Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Sanjay Nadkarni
On 07/10/09 15:04, Frank Ludolph wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: Calum Mackay wrote: out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than you think you need? ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what they all are is the issue? Shawn's answer cove

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Frank Ludolph
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Calum Mackay wrote: out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than you think you need? ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what they all are is the issue? Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issu

Re: [indiana-discuss] [eeepc-discuss] netbook optimized distro

2009-07-10 Thread Karl Dalen
> Subject: Re: [eeepc-discuss] [indiana-discuss] netbook optimized distro > From: masafumi.o...@gmail.com > To: k_d...@hotmail.com > CC: masafumi.o...@ctc-g.co.jp; jimg...@sun.com; > indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org; ug-t...@opensolaris.org; > eeepc-disc...@opensolaris.org > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 20

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issue is that there are some classes of things you don't want to have to go create a new BE for. For instance? I was working on building some software, noticed the new SunStudioExpress, wen

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Shawn Walker wrote: Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issue is that there are some classes of things you don't want to have to go create a new BE for. For instance? I was working on building some software, noticed the new SunStudioExpress, went to install it, and in

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Calum Mackay wrote: out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than you think you need? ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what they all are is the issue? Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issu

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Calum Mackay wrote: out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than you think you need? ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what they all are is the issue? Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issue is that there are som

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Calum Mackay
out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than you think you need? ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what they all are is the issue? cheers, c. ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@o

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
dick hoogendijk wrote: In run OpenSolaris 2009.06 and there are two upgrades in the release repo. SunStudio and (as I see just now) also one for virtualbox. I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for these updates. That is overkill imho. Can somebody explain why it's chosen to be handl

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:57:26 PDT Lurie wrote: > > I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for > > these updates. > > That is overkill imho. > > Just as a hypothetical example, since VirtualBox has kernel drivers, > imagine that an upgrade panics the kernel, if you don't have an old > BE

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Lurie
> I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for > these updates. > That is overkill imho. Just as a hypothetical example, since VirtualBox has kernel drivers, imagine that an upgrade panics the kernel, if you don't have an old BE that means if you don't know how to debug the kernel you're

Re: [indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread Jan Hnatek
dick hoogendijk wrote: In run OpenSolaris 2009.06 and there are two upgrades in the release repo. SunStudio and (as I see just now) also one for virtualbox. I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for these updates. That is overkill imho. Can somebody explain why it's chosen to be han

[indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

2009-07-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
In run OpenSolaris 2009.06 and there are two upgrades in the release repo. SunStudio and (as I see just now) also one for virtualbox. I think it is not right to create a NEW BE just for these updates. That is overkill imho. Can somebody explain why it's chosen to be handled like this? Mind you:

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems installing 0906 for dual-boot with Ubuntu

2009-07-10 Thread Jan Damborsky
Calum Mackay wrote: Calum Mackay wrote: I'm having some trouble installing 0906 for dual-boot with an already installed Ubuntu. So far, trying a few things (e.g. Linux swap), the 0906 installer hangs at 99% with "complete transfer process", stuck because of bootadm update-menu hanging. I'll tr