[install-discuss] image update from 129 to 130

2010-01-13 Thread Rich Reynolds
hi all - got this on a upgrade from 129 to 130: odd1 at nuptse:~$ pfexec pkg image-update WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be updated before running image-update. Please update pkg(5) using 'pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg' and then retry the image-update. odd1 at nuptse:~$ pfe

[install-discuss] b-122 beadm confusion???

2009-09-08 Thread Rich Reynolds
Evan Layton wrote: > Pablo Le?n wrote: >> Hi odd1 >> >> Check this, my guess is that your problem might be related to this bug >> >> 10807 beadm destroy fails in build 121 >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10807 > > It does look like this is the root cause of the problem that Ric

[install-discuss] b-122 beadm confusion???

2009-09-08 Thread Rich Reynolds
Ethan Quach wrote: > > > jeanm wrote: >> Pablo Le?n wrote: >>> Hi odd1 >>> >>> Check this, my guess is that your problem might be related to this bug >>> >>> 10807 beadm destroy fails in build 121 >>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10807 >>> >>> Which is still present in b122. >

[install-discuss] b-122 beadm confusion???

2009-09-05 Thread Rich Reynolds
hi all just upgraded from b-121 to 122 and was getiing ready to rebuild a xvm BE and am confused: > odd1 at nuptse:~$ pfexec beadm create -a -d xvm-b_122 xvm > Unable to create xvm. > BE xvm already exists. Please choose a different BE name. > odd1 at nuptse:~$ beadm list > BEActive

[install-discuss] now in Solaris as well - welcome to the dependency hell !?

2009-06-07 Thread Rich Reynolds
Shawn Walker wrote: > Chris J wrote: >> I'd agree with both sides. Package boundaries and dependencies need >> to be better thought out, but administrators are not going to be happy >> with IPS if there isn't a way to turn off dependency checking. Too >> many third party publishers are going to

[install-discuss] Diskless Opensolaris clients...Your Cloud or Mine?

2009-01-26 Thread Rich Reynolds
hardware technician wrote: > That's unfortunate...If you're moving to the cloud, why not open source it? > That way, I could make my own cloud, or use sun's cloud? Like > http://eyeos.org/en. The Sun Ray doesn't meet my needs. The non-profit that > I work for has legacy hardware, and their b

[install-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.11 doesn't boot. What next to do?

2009-01-04 Thread Rich Reynolds
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Borei wrote: >> I've solved this problem in this fashion: >> >> a) Boot from FC9 and toggle the BOOT flag from /sda3 to /sda1 >> b) Reboot >> c) Now boot with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 text option (GRUB) >> d) Strangely, system maintenance got in

[install-discuss] nvidia trouble with build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Rich Reynolds
Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * J?rgen Keil (jk at tools.de) wrote: >> CC added to xwindow - discuss... >> >>> I did a live upgrade today from build 99 to build 101. It appeared to be >>> successful >>> except that the graphical login screen didn't appear. I tried both the gdm >>> and CDE >>> ogin man

[install-discuss] nvidia trouble with build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Rich Reynolds
I too had nvidia issues, I found I needed newer nvidia drivers from the nvida site... good luck, rich Gary Mills wrote: > I did a live upgrade today from build 99 to build 101. It appeared to be > successful > except that the graphical login screen didn't appear. I tried both the gdm > and

[install-discuss] snv_99

2008-10-01 Thread Rich Reynolds
dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:05:11 -0600 > Rich Reynolds wrote: > >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >>> I just installed snv_99 and all runs fine. >>> Only annoyance: all fonts are very small (8pt). >>> Returning to the former BE did not wor

[install-discuss] snv_99

2008-10-01 Thread Rich Reynolds
dick hoogendijk wrote: > I just installed snv_99 and all runs fine. > Only annoyance: all fonts are very small (8pt). > Returning to the former BE did not work. The zfs filesystems would not > mount. Does anybody know the former font setting? 10pt? 11pt? > 10pt

[install-discuss] repository/install nomenclature question

2008-09-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
quick install question... i did the following: pkg image-create -F -a opensolaris.org=http://pkg.opensolaris.org /a pkg refresh pkg install entire at 0.5.11-0.95 pkg install SUNWcsd SUNWcs pkg install redistributable ... some follow up stuff to get it to boot ... and was surprised to see SNV_98 a

[install-discuss] How to install SUNWipkg (pkg) manually?

2008-09-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
.4 -c src/crypto/crypto.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.4/src/crypto/crypto.o "src/crypto/x509.h", line 17: cannot find include file: rich Danek Duvall wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:04:22PM -0600, Rich Reynolds wrote: > >> rock/Brian - >> >> did w

[install-discuss] How to install SUNWipkg (pkg) manually?

2008-09-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
rock/Brian - did we ever get resolution to this??? Im seeing similar makefile issues with a recent hg clone... thanx, rich Brock Pytlik wrote: > I believe what you're seeing is that you haven't gotten the new > pyopenssl package yet. > I'd try make install first, which should download any mi

[install-discuss] Slicing disk before installing

2008-09-14 Thread Rich Reynolds
it certainly worked initially for me... but not supported... see http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live for a sketch of how to make the transition. I am finishing up my experiences and re-building one of my lab systems as a final walk through.. hth, rich Vincent Boisard

[install-discuss] worthy of a bug???

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Reynolds
TFS > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive > # End of LIBBE entry ===== > title opensolaris-6 > bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-6 > kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive > # End

[install-discuss] worthy of a bug???

2008-09-10 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - i have a very customized install and have been running into tons of issues as I try to image-update from b95 to b96... latest is no successful image-updates but a number of GRUB entries and this.. # beadm list Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/beadm", line 1351, in

[install-discuss] SX[CD]E to 2008.05 blog

2008-08-21 Thread Rich Reynolds
thanx all, when you get old things like this start to fade... rich > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:07:39PM -0600, Rich Reynolds wrote: > >> I saw a blog entry a while back about the steps of going from SX[CD]E to >> 2008.05 by hand. ring any bells??? I cant remember who did i

[install-discuss] SX[CD]E to 2008.05 blog

2008-08-21 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - I saw a blog entry a while back about the steps of going from SX[CD]E to 2008.05 by hand. ring any bells??? I cant remember who did it... but other than a few typos I saw it looked fairly complete... I need to start thinking about that transition for my home system... thanx, rich

[install-discuss] Proposing new project (or community?) for diskless / OS-Service / netboot

2008-02-11 Thread Rich Reynolds
Nils - I would certainly agree that diskless/swapfull clients are an important part of the OS makeup, but a project would be a better place to start. The tool enhancement of 'smdiskless' and the OS services necessary to provide diskless support are welcome. being an old Sun 3/60 administrator

[install-discuss] [osol-help] How to install Solaris without loss of existing data

2008-02-04 Thread Rich Reynolds
http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#s9.4 This message posted from opensolaris.org

[install-discuss] b78 lu issues...

2007-11-29 Thread Rich Reynolds
Pilot error... hacked my BE with poor thought to my next LU event... rich Ethan Quach wrote: > Hi Rich > > I've LU'ed my desktop to b78 and didn't see such issues. Do you have a log > of the output you can attach. > > > -ethan > > > > &g

[install-discuss] b78 lu issues...

2007-11-28 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all- I LU'ed to B78 last night, and ran out of space in 5.6GB root which on b76 was only 75% full. /var built fine, failed on the copy of the copy of the mini root ... sound familiar, or is it likely to be an issue with my install server??? thanx, rich

[install-discuss] lu experiences, questions

2007-09-06 Thread Rich Reynolds
if it helps any... i did a b62 to b71 luupgrade last night - took 6 and a half hours. i attach via vpn to a sun internal install server over a 5mbs wireless link... an external media server would sure be a nice addition to the community rich Dave Miner wrote: > Matt N wrote: >> First experie

[install-discuss] What would it take to change the default FS layout to "whole disk roo

2007-08-23 Thread Rich Reynolds
Ian Collins wrote: > UNIX admin wrote: >>> The factory installations of servers will soon (if >>> not already) be >>> coming out with the following root disk layout: >>> >>> Slice 0 15Gb / >>> Slice 1 4Gb swap >>> Slice 3 15Gb allocated for LU >>> >>> The remaining disk will be left free for

[install-discuss] Live Upgrade, SVM and grub still not playing well together

2007-07-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
On my Solaris 10 production systems I have been recommending LU'ing for some time. My operational model is starting some point/any point lucreate an initial BE, and on mirrored disks, break mirrors and lucreate ABE's for each upgrade. build a flar of my BE and stuff it someplace off system an

[install-discuss] Upgrade procedure question. (Or why can't an upgrade simply be done with a set of package adds)

2007-06-19 Thread Rich Reynolds
James Carlson wrote: > Brian Gupta writes: ... >> I am not looking so much for snazzy, I am thinking that easy is a valid >> goal. (As in no-brainer easy). > > Using a separate disk slice is no-brainer easy. this is true even a brain dead Sales Engineer like me can do a LU from b63 to b66 on my s

[install-discuss] Re: Solaris Express SPARC CD1 booting problems?

2006-09-28 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - I just tried to do this on a friend's SunBlade 150 same error. He said that he needed a firmware upgrade for the CD/DVD. HTH, rich Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> Hi Kyle, >> >> Kyle J. McDonald wrote: >>> WEll, I guess the moderator is really busy, because more re

[install-discuss] Re: Solaris Express SPARC CD1 booting problems?

2006-09-28 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - I missed the specific hardware... all I remember seeing was sun4u, but my first impression was that the OBP was looking in the wrong place for boot cdrom, like not partition 'f' ... rich Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > Kyle J. McDonald wrote: >> Well, I've emailed in 2 other r

[install-discuss] Re: Solaris Express SPARC CD1 booting problems?

2006-09-28 Thread Rich Reynolds
i have burnt lots 'o cd's using http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm. its pretty good windows explorer aware donate-ware. good luck, rich Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Kyle J. McDonald wrote: >> Sarah wrote: >> >>> Kyle J. McDonald wrote: >>> >> >>> What methods did you use?