Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread Chris
On 2021-03-04 19:01, cretin1997 wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 5, 2021 12:03 AM, Chris wrote: SquashFS is only small when it's compressed on media. Who on earth use SquashFS without compression? lz4 is the most widely used algorithm. Compressible is the selling

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
With this piece of utter nonsense I am going to depart from the conversation in hopes that the actual subject can be addressed in a sensible fashion at a later time. I have other things to do and it's quite clear that there is no reason to "upgrade" from 2017.10 any time soon. There is far too

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems after updating to latest Hipster - fmadm

2021-03-05 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <88942caf-8a02-5b64-4c02-c72af7bb1...@willows7.myzen.co.uk>, russell writes: >After following John's advice, booted to single user mode, disabled >Lightdm and then entered multi-user state everything was fine. Any errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? >I ran fmadm faulty and there was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:28 AM cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, March 5, 2021 3:34 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) < > udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote: > > > On 05.03.21 07:56, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems after updating to latest Hipster - fmadm

2021-03-05 Thread russell
Hi After following John's advice, booted to single user mode, disabled Lightdm and then entered multi-user state everything was fine. I ran fmadm faulty and there was nothing recent, there was a reference to an old graphics card but not the current one. Looking in /var/adm/messages there is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nvidia problem

2021-03-05 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 03/05/21 11:48 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Finally I added a more recent version of the driver to the system but now the system fails to start because it dumps core. Probably this is related to the problem reported in this list yesterday. So I have to wait and see

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nvidia problem

2021-03-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Finally I added a more recent version of the driver to the system but now the system fails to start because it dumps core. Probably this is related to the problem reported in this list yesterday. So I have to wait and see when a functional lightdm will be available. A.S. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 5, 2021 3:34 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > On 05.03.21 07:56, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > ... > > Trust me, man. SquashFS is a superior technology ... > > > It's the superior technology ... > > From my decades of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 5, 2021 2:15 PM, Toomas Soome wrote: > > squashfs for linux is GPL, if you want it, you need to write it from scratch. > We are already using compressed filesystem images on usb/iso, so squashfs > does not add any new value. > > rgds, > toomas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

2021-03-05 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 05.03.21 07:56, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss wrote: ... Trust me, man. SquashFS is a superior technology ... > It's the superior technology ... From my decades of experience, if I read such sentences, I immediately know it's not. Superior. It's just another "something", surrounded by