Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
I would be interested in learning how to package correctly too. Would save a lot of time and trouble if I didn't have to compile stuff like the R statistical program. If I recall correctly, you need a particular setup (with SunStudio?) to prepare packages for the IPS repo. Bryan On Apr 8, 2012 2:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Andrew Myers
This Wikipedia page seems to indicate that openindiana has been discontinued in favour of illumian. That's wrong, isn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nexenta_OS&useformat=desktop ___ OpenIndian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Alexander Eremin
Absolutely wrong, that's should be fixed. Thanks, Alexander On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Andrew Myers wrote: > This Wikipedia page seems to indicate that openindiana has been discontinued > in favour of illumian. > > That's wrong, isn't it? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nexenta

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Bayard Bell
Fixed. Clarified that illumian is derived from illumos and OpenIndiana community development and distinguished by continued use of Debian packaging. On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Alexander Eremin wrote: > Absolutely wrong, that's should be fixed. > Thanks, > Alexander > > On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-08 Thread Jan Owoc
I don't know how IPS actually works, but I can forward you to the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Packaging_System The first external link about the Image Packaging System for OpenSolaris should be relevant to OpenIndiana as well. You can browse through that until someone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Gregory Youngblood
I see this in the article: "In late 2011 Nexenta OS along with OpenIndiana was cancelled, the teams have now merged and are working on a replacement named Illumian" Sure looks like it says openindiana was canceled. Bayard Bell wrote: >Fixed. Clarified that illumian is derived from illumos an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Just checked, it has been updated to: "In late 2011 the Nexenta OS brand was terminated and replaced with Illumian, which is derived from community development for illumos and OpenIndiana but distinguished by continued use of Debian packaging." You might need to reload the page to see the updated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Gregory Youngblood
It was 1st time that page was loaded on my phone so doubt it was local cache. Doesn't rule out other caches. I also didn't look at edit history, could there be a minor edit scuffle with changes getting reverted? Regardless, glad it is updated. "Alex Lam S.L." wrote: >Just checked, it has been

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-08 Thread Bayard Bell
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Andrew Myers wrote: > How difficult is packaging? Is OI looking for people to help? Is it perhaps > some way I could get involved? I have some experience with rpmbuild - is > there an Solaris equivalent? Yes, we are looking for people. Start with: http://wiki

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2012-04-08 Thread Albert Lee
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Mark wrote: > On 8/04/2012 3:26 p.m., Sergei wrote: > >> Rich acm.jhu.edu> writes: >> >> >>> ...what FW modifications did they make? >>> >>> - Rich >>> >> >> >> >> They definitely made some as you can't flash Dell drive with Seagate/WD >> firmware. Or get suppor

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Urgent help needed

2012-04-08 Thread Northwoods
Just installed oindiana, unfortunately my rescuetux grub USB got corrupted and I'm left with no internet with oindiana on my sda1 partition and Linux on sda6, which oindiana do not see. I tried to edit grub menu.lst but chainloading didn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, help me please g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Linda Kateley
Yes open indiana should have it's own page. They are different things. Is there someplace that shows the name of the editor? -- Linda Kateley Global Evangelist and Community Manager (mobile) 612-807-6349 (email) linda.kate...@nexenta.com (skype) lkateley On 4/8/12 8:16 AM, "Andrew Myers"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Linda Kateley
So the oi one is right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana -- Linda Kateley Global Evangelist and Community Manager (mobile) 612-807-6349 (email) linda.kate...@nexenta.com (skype) lkateley On 4/8/12 2:07 PM, "Linda Kateley" wrote: >Yes open indiana should have it's own page. Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Urgent help needed

2012-04-08 Thread Bruno Damour
On 08/04/2012 20:58, Northwoods wrote: Just installed oindiana, unfortunately my rescuetux grub USB got corrupted and I'm left with no internet with oindiana on my sda1 partition and Linux on sda6, which oindiana do not see. I tried to edit grub menu.lst but chainloading didn't work. Maybe I'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Driggs
Anyone that signs up for a Wikipedia account is welcome to edit any page on the site. But edit and version history by author are part of the design of mediawiki.. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Urgent help needed

2012-04-08 Thread Northwoods
Thanks, got it all working Bruno Damour wrote: >On 08/04/2012 20:58, Northwoods wrote: >> Just installed oindiana, unfortunately my rescuetux grub USB got corrupted >> and I'm left with no internet with oindiana on my sda1 partition and Linux >> on sda6, which oindiana do not see. I tried to e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Bayard Bell
The edit in question came from an IP belonging to a Swedish VPN pool on February 17. OI has its own page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Linda Kateley wrote: > Yes open indiana should have it's own page. They are different things. > > Is there someplace