Re: [osol-discuss] [b 133] Catching messages on reboot from failure
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:14:24 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Why is the console interface left so primitive?. Seems it would at least have a usable mouse so one could have some chance of copy paste when there are what appear to be important messages written to console. (stuff deleted) Hi Harry, I'm not sure if you were venting or asking a question, and if you were asking a question I may or may not have a good answer for you. But I also have somewhat of a linux background. I think that Osol also has a dmesg file like linux does, but I'm not positive. (That's where boot-up messages would go, just type dmesg in a terminal.) Otherwise, general system log messages in osol go in /var/adm/messages (as opposed to /var/log/messages in linux). Or poke around in /var and/or /var/adm to see if there are any other interesting log files... I found the /var/adm location by poking around because I knew there had to be some system log files around somewhere. Then you can open the log file in your favorite text editor (gui or vi or whichever) HTH. Cia W ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!
Given the new license details for what will be Oracle Solaris 11 Express, it appears I won't be upgrading my snv_134 osol to Sol11 express (since I'm not a developer), and so am looking forward to details about OpenIndiana. I have one question at the moment: Will there be ext3 and/or ext4 support? I have a shared data partition in ext3 that I would need to be able to mount periodically. Thanks. Cia On 09/ 9/10 03:53 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On Tuesday 14th September, we will be unveiling OpenIndiana – an exciting new distribution of OpenSolaris! OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. It was conceived during the period of uncertainty following the Oracle takeover of Sun Microsystems, after several months passed with no binary updates made available to the public. The formation proved timely, as Oracle has since discontinued OpenSolaris in favour of Solaris 11 Express, a binary distribution with a more closed development model to debut later this year. OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation, and provides a true open source community alternative to Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, with an open development model and full community participation. - ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!
On 09/11/2010 07:54 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Cia Watson wrote: I have one question at the moment: Will there be ext3 and/or ext4 support? I have a shared data partition in ext3 that I would need to be able to mount periodically. There is already a read only filesystem package that allows mounting of NTFS, FAT, and ext3 partitions. http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/entry/mount_ntfs_ext2_ext3_in http://watters.ws/mediawiki/index.php/Mount_ext3_drives_in_Solaris ___ Thanks for the info., I did find an ext3 module and info here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ext3/Quick+howto So I've had read-write access to a data partition formatted as ext3, I just wanted to make sure there would be similar support in OpenIndiana. I received a reply from Ken M. that there will be support for ext3/4 and NTFS. It's all good. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express
On 08/23/10 11:06 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe?Google non profit services? seems like somebody already started one but don't know if it is still active http://www.freelists.org/list/osol-discuss I believe I joined that list, haven't seen any traffic from it. And I'm still using osol snv_134 until it's replacement (Oracle 11 express) comes along... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Duel boot b134 and Windows 7
On 07/26/10 04:45 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote: I installed build 134 first on disk c4d0p1 then installed Windows 7 which it put on c4d0p2boot sector and c4d0p3 Windows 7. Using the LiveCD for b134 I went back in and changed the active partition back to c4d0p1 so I am now able to boot back to b134. I then modified the menu.lst adding: title Windows 7 64 bit rootnoverify (hd0,3) chainloader +1 Then running installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4d0s0 Grub now comes up with the Windows 7 but when I select it the screen repaints and that is it. Can someone tell what went wrong? I ran into this same issue when I set up my grub (triple boot now with Fedora and rhel v6 beta2). The file you want to modify is /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst then add your chainloader entry to the bottom of the file. I see you subsequently re-installed, so this should work for future reference. Though a menu.lst file comes up under /boot/grub, you need to edit the one in /rpool/boot/grub. Cia ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] printer installation
Are you familiar with CUPS at all? I actually just set up my printer yesterday, it's an old one for which I had the ppd file (cups postscript printer definition file). Look here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro and if you can find the best ppd file for your printer, you can always edit the current information for the printer that is somewhat installed and attach the ppd. Or, you might also want to download the foomatic database files through the software installer, which will give CUPS more printer options I believe. One last thing you may or may not be familiar with, it's sometimes easier to deal with CUPS using your browser instead of the gui -- just go to http://localhost:631 and that should bring up the cups interface. If or when it asks for a user and password, use root user otherwise it gets cranky and won't let you do anything. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start
I haven't tried USB boot on that laptop -- it does have 1 USB 1.1 port, it's an IBM thinkpad 600x. I don't own any usb / thumb drives and haven't taken the time to figure out how to do a usb boot (if it's even possible). Sorry. However, on the livecd the error message it gives after module /boot/milax is this: Error 3: Bad or corrupt data while decompressing file. Press any key to continue. I then tried the RAM based and text console boot and they ended up with the same error. I burned the image to a CD-RW, and before posting this I checked the md5sum of the disk (/media/MilaX) and it came up with a different md5sum than the original iso. However, the original iso had the correct sum. So I tried burning the image to a CD-R and that ended up with the same md5sum as the CD-RW which didn't match the milax05.iso sum. Since Brasero crashes (and I haven't yet installed the new cdrecord ) when I insert a CD-RW disk in OpenSolaris, I burned that in Fedora 13 on my ASUS external usb dvd-rw drive. I burned the image to the CD-R just now using Brasero in OpenSolaris snv_134 on my internal LG drive. fwiw. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start
As a matter of fact (or coincidence?) I do have a laptop with 256mb of ram and tried to boot Milax 0.5 just last weekend. It wouldn't boot due to some issue with compression or uncompressing files. I think I tried it with the vesa driver also, same error message. It's currently running Fedora11 lxde and Puppy linux (slaxer pup) so I tried Milax just to see if it would work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Install hangs at 99%
I tried installing the 2009.06 livecd this morning and after it completed the transfer process it didn't complete the installation but then it crashed when I tried to view the install log. I did some more looking around, and I'm now booted to the dev-134 iso cd, and this one at least got me online from the start (typing now from the livecd). I checked the device driver utility and it shows driver problems: 0. But when I tried to install just a bit ago, it got as far as 'complete transfer process' 99% and it sat there for 10-15 minutes when I opened a terminal and looked at top and it showed install-gui was asleep. So, how do I make it finish when it's so close to being complete? In case it matters, I'm installing to the 3rd partition, with Fedora 13 and a swap partition in the 1st 2 spots. I didn't set the sda3 partition as bootable, I figured the installer would do that, and what I read on the install instructions didn't specify that it had to be flagged as bootable. I do have the info. to add Fedora into the grub if or when it completes an install. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
