Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

2007-07-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Shawn, * Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 29/06/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Doug Scott wrote: > >> Back to the Java front. I think that it would be a mistake not to > >> include the jre in the base, though the jre size on Solaris does concern > >> me. > >> > >> Do

Re: [indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] /bin/sh and bash - deep disappointment

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
enough to get the message out that this first release is a *PREVIEW*? It's a rolling work-in-progress. Rome wasn't built in a day, etc etc etc. I'm not saying that there are plans to change /bin/sh to ksh93 (I honestly don't know if there are) but that doesn't mean

Re: [indiana-discuss] Dear Ian, why was /sbin/sh not updated to ksh93?

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
ogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/why_indiana_uses_bash Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse Solaris Install Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293 ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] Dear Ian, why was /sbin/sh not updated to ksh93?

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Chris Pickett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 11/1/07, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Chris Pickett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This message is for Ian Murdock, the Indiana project leader. Please > > > restrain yourself from replying until

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview First Impressions

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=82. > > I have Ubuntu already installed. My disk is partitioned as follows. > > Partition 1 /boot for Ubuntu > Partition 2 / for Ubuntu > Partition 3 Extended Partion > Partition 4 Solaris > Partition 5 Swap fo

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview First Impressions

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Aaron Newcomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: > >* Aaron Newcomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> > >>>Aaron Newcomb wrote: > >>> > >>>>Here are my first impressions

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Review of OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1 {aka Indiana distro}

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
an > official part of GNOME and Thunderbird is not. Someone is playing > politics (sorry, but I can't think of any other reason). Space consideration. :-) Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse Solaris Install Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293 ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] A Review of OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1 {aka Indiana distro}

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Dave Miner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Yeah; I don't get why we're including thunderbird instead of > > evolution. That makes no sense to me given that Evolution is an > > official part of GNOME and Thunderbird is not. Someone is playing > > politics (sorry, but I can't think of any other r

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCD boot NWAM working on Fusion VM?

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
or with the Indiana. Any > suggestions of things to check? > > Am I even posting in the correct forum? For OpenSolaris issues, yes. For Solaris 10 issues (they are not the same), no. But that's neither here nor there. That said, perhaps the information here will help: http:

Re: [indiana-discuss] Partitions

2007-11-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
itions. This isn't likely your issue, but just in case. Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse Solaris Install Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293 ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris preview ips pkg system

2007-11-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
nto IpsPkgTool for real ease of use. I suspect you'll have more luck making this request on [EMAIL PROTECTED] where the IPS project is taking place. I know that the project has been converting SVR4 packages to IPS format so the knowledge is there. Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse Solar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Must I give up?

2007-12-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Martti Hamunen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone use e-mail with Indiana or is this a bug? Yes, I can use e-mail just fine from indiana. In looking back through you're thread, you have a name resolution problem (at the very least). How are you resolving names to ip addresses (dns, nis, n

Re: [indiana-discuss] Some questions about Indiana

2008-01-14 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Alex, * Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys! I am new man in Solaris, but I want to try it very much. I'm > debian-user now and I have some questions. 1. Can I upgrade ALL > Indiana system to current actual state (including kernel, drivers and > etc.) as I can do this in debian by "aptit

Re: [indiana-discuss] indiana roadmap

2008-01-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Josh Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know what the current status of the b79 package refresh is? or > any estimates on when it is going to happen? > > I'm looking forward to using blastwave, and previous discussions/people I > have contacted have lead me to believe that legacy p

Re: [indiana-discuss] Test image for Preview 2

2008-02-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
I installed this in VMWare Fusion 1.1.1. It worked flawlessly (other than the 3 minute pause when booting the 64 bit kernel, known vmware issue). The one issue I did notice is that the .bashrc file in my user homedir was owned by root:root with 644 permissions. Cheers, -- Glenn ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] indiana Preview 2 RC1 CD won't boot?

2008-02-08 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Kyle McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I just burned the ISO, and my Dell Optiplex GX260. > > I get loading Stage 2 . > > Then the GRUB prompt. > > What should I type to boot it? Sounds like your iso is fubar. You should see a GRUB menu, not a prompt. Cheers, -- Glenn

Re: [indiana-discuss] Emacs on Indiana

2008-02-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Praveen Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello - > > I am trying out Indiana preview 2. What would be the best way to get GNU > Emacs on Indiana? I am not sure if it is available in the standard > repository. I was trying to install the development tools so that I can > compile it myself. H

Re: [indiana-discuss] IPS Pkg info

2008-02-19 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* John Hawk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pkg info package. > > First, if I do not know what is truly in the obscure package name , than one > would assume you could use 'pkg info package name' to get information and see > what is in the package you are interested in. But wait a minute! That only

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana on VirtualBox

2008-03-04 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Darren Kenny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What are the chances of getting some of these opensource network drivers > available on the LiveCD? > > We really should try to make as much as possible work out of the box. Right. People are working on it (getting network drivers that work with virtua

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

2008-03-12 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:16 +, Calum Benson wrote: > > > We're starting to document what the default desktop configuration for > > > the Indiana 1.0 release should be,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

2008-03-12 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > &

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

2008-03-13 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Richard Elling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Good conversation. > My only input is that if it isn't in a menu, then it doesn't exist. I think I would personally disagree with that statement. Particularly (but not exclusively) in the case of a liveCD. There is *no* way to put everything a user m

Re: [indiana-discuss] Is there a firewall on by default in IN?

2008-03-13 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Kyle, * Kyle McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I used pkg to install the VNC client and server packages. That seems to > have worked. > I can run a server, and I can run a local client and connect to that server. > > But if I try to connect to the server from another machine, I get > con

Re: [indiana-discuss] Several questions about Indiana

2008-03-17 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Alfred Peng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys, > > Have installed Indiana DP2 for several days. It's pretty good as a > whole, with some questions though: > 1. Input method. The input method in Solaris Nevada is nice. I use it to > input Chinese without any problem. Do we have plan to also

Re: [indiana-discuss] DP2: unable to create zones?

2008-03-28 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Gerard, * G?rard Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello, > i've just installed Indiana DP2 on my laptop, and now i want to create a > zone. After problems ans search on the net, i found this thread: > http://cz.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=198152 > > but when i'm trying to do

Re: [indiana-discuss] Setting a static IP through nwam?

2008-04-10 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Josh, * Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I go about assigning a static ip address as well as subnet mask > to an interface using nwam? You'll want to edit /etc/nwam/llp. You'll see something like: nge0dhcp Change that to: nge0static 192.168.1.140/24 Which gives the nge0 i

Re: [indiana-discuss] IPS pkg

2008-04-20 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Jerry Rocteur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get familiar with IPS, quite annoying when what exists works so > well.. > > Anyway.. If I want to find openoffice or sudo, at the moment I do: > > pkg-get -a|egrep sudo > sudo 1.6.9p8,REV=2007.11.02 > s

Re: [indiana-discuss] No expect in Indiana?

2008-04-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Kyle McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've verified it is in NV, and I've tried all permutaitons of 'pkg > install SUNWexpect' and 'pkg search -r expect' that I could think of, > but I get nothing. > > Am I missing something? or is it just not there? It's not there. Expect didn't show u

Re: [indiana-discuss] RC2a problems nwam, terminal, graphics.

2008-04-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* A. Stockinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Congrats to the Indiana Team, nice Distro is coming. > > Installed it on a IBM Thinkpad T41p (ATI inside); > > 1. if i change Rotation under Screen Resolution from Normal to Right > >> boom X killed this should be deactivated for unsupported ATI Cards.

Re: [indiana-discuss] DNS problem in 2008.05 RC2

2008-05-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Vitaly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > I have noticed a problem with DNS in OpenSolaris 2008.05 in WMWare > Fusion virtual machine. > > Network works > > $ ifconfig -a lo0: > flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 > index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 pcn0: > flags=201004843 mtu 1500 > index 2 ine

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana and Solaris compatibility

2008-05-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sriram Natarajan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Clay Baenziger wrote: >> Hi Leal, >> Not all Solaris features are available in OpenSolaris (especially >> encumbered features). The Caiman Automated Install project[1] will address >> the lack of JmpStart in OpenSolaris. >> >> > where can

Re: [indiana-discuss] Repair system after experiment

2008-05-07 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I have generated xorg.conf (to tune touchpad, trakpoint and keyboard), > and probably i did error in xorg.conf, when system booting I see > nvidia logo, several times and then just black screen. As I understand > svc can't start xserver. In Linux, in sam

Re: [indiana-discuss] Two questions before I install OpenSolaris for "real"

2008-05-13 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Bryan Boone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK... > So now I've effectively blown away the user created from the installer. > That is, I had to do usermod -u [my uid]; chown my home (I eventually > deleted it all); then cleaned up /tmp and /var/tmp from the previous > uid. I'm left with a les

Re: [indiana-discuss] xvm packages for 2008.05

2008-05-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Miles, * Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It looks like xvm does not come built-in to Indiana 2008.05. Which > leads to the obvious questions: > > 1. is xvm compatible with 2008.05 (looking to evaluate Indiana as Dom0)? Yes. > 2. which packages need to be installed (still getting

Re: [indiana-discuss] Issues with getting OpenSolaris 2008.05 booting as dom0

2008-05-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sriram Natarajan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > I am trying to get OpenSolaris 2008.05 boot as dom0 . So, here is what > I did > > - Installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my Sun Ultra 40 > > - Installed Xen packages (followed the links as mentioned in Dileep > Kumar's blog) and updated menu

Re: [indiana-discuss] samba/cifs server?

2008-05-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Rob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I would like to try running opensolaris 2008.5 as a samba server, but > don't see SUNWsmbskr SMB Server (Kernel) SUNWsmbsr SMB Server (Root) > or SUNWsmbsu SMB Server (Usr) in the main pkg authority. You don't? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % pkg search -r SUNWsmbskr IND

Re: [indiana-discuss] samba/cifs server?

2008-05-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* MC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Yes, because it doesn't make a lot of sense on a > > liveCD. And since the > > installer writes what's on the liveCD to the hard > > disk there you go. > > But that's what's so great about having an online > > network repository. > > You don't *have* to cram eve

Re: [indiana-discuss] Issues with getting OpenSolaris 2008.05 booting as dom0

2008-05-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sriram Natarajan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Any idea on how to proceed further > > > > You need to enable the xen services: > > > > pfexec svcadm enable store > > pfexec svcadm enable xend > > pfexec svcadm enable console > > pfexec svcadm enable domains > > > > > Hi > If I am not mis

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg confusion

2008-05-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Sean Sprague wrote: > Peter! > >> Perhaps the question is why there was a file /usr/bin/labeld on your >> system at the start, because a vanilla os2008.05 install won't have it >> - it isn't on any of my os2008.05 machines. > > D'oh! Not playing with SXCE per se, but playing with BFU'ing os2008.0

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-help] How-To upgrade SDXE 79b to 2008.05 Live

2008-06-06 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Alan Coopersmith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rick Murphy wrote: > > Thanks much in advance for your time. I would like to upgrade my SDXE 79b > > to the new 2008.05 Live CD. > > There is no upgrade option in 2008.05 at this time, you'ld have > to backup your data & configuration, then do a fr

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org repository update: snv_90

2008-06-10 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Andrew V.Statsenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, friends > > Still have the update problem ( after ~12 try's ) : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pkg image-update > DOWNLOADPKGS FILES XFER (MB) > NVDAgraphics 2/558 2/

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org repository update: snv_90

2008-06-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* George Arellano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have been trying to "pkg image-update" over and over again with no success > (7 times). Each attempt...same error on different package: > > .. > Update Phase #/# Action upgrade failed for '*' (pkg:/*): > .. > .. > NameError: could not

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why VirtualBox is not in IPS? (Was: Installing VirtualBox on OpenSolaris)

2008-07-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Praveen Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Alan McClellan wrote: > > Praveen, the Getting Started Guide > > (http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/virtualbox.html) says to get > > VirtualBox from here: > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > > Thanks for your pointer. The gettin

Re: [indiana-discuss] Problem Statement for 2008.11

2008-07-29 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Dennis Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Unless this thing is a product named Indiana with support agreements > >> for Indiana then we should stop using the Indiana discuss mail list > >> and get onto the OpenSolar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Problem Statement for 2008.11

2008-07-29 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sriram Narayanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Dennis Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > &g

Re: [indiana-discuss] SUNWxvmhvm working on 2005.11 (B94)?

2008-07-29 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Paul Fisher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just noticed that pkg.opensolaris.org has packages for build 94, so > i've updated in anticipation for the "mount -F hsfs /foo/bar.iso" fix, > so that i can run a Windows domU. > > image-update went swimmingly, and other than having to add the entries

Re: [indiana-discuss] boot never completes from install CD

2008-08-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Henry Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > First time to try OpenSolaris, but I can't seem to get the install > CD to boot up. > > >From the initial screen to choose the type of boot (OS), I've tried > the 2008.05 default, or the one under it with a command line prompt, > but both of them stop at

Re: [indiana-discuss] should SUNWgnome-media-mp3 be empty?

2008-08-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Matt Ingenthron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I was trying to play an mp3 just to test audio output and found that I > can't with either totem or Rhythmbox on 2008.05, updated to snv_95. > > I assumed I was missing a dependency, though it seems this should be > OOTB functionality.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Open Sound

2008-10-03 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Robert Milkowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello Shawn, > > Thursday, October 2, 2008, 3:42:44 PM, you wrote: > > SW> Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> Hello indiana-discuss, > >> > >> What do you think about delivering OSS (http://www.opensound.com/) as > >> part of Indiana for the time being?

Re: [indiana-discuss] Open Sound

2008-10-03 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sebastien Roy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 07:00 -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > > > > There's always 2009.04. > > ... and every image update in between. Absolutely. And naturally if it does integrate in time to make the 2009.04 release it's

Re: [indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

2008-10-14 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* "Thommy M. Malmstr?m" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's terrible to hear that not all at Sun are using Solaris. I've used > SXCE on my laptop since I quit Sun and it works perfectly. Now I've > switched to the new OpenSolaris/Indiana but I'm not really convinced > that it is that much better.

Re: [indiana-discuss] need help building pidgeon from SFE on a snv_98 base

2008-10-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Gilles, > > Thanks for those details. That enabled me to successfully build pidgin. > > However my question was more targeted at finding out if the process I > was following is the correct process to build ANY tool from its spec > file. It seemed to me tha

Re: [indiana-discuss] Can't use the opensolaris live CD

2008-11-03 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Your computer does not have enough memory to run the live CD in GUI > mode. You need a minimum of 768MB memory for that. That isn't true. The stated memory requirements for OpenSolaris 2008.05 is 512M of ram. And that configuration does in fact work for 2008

Re: [indiana-discuss] How to use os200811-global.usb ?

2008-11-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* S?bastien Stormacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed we are distributing binaries like os200811-global.usb > I guess this is to be installed on USB memory stick to boot from there > Any wiki, web site with instruction on how to install the beast ? http://blogs.sun.com/clayb/e

Re: [indiana-discuss] problems with rc1b

2008-11-13 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Of course, tcsh isn't sexy like gnome-robots or avahi, so I can see why > > some people might not think of it being that important. But I can > > assure you, you'll lose more market share with this (IMO boneheaded) > > decision than you will gain ba

Re: [indiana-discuss] gdm Bug 4887 - is a fix avalable?

2008-12-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Rob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You'd have better luck asking about > > the fix in desktop-discuss > > where the engineers who work on gdm are found. > > but wouldn't it be cool if opensolaris/indiana back-ported bug fixes > like some other favorite community distributions? ( cough > http://u

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg uninstall without deps

2008-12-11 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Jon Trulson (j...@radscan.com) wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jonathan Edwards wrote: > > > > > On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>> Shawn Walker wrote: > Alexander wrote: > > Sometimes I need force uninstall single package. > > But

Re: [indiana-discuss] IPS is unable to resolve repositories after assigning static IP

2009-01-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Joseph Kotran (jkot...@atl.lmco.com) wrote: > Dear OpenSolaris Community, > > I need your help. I am unable to search IPS repositories via `pkg > search -r vino` when my IP is statically assigned. When I run this command > it returns: > > [r...@prime ~]% pkg search -r vino > Some server

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Paul Gress (pgr...@optonline.net) wrote: > Michael Schuster wrote: > > Fredrich Maney wrote: > > > > > >> I want Sun and the Solaris and OpenSolaris communities to realize that > >> they have, bar none, the best OS on the planet > >> > > > > You're preaching to the choir :-) > > > > it's

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian Utterback (brian.utterb...@sun.com) wrote: > Are you saying that a question about which should be the default is too > difficult to figure out, but deducing why the flags don't work, deciding > that what the proper path order is and then modifying either /etc/profile > or $HOME/.profile

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sebastien Roy (sebastien@sun.com) wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:28 -0800, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > > * Brian Utterback (brian.utterb...@sun.com) wrote: > > > It is simple. Do we want the default environment to be a Solaris one or a > > > GNU one? If you want

Re: [indiana-discuss] Why not a DVD?

2009-01-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Robert Bauer (s...@xy1.org) wrote: > For the bandwith problem: > OpenSolaris can also be downloaded by Bittorrent. > But I know probably many users prefer direct download? Not only that, but not everyone has cheap unlimited bandwidth. We need to lower as many barriers to entry as we can for peo

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.04 or 2009.06

2009-02-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* W. Wayne Liauh (w...@hawaiilinux.us) wrote: > > some of this is the impact we've had internally with > > resourcing which > > Vincent mentioned > > > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-anno > > unce/2009-February/002031.html > > > > ". . . be assured that we are fully commit

Re: [indiana-discuss] [OT vmware] Why express iso

2009-02-12 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Harry, * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) wrote: > I'm just barely beginning with opensolaris. I ran solaris a bit a few yrs ago > before it was called opensolaris. But have nearly forgotten whatever > little bit I may have learned. And anyway am now interested in > building up a home zfs se

Re: [indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

2009-02-24 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* W. Wayne Liauh (w...@hawaiilinux.us) wrote: > > We try to document the known issues with each build > > via the release > > notes. In many cases, some of the issues won't be > > seen from internal > > testing for whatever reason (lack of certain > > hardware, limited testing > > in other locales

Re: [indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

2009-02-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* W. Wayne Liauh (w...@hawaiilinux.us) wrote: > > If you don't want to run the risk of running into > > surprises, then don't > > run the development builds. > > Don't give me that *($&@#$^& PLEASE! Let's keep things civil, shall we. No need to shout. > Only two, or at most three, more mont

Re: [indiana-discuss] Build 107 in VirtualBox: Boot Failed

2009-02-25 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* W. Wayne Liauh (w...@hawaiilinux.us) wrote: *SNIP* > Talk is cheap, OK. Just show me the beef. And here I thought we were capable of having an intelligent discussion. It seems I was wrong. It's responses like this that really make me wonder why I bother trying to educate people with rationa

Re: [indiana-discuss] following upgrade to dev .. no working bootup

2009-03-03 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) wrote: > [ Also posted on opensolaris.general ... [probably wrong group -ed hp] > also gave me a chance to pare some of the sniveling out] > > I'm sorry to be sniveling about this but I'm having a heck of a time > finding basic troubleshooting guides. The doc

Re: [indiana-discuss] Cannot install OpenSolaris snv108 on my SDHC

2009-03-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Masafumi Ohta (masafumi.o...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello all > > I tried to install OpenSolaris 2009.6 preview snv108 on my SDHC in Eee > 901,but I couldn't install:-( > Installer said my SDHC couldn't be mounted as "rpool" and stopped on the > way to making it.. > Does Anyone have ideas? What

Re: [indiana-discuss] install osol 08.11 on asus 1000HE

2009-03-06 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Michael Hunter (michael.hun...@sun.com) wrote: > I'm trying to install 08.11 on the Asus 1000HE off a USB stick. Doing > a graphical install it appears to attempt to get into graphics mode > several times and then fail and sit at a login prompt. When trying to > do a text console install I end

Re: [indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

2009-04-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Mykola Maslov (mmas...@aval.ua) wrote: >> Thanks! >> This method works perfectly! >> >> >> $ pfexec beadm create snv_109 >> $ pfexec beadm mount snv_109 /mnt >> $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt install ent...@0.5.11,5.11-0.109 > > You mean, you were doing this on snv_110, and managed to create BE wit

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update ... ?

2009-04-17 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Matt Ingenthron (ingen...@cep.net) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Wilkinson, Alex wrote: >> I was under the impression that a "pkg image-update" would update all pkgs >> on my 2008.11 >> system i.e. in the same way "yum -y update" does. This does not seem to be >> the case. >> >> Im kinda confused as to

[indiana-discuss] Finding MAN pages

2009-05-26 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi All, I ran into some strange behaviour tonight while poking about. I'm running 2009.06 111b2 (111b, build 2). I apologize for the length. So I was looking for the javac man page. Typing man javac resulted in: glaga...@shire:~$ man javac No manual entry for javac. So, I checked to make sur

Re: [indiana-discuss] Finding MAN pages

2009-05-27 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Dave, * Dave Miner (dmi...@opensolaris.org) wrote: >> So, should I file bugs? I think so. The question is where and against >> what product/cat/subcat? >> > > Yes, distribution/opensolaris/software to get the MANPATH removed from > the /etc/skel/.profile. Ok. I filed 9186 for this. > I'd

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] No updates?

2009-05-27 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* David Abrahams (d...@boostpro.com) wrote: > > on Wed May 27 2009, Shawn Walker > wrote: > > > David Abrahams wrote: > >> on Fri May 22 2009, Shawn Walker > > wrote: > >> > >>> pfexec pkg image-update > >> > >> osol n00b here --- > >> > >> I just did a fresh 0906 install and followed these in

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] No updates?

2009-05-27 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker (swal...@opensolaris.org) wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> What does uname -a report on your system. If it's something like: >> >> SunOS shire 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris >> >> in particular the snv_111b part, then you're pre

Re: [indiana-discuss] snv_111b

2009-06-01 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Aubrey, * Aubrey Li (aubrey...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:10 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Sat, 30 May 2009 15:03:48 PDT > > Lurie wrote: > > > >> > Question abouy the snv_111b released today in > >> > opensolaris/dev: is this the long awaited 2009.06 > >> > release or

Re: [indiana-discuss] /etc/release and 64bit platform

2009-06-10 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) wrote: > I see this at /etc/release: > > OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111a X86 >Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 17 April 2009 > > Do

Re: [indiana-discuss] emacs 23

2009-07-30 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Michael Mellinger (mmellinge...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is there a pkg for emacs 23 or a quick install guide for Emacs 23 on > OpenSolaris? I downloaded the source and ran configure and, well, you > know... things are missing... Nothing exists yet. I imagine the emacs 22.x packages in 2009.06 will

Re: [indiana-discuss] emacs 23

2009-07-30 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Sebastien Roy (sebastien@sun.com) wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:35 -0400, Michael Mellinger wrote: > > I installed a bunch of developer libraries,etc from the Package > > Manager then I did a > > > > ./configure --with-gif=no; make > > > > This blog covers some of the new stuff in 2

Re: [indiana-discuss] minimal CPU for OS 2009.06?

2009-08-07 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Gilles Gravier (gilles.grav...@sun.com) wrote: > My guess is that you don't have enough RAM. You need at least 768 to run > the live CD as it can't swap and still loads full X11 and GNOME... That's not true. The liveCD is designed to run with 512M of ram. We go through great pains to keep that

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris package repository update, development build 123, x86/x64/SPARC

2009-09-22 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Frank Middleton (f.middle...@apogeect.com) wrote: > >On 09/18/09 02:23 PM, david.co...@sun.com wrote: > >>11221 beadm create core dumps on OpenSolaris 122 SPARC > >>http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11221 > >> > >>When using build 122, an attempt to create a new boot > >>environmen

Re: [indiana-discuss] Toshiba Tecra M10, TPM, and OpenSOlaris b127

2009-12-02 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Gilles Gravier (gilles.grav...@sun.com) wrote: > How did you upgrade your BIOS? The only BIOS upgrade file I found is a > Windows executable... If you have the OpenSolaris model (PPR65U): http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2288404&rpn=

Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-announce] OpenSolaris package repository update, development build 128a, x86/x64/SPARC (12 new packages)

2009-12-09 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Brian, * Brian Utterback (brian.utterb...@sun.com) wrote: > I am trying to update to the latest bits, and am getting nowhere. > > I tried doing this: > > pfexec pkg image-update --be-name snv-128 > > but it said this: > > No updates available for this image. Try: pfexec pkg refresh Then

Re: [indiana-discuss] B133 gnome-terminal wackiness

2010-02-26 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Jim, * Jim Nissen (jim.nis...@sun.com) wrote: > I just upgraded to b133, and find that gnome-terminal is almost > useless. If I open a gnome-terminal to the local system, it at > least lets me type, but output has funky line returns and offsets. > Plus, certain key combos, like ctlr-C, don't s

Re: [indiana-discuss] b134

2010-03-08 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote: > Nice, but not correct. > I just downloaded and installed opensolaris-b134 and started firefox. > And there it was: Welcome to OpenSolaris 2010.03 > Weird. This is just b134 and not the 2010.03 respin of it. > Why this page? Because you can't make all the