with issues take them to those lists rather than
air them here.
FYI, I've already (long before you
Peter Tribble wrote:
Is there a registry of java package names, to avoid name clashes?
For example, in jkstat, can I just use org.opensolaris.jkstat?
(And what's the difference between org.opensolaris and org.opensolaris.os?)
It strikes me that there ought to be a central list of package
Greg Potts wrote:
Allen Wittenauer wrote: ...
As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server
back-end is supposed to
be pluggable, example code was (and probably still
is) non-existent
unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris
codebase. When I last
asked Dave Miner about it a few years
What I meant is that the wildcard feature, which would save me 3.5 GB of HD
space, is very difficult to find.
BTW, not just Dennis, but even my neighbor, who runs a cement business, is
telling me to use cdrecord. :-)
those cement people are pretty savvy. They know that construction never
Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lars Tunkrans wrote:
The automount by HAL and rmmount did not mount the UDF filesystem
All it did was mounting a HSFS where a little text file readme.txt
with
the following message appeared.
This disc contains a UDF file system
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I meant is that the wildcard feature, which would save me 3.5 GB of HD
space, is very difficult to find.
BTW, not just Dennis, but even my neighbor, who runs a cement business, is
telling me to use cdrecord. :-)
The ratio between what is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
This is what mkisofs does and it may be that a lot of other software works
in a similar way.
It is good practice to add hsfs for compatibility and the current mkisofs
version even supports to archive files up to 8 TB while it can only support
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand we can discuss how to make great coffee. That will
probably be on topic here.
My company has a nice policy - tea/coffee/etc are free, provided you
offer to make the rest of your team a drink if you get one for yourself.
On 8/20/07, Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can have the discussion here if that's what floats your boat, but
you can also be certain that most of the people you'd like to have the
discussion with will *not* be participating in it because they've got
better things to do than wade
Either way you can create a
RAID5/raidz with the drives and use excess space
as
non-redundant storage. So pick your poison!
RAIDZ is NOT RAID5. The two are almost radically
different.
For example, RAID5 MUST have at least three disks,
RAIDZ can work with only two.
All disks in a
No offense taken, I just feel generally bad pestering
the Solaris
developers. On topic: here is a closeup of Vista, Mac
and Ubuntu fonts. It
would be interesting to see Solaris fonts too? And
maybe mail the
blogger?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=682
--
The ZDNet writer
Gurus;
Is there a way, through the procfs of Solaris to
determine whether the a
process has opened listening network ports?
Either using Perl or otherwise?
I know of a very iterative approach but if we apply
the approach to all
the ports and the processes in a running system, it
those cement people are pretty savvy. They know that
construction never
goes out of style and it is the most stable
investment if done right.
dc
Actually, these days it is more profitable importing (construction grade) sand
from Canada. I was often told that you will do very well
one user login into solaris, when using SecureCRT with ssh, the
$PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin.
but when using xmanager , the
$PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
could you tell me the reason?
It's that time of month for the SVOSUG meeting again, and we have
something a little different than our normal type meetings, and as of
recent I've been getting requests to show compiz at the user group meeting
and/or show it running on Solaris/OpenSolaris.
This month we'll be doing an
Hi Bill,
Queries about the new installer are best answered at caiman-discuss
mailing list which is the list for new installer related discussions.
Some of the points below have already been raised on that list and
responded to. You may want to look at the archives before posting the
query.
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