[OpenIndiana-discuss] new screenshots on the OI web site

[Chris Mosetick]

Hi all,

Just wanted to let everyone know I put up some new screenshots of 
OpenIndiana b148 on the main website: http://openindiana.org/screenshots/


If anyone has a wikipedia account, it would be great if someone could put 
a couple new ones on our en.wikipedia.org entry. Thank you to who ever put 
up the screenshots I took of b147 on wikipedia before.


I put up magnet links on the download page a couple days ago, thanks to 
taemun for providing them.


Also, I put checksum hashes directly on the download page for quick 
viewing the other day too.


We had 14,360 page loads on the main web site on Saturday 12/18, with 
4,776 unique visitors. I think that is worth mentioning! I wish I could 
have had some new screen shots up then!


I want to say thank you to the developers for their hard work on this 
release, and to everyone that is helping to report bugs.


Cheers,

---
N2Deep

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:58:32PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Gary Mills  writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
> >> 
> >> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris 
> >> well?
> >
> > This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris.  It runs Openindiana
> > flawlessly.  All the devices are supported.
> >
> > o Motherboard:
> > ASUS M4A785T-M/CSM mATX AM3 DDR3 AMD 785G PCI-E16 PCI-E1 2PCI 6SATA
> > GBLAN Radeon HD 4200 Motherboard $99.99
> 
> The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX

That was because I had a micro ATX case.  I believe ASUS also makes
a similar board in the ATX form factor.

-- 
-Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services-

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

Any ATX type motherboard will fit in an ATX case - you'll just not use
the entire motherboard tray and all standoffs.

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam  wrote:
> Gary Mills  writes:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris 
>>> well?
>>
>> This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris.  It runs Openindiana
>> flawlessly.  All the devices are supported.
>>
>> o Motherboard:
>>     ASUS M4A785T-M/CSM mATX AM3 DDR3 AMD 785G PCI-E16 PCI-E1 2PCI 6SATA
>>     GBLAN Radeon HD 4200 Motherboard $99.99
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX
>
> Does that mean the screw holes won't fit an ATX MidTower (antec sonata)
>
>
> ___
> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
>



-- 
" ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech
censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied,
chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron
Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is
trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron
Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead"
- Alex Smith (K4RNT)
- Falls Church, Virginia USA

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Harry Putnam]

"Kevin J. Woolley"  writes:

> On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam"  said:
>
>> A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
>> choice.
>> 
>> I've been running osol on this hardware:
>> 
>> cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
>> motherboard: AOpen AK86-L  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
>> hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB
>
> Hi Harry,
>
> I'm grabbing ideas from the NCIX site.  They have a US site as well,
> so use these links to get the SKUs and look up the SKUs on the NCIX
> USA site if you're in the US.

Thanks for the input and research.


___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Harry Putnam]

Gary Mills  writes:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
>> 
>> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well?
>
> This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris.  It runs Openindiana
> flawlessly.  All the devices are supported.
>
> o Motherboard:
> ASUS M4A785T-M/CSM mATX AM3 DDR3 AMD 785G PCI-E16 PCI-E1 2PCI 6SATA
> GBLAN Radeon HD 4200 Motherboard $99.99

Thanks for the input.

The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX

Does that mean the screw holes won't fit an ATX MidTower (antec sonata)


___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mouse pointers - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Dmitry G. Kozhinov  [2010-12-21 23:21]:
> Hi all,
> 
> In OpenSolaris 2009.06 there were nice mouse pointers.
> Eventually they gone bad in 2010.03 and 11 Express (cannot understand why).

That was simply a bug.

> Obviously to fix these, in OpenIndiana build 148 we see the third
> breed of them (taken from Linux?). I don't like these - the arrow
> has too sharp tips, and the hand is simply awful. Classical
> wristwatch pointer replaced with some "wheel".
> 
> How can I get 2009.06 pointers back?
> Aren't they a part of Nimbus theme?
> I don't want my OI installation to look like Linux.

No, the mouse cursors are not part of the Nimbus theme, they were
simply retrieved from gnome-look.org. The great thing about
themes is that you can change them, so if you'd like to get that
Windows 3.1-look back you can simply download the old Neutral
Plus Inverted cursor theme yourself from
http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/70481-Neutral_Plus_Inv.tar.gz

-- 
Guido Berhoerster

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana 134+ Stable X86, rev. 11

[Alexander Sergeev]

Hi Apostolos,

That's unfortunate that 134+ is not working well for you and I'll try
to help you with that.  However, in order for me to help, your problem
has to be fixed upstream - in OpenIndiana, Nexenta or latest published
ONNV build, in which case I would be able to backport such fix in 134+
release branch.

So, can you test whether these problems are reproducible on OI 148 release?

Rgds,
Alex

---

I have installed this "release" on a 32-bit system and the iprb fails to attach
and so the system has no Internet connection. Unfortunately I cannot provide
any other info since I destroyed the BE. Also, after upgrading a 64-bit system
the

Device Driver Tool indicates reports that

"ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCIo Contro Misconfigured:[ohci]"

The info follows:

node name:  pci1458,5004
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Device: SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
Sub-Vendor: Giga-byte Technology
binding name:   pciclass,0c0310
devfs path: /pci at 0,0/pci1458,5004
pci path:   0,13,0
compatible name:
(pci1002,4397.1458.5004.0)(pci1002,4397.1458.5004)(pci1458,5004)(pci1002,4397.0)(pci1002,4397)(pciclass,0c0310)(pciclass,0c03)

driver name:ohci
driver state:   Detached
acpi-namespace: _SB_.PCI0.USB3
assigned-addresses: 82009810
reg:9800
compatible: pci1002,4397.1458.5004.0
model:  Universal Serial Bus OHCI compliant
power-consumption:  1
66mhz-capable:  TRUE
fast-back-to-back:  TRUE
devsel-speed:   1
interrupts: 1
max-latency:0
min-grant:  0
subsystem-vendor-id:1458
subsystem-id:   5004
unit-address:   13
class-code: c0310
revision-id:0
vendor-id:  1002
device-id:  4397


A.S.

--
Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mouse pointers - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

Hi all,

In OpenSolaris 2009.06 there were nice mouse pointers.
Eventually they gone bad in 2010.03 and 11 Express (cannot understand why).
Obviously to fix these, in OpenIndiana build 148 we see the third breed 
of them (taken from Linux?). I don't like these - the arrow has too 
sharp tips, and the hand is simply awful. Classical wristwatch pointer 
replaced with some "wheel".


How can I get 2009.06 pointers back?
Aren't they a part of Nimbus theme?
I don't want my OI installation to look like Linux.

See http://www.iconedit2.com/cursors.gif 



- Dmitry.
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Lou Picciano]

Harry, 


As the discussion has apparently opened up to Intel chips, let me weigh in. I 
claim no comprehensive knowledge of the state of the art, but did quite a bit 
of research at the point of making some purchase decisions, now 2+ yrs ago. 


I've been running - with great success, Oi on a GigaByte GA-DQ6-X38T. Newer 
versions of these boards, in the midrange, are relatively inexpensive, give you 
three channels of memory, and should be more than serviceable. CPU is an Intel 
Q6600. Love it. 


Major attraction of the GB boards is that everything's tweakable. I've gotten 
settings working such that the CPU is running at 3.4 GHz, and memory at 1600. 
Has been really reliable, and still runs relatively cool. 


On the CPU side, I liked reports of it's being over-clockable, and it's lived 
up to its reputation. In addition, it has the SSE3 features we were looking for 
re virtualization. It's a bit more power-hungry than newer generations... 


Caveats: 
- Some have reported problems with the RealTek Gigabit ethernet ports under Oi; 
I haven't seen any. 
- Radeon 3D driver support for Oi (may or may not apply to you): I've been told 
'no time soon'. I can simply change cards if this ever matters; are you looking 
at mobos with on-board Radeon? 


this motherboard is only a two-channel memory, but newer models have three. 


Have fun! Lou 

- Original Message - 
From: "Harry Putnam"  
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org 
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:00:34 PM 
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards 

A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard 
choice. 

I've been running osol on this hardware: 

cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ 
motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM 
hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB 

The motherboard has given up the ghost. 

I want to replace it, but at the same time do some kind of light 
upgrade. 

I'd like to find a replacement motherboard that will take more ram. 
The one above is maxed at 3GB. 

I doubt it would work to use 2gb sticks in a new similar board but I'm 
not sure if that is the case. 

I haven't really noticed a crying need for more cpu since my usage is 
light compared to many here just a home zfs lan server. Mostly 
for backup of video editing projects and the C drive of several 
windows machines. 

But always a good idea to increase cpu during an upgrade. Maybe moving 
into multiple core territory as well 

Probably will necessitate a new powersupply as well. The current one 
is 400 watts. Probably too weak and maybe doesn't have the newer 
connections that might be needed. 

I'm not looking for the latest and greatest, but thinking there is 
some milder upgrade board that has plenty of sata ports and will take 
at least 6 GB ram 

I'm sorry to report being so lazy but the idea of trying to sort 
through the thousands of googled hits it's ... well its daunting. It 
would seem to require a considerably greater knowledge of specs and 
such than have. 

I hoped to hear from someone who actually has experience with 
something that fills the bill. 

I'm thinking older motherboards but newer than the one above. 

Can anyone here vouch for something that fits the bill? 


___ 
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list 
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org 
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss 
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana 134+ Stable X86, rev. 11

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

 Hello,

I have installed this "release" on a 32-bit system and the iprb fails to attach
and so the system has no Internet connection. Unfortunately I cannot provide
any other info since I destroyed the BE. Also, after upgrading a 64-bit system 
the 

Device Driver Tool indicates reports that 

"ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCIo Contro Misconfigured:[ohci]"

The info follows:

node name:  pci1458,5004
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Device: SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
Sub-Vendor: Giga-byte Technology
binding name:   pciclass,0c0310
devfs path: /p...@0,0/pci1458,5004
pci path:   0,13,0
compatible name:
(pci1002,4397.1458.5004.0)(pci1002,4397.1458.5004)(pci1458,5004)(pci1002,4397.0)(pci1002,4397)(pciclass,0c0310)(pciclass,0c03)

driver name:ohci
driver state:   Detached
acpi-namespace: _SB_.PCI0.USB3
assigned-addresses: 82009810
reg:9800
compatible: pci1002,4397.1458.5004.0
model:  Universal Serial Bus OHCI compliant
power-consumption:  1
66mhz-capable:  TRUE
fast-back-to-back:  TRUE
devsel-speed:   1
interrupts: 1
max-latency:0
min-grant:  0
subsystem-vendor-id:1458
subsystem-id:   5004
unit-address:   13
class-code: c0310
revision-id:0
vendor-id:  1002
device-id:  4397


A.S.

--
Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece



  

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
> 
> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well?

This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris.  It runs Openindiana
flawlessly.  All the devices are supported.

o Motherboard:
ASUS M4A785T-M/CSM mATX AM3 DDR3 AMD 785G PCI-E16 PCI-E1 2PCI 6SATA
GBLAN Radeon HD 4200 Motherboard $99.99

o 4 Memory: 1333/1066/800 ECC unbuffered
Kingston ValueRAM KVR1333D3E9S/2G 2GB 1X2GB PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 CL9
ECC 240PIN DIMM Memory Module $69.99

o CPU:
AMD Phenom II X4 925 Quad Core Processor AM3 2.8GHZ 6MB L3 Cache 95W
Retail Box $165.43


-- 
-Gary Mills--Unix Group--Computer and Network Services-

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Edward Martinez]

On 12/21/10 10:42, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:

On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 02:34, "Edward Martinez"  
said:


   Hi,

  I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have
a system using the 240 series,  Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex,
opensolaris,etc do not work  due
  to a bug in the CPU; the problem is  the screen gets flooded with
the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4,
after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of  inherited  to
the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250*cpu

   this is the bug report i filed  back in march :
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

Hi Edward,

Thanks for the warning!  I haven't tried to run Solaris on that particular CPU 
(I'm an Intel sort of guy myself), but recommended it because Harry's existing 
system was AMD-based.

Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well?

Thanks again!

Cheers,

kjw



___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss



   Hi,

   Since that bug, I have converted to  only Intel cpus, openindiana 
runs great on the corei3 system i just build :-) However, that last 
amd cpu i bought that openindiana installed   was  an amd athlon 2 x4 
620. seems that bug only relies on the dual core anthlon 2.


  Regards
  Edward


___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] should OI be listed at opensolaris.org site

[Jerry Kemp]

How about genunix?

http://www.genunix.org/

Jerry


On 12/21/10 03:46, Edward Martinez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking if it's a good idea to have OI listed as one of "Community
> Distributions" along with others already listed  on opensolaris.org
> site, so newcomers that visits that site will know about OI.
> 
> here:
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+distribution/links
> 
> 
> Regards
> Edward
> ___
> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Kevin J. Woolley]

On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 02:34, "Edward Martinez"  
said:

>   Hi,
> 
>  I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have
> a system using the 240 series,  Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex,
> opensolaris,etc do not work  due
>  to a bug in the CPU; the problem is  the screen gets flooded with
> the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4,
> after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of  inherited  to
> the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250*cpu
> 
>   this is the bug report i filed  back in march :
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

Hi Edward,

Thanks for the warning!  I haven't tried to run Solaris on that particular CPU 
(I'm an Intel sort of guy myself), but recommended it because Harry's existing 
system was AMD-based.

Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well?

Thanks again!

Cheers,

kjw



___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Edward Martinez]

On 12/21/10 10:14, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:

On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam"  said:


A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
choice.

I've been running osol on this hardware:

 cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
motherboard: AOpen AK86-L  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB

Hi Harry,

I'm grabbing ideas from the NCIX site.  They have a US site as well, so use 
these links to get the SKUs and look up the SKUs on the NCIX USA site if you're 
in the US.

For the motherboard it sounds like this one will fit the bill, at CAD81 or so:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=46944&vpn=M4A77TD&manufacture=ASUS

You'll need a new CPU, but that can be had for ~CAD70:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=56116&vpn=ADX250OCGMBOX&manufacture=AMD

This RAM will give you 8GB right away at a little over CAD100 and keep two of 
the motherboard's four slots open to be able to upgrade to 16GB:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=53427&vpn=CMX8GX3M2A1333C9&manufacture=Corsair

You'll likely need a new PSU, as you said.  Here's one that's not too fancy but 
will give you 500W for CAD46:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=45267&vpn=AL-D500EXP&manufacture=Apex%20Computer%20Technology

The motherboard also includes six SATA2 connectors, so you have room to grow 
(or replace your PATA devices).

Hope that helps,

kjw



___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss



 Hi,

I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have 
a system using the 240 series,  Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex, 
opensolaris,etc do not work  due
to a bug in the CPU; the problem is  the screen gets flooded with 
the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4, 
after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of  inherited  to  
the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250*cpu


 this is the bug report i filed  back in march :
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

 Regards
 Edward

*





*
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Kevin J. Woolley]

On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam"  said:

> A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
> choice.
> 
> I've been running osol on this hardware:
> 
> cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
> motherboard: AOpen AK86-L  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
> hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB

Hi Harry,

I'm grabbing ideas from the NCIX site.  They have a US site as well, so use 
these links to get the SKUs and look up the SKUs on the NCIX USA site if you're 
in the US.

For the motherboard it sounds like this one will fit the bill, at CAD81 or so:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=46944&vpn=M4A77TD&manufacture=ASUS

You'll need a new CPU, but that can be had for ~CAD70:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=56116&vpn=ADX250OCGMBOX&manufacture=AMD

This RAM will give you 8GB right away at a little over CAD100 and keep two of 
the motherboard's four slots open to be able to upgrade to 16GB:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=53427&vpn=CMX8GX3M2A1333C9&manufacture=Corsair

You'll likely need a new PSU, as you said.  Here's one that's not too fancy but 
will give you 500W for CAD46:

http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=45267&vpn=AL-D500EXP&manufacture=Apex%20Computer%20Technology

The motherboard also includes six SATA2 connectors, so you have room to grow 
(or replace your PATA devices).

Hope that helps,

kjw



___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Harry Putnam]

A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
choice.

I've been running osol on this hardware:

cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
motherboard: AOpen AK86-L  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB  

The motherboard has given up the ghost.

I want to replace it, but at the same time do some kind of light
upgrade. 

I'd like to find a replacement motherboard that will take more ram.
The one above is maxed at 3GB.

I doubt it would work to use 2gb sticks in a new similar board but I'm
not sure if that is the case.

I haven't really noticed a crying need for more cpu since my usage is
light compared to many here just a home zfs lan server.  Mostly
for backup of video editing projects and the C drive of several
windows machines.

But always a good idea to increase cpu during an upgrade. Maybe moving
into multiple core territory as well

Probably will necessitate a new powersupply as well.  The current one
is 400 watts.  Probably too weak and maybe doesn't have the newer
connections that might be needed.

I'm not looking for the latest and greatest, but thinking there is
some milder upgrade board that has plenty of sata ports and will take
at least 6 GB ram

I'm sorry to report being so lazy but the idea of trying to sort
through the thousands of googled hits it's ... well its daunting.  It
would seem to require a considerably greater knowledge of specs and
such than have.

I hoped to hear from someone who actually has experience with
something that fills the bill.

I'm thinking older motherboards but newer than the one above.

Can anyone here vouch for something that fits the bill?


___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] should OI be listed at opensolaris.org site

[Hillel Lubman]

But openindiana is planning to switch from being OpenSolaris based to being
illumos based. So formally speaking it would not be an OpenSolaris
distribution.

Regards,

Hillel.

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking if it's a good idea to have OI listed as one of "Community
> Distributions" along with others already listed  on opensolaris.org site,
> so newcomers that visits that site will know about OI.
>
> here:
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+distribution/links
>
>
> Regards
> Edward
>
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] should OI be listed at opensolaris.org site

[Edward Martinez]

Hi,

I'm thinking if it's a good idea to have OI listed as one of "Community 
Distributions" along with others already listed  on opensolaris.org 
site, so newcomers that visits that site will know about OI.


here:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+distribution/links


Regards
Edward
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

[Harry Putnam]

Mike Gerdts  writes:

> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Harry Putnam  wrote:
>> I couldn't make heads or tails of that. . sorry.
>
> Perhaps the kinder, gentler heads up message will make more sense.
>
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2008051501

Are you just saying I don't need to set MANPATH?

If so, I've posted that MANPATH is not set here.

Does the cited page have some relevance to the messy manpages I see
here with odd and control char in them? 


___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

[Volker A. Brandt]

Andrew Myers writes:
> Same message unfortunately.  It's also saying (after logging in to 
> maintenance mode):
> 
> -bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory
> 
> -bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory
> 
> -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory
Not good.  Looks like your root filesystem never got mounted properly.


Regards -- Volker
-- 

Volker A. Brandt   Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris
Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH   WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/
Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513  Schuhgröße: 46
Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

[Andrew Myers]

Same message unfortunately.  It's also saying (after logging in to maintenance 
mode):

-bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory

-bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory

-bash: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory


Sent from my iPod.

On 21/12/2010, at 11:16 PM, "Volker A. Brandt"  wrote:

>> I tried Albert's suggestion but got a message saying 
>> 
>> /usr/sbin/svcs: No such file or directory
> 
> Try "/usr/bin/svcs".  That is where svcs lives. :-)
> 
> 
> HTH -- VOlker
> -- 
> 
> Volker A. Brandt   Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris
> Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH   WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/
> Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de
> Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513  Schuhgröße: 46
> Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt
> 
> ___
> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

[Volker A. Brandt]

> I tried Albert's suggestion but got a message saying 
> 
> /usr/sbin/svcs: No such file or directory

Try "/usr/bin/svcs".  That is where svcs lives. :-)


HTH -- VOlker
-- 

Volker A. Brandt   Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris
Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH   WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/
Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513  Schuhgröße: 46
Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

I think you can install the missing fonts from:

http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

You may need cabextract to get files. Cabextract is available from the
following URL (no need to compile it; there is a Solaris binary there):

http://www.cabextract.org.uk/

 
--
Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece



  

___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss libfmevent problem with installing

[Gary Gendel]

On 12/21/10 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote:

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:13 +1100
From: Andrew Myers
To: "openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org"

Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing
oi_147
Message-ID:<094999e1-a6a2-47a7-91ee-b075b6cd8...@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;   charset=us-ascii

I tried Albert's suggestion but got a message saying

/usr/sbin/svcs: No such file or directory

I think I might have to give up on this machine (the dell e6400) and just use 
the thinkpad instead?  I'd love to get to the bottom of it but I think I'm a 
bit out of my depth...
   
I didn't have any luck with my Thinkpad T61p with the new liveCD image 
burned to a DVD.  It couldn't find my built-in keyboard or trackpad.  
Connecting a USB mouse and keyboard got me further, but it hung later on 
in the boot process.  When I upgraded to OpenIndiana via ips I had no 
issues, so I guess I'll have to wait until the latest packages are 
available.  I used the iso image to install in Virtualbox so it 
shouldn't be corrupt.

I also tried booting from the USB but couldn't get my pc to recognize it as a boot device.  When I 
"burnt" the USB in windows, windows explorer didn't show any files on it.  Is this 
"normal"?

Andrew.
   



___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

[Andrew Myers]

I tried Albert's suggestion but got a message saying 

/usr/sbin/svcs: No such file or directory

I think I might have to give up on this machine (the dell e6400) and just use 
the thinkpad instead?  I'd love to get to the bottom of it but I think I'm a 
bit out of my depth...

I also tried booting from the USB but couldn't get my pc to recognize it as a 
boot device.  When I "burnt" the USB in windows, windows explorer didn't show 
any files on it.  Is this "normal"?

Andrew. 
___
OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list
OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss