Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Dave Miner
On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : >> >> Hello! >> >> We have "Boot environments" >> >> On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot. > > This is just > ... > Is this done by issuing a ZFS snapshot of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About deleting past BEs

2017-09-26 Thread Dave Miner
On 09/26/17 12:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: How to tell which BEs are ok to delete. What is common practice regarding deletion of BEs? (I do know what the `N' and `R' mean and so not to delete them) In my current list of BE's (shown at end of post) I see one marked as backup-1... this is not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-09-05 Thread Dave Miner
created: p1/vb p1/vb/vm No snapshots are created at /vb/.zfs/snapshot That directory exists, but does not get snapshots. But, the usual stuff appears at /vb/vm/.zfs/snapshot frequent, hourly, daily, weekly etc updates appear there. Dave Miner <dave.mi...@oracle.com> writes: Sound

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-08-28 Thread Dave Miner
Sounds like an old bug that was fixed some time ago in Solaris, where the exclusion check for recursive snapshots isn't correct. Dave On 08/25/17 08:00 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: [Note: this message was inadvertently posted to gmane.os.illumos.general but was intended for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-19 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/19/17 09:04 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: The most interesting thing in http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc/oracle-sparc/sparc-roadmap-slide-2076743.pdf for me is "Software in Silicon". I may be wrong, but I'm under impression that Oracle integrates parts of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

2014-07-22 Thread Dave Miner
On 07/22/14 10:36, Ron Dawson wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: Things work much better if you use the GUI installer to install systems on which you want to run a GUI. On Solaris 11, pkg install solaris-desktop would get you all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk

2013-01-29 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/29/13 06:56, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-01-28 19:54, Reginald Beardsley wrote: My understanding is that it is not possible to boot from an EFI labeled disk. Has that changed? In a way it's moot as I just got the UPS tracking info for 3x2 TB disks. But the info might help someone else.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk

2013-01-28 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/26/13 09:44, Jan Owoc wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Reginald Beardsleypulask...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to install on a 3 TB HGST disk which reports 512 byte sectors using the text installer. The system is an HP N40L and is intended to be a ZFS based NFS server for a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Synchronizing Sun DHCP servers

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Miner
that Dave Miner at Oracle would know for sure if anyone does. No, we never got around to building one; I seem to recall we'd started a prototype back in the late '90's but it never got to be a priority. Dave ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Miner
beadm is missing a qualifier on mount to specify the pool name under which the named BE is located, so it mounts the first BE it finds with the name you specify. Since you had the same BE name present in your existing root pool, that gets in the way. Your workaround removed the conflict and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB - RS-232 adaptors

2011-12-27 Thread Dave Miner
I've owned the Keyspan for several years, using it for tip access to my old Netra X1. Has worked perfectly up through Solaris 11. Dave On 12/26/11 21:43, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: http://www.amazon.com/Keyspan-USA-19HS-Hi-Speed-supports-Sequence/dp/BVYJRY (Keyspan by Tripp-Lite

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distro_const package caching

2011-12-20 Thread Dave Miner
On 12/20/11 06:51, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, anyone knows a way to let distro_const cache the downloaded packages from IPS, avoiding download on every run??? The version of DC from back around 161 didn't allow this to be controlled. If you're just re-running with the same package set but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer

2011-06-06 Thread Dave Miner
reasons on IllumOS. Is OI built with it? -- Da: Dave Miner A: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Data: 2 giugno 2011 19.49.11 CEST Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer On 06/ 2/11 07:18 AM, Gabriele

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer

2011-06-02 Thread Dave Miner
On 06/ 2/11 07:18 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, don't know if this is a silly question, but I'd like to know if there is any chance to have an installer tool for bulding a customized installer of openindiana that would contain what I need by default, including additional software of mine.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Dave Miner
On 05/24/11 08:54 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:26:33AM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:21 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi All, I too don't appreciate the flamewar on here of Solaris vs Linux, sudo vs pfexec. With all due respect, I think the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] install OSOL 134/sparc fails in LDOM

2011-03-04 Thread Dave Miner
On 03/ 4/11 04:50 AM, Olaf Bohlen wrote: Hi, I want to install OSOL 134 in a LDOM on my T2000 to upgrade to OI 148. So I got the AI sparc iso from genunix.org and set up my LDOM as following: -- snip -- (448) foo:/root# ldm list -l osol NAME STATE FLAGS CONSVCPU MEMORY

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/18/11 05:01 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On 18 Jan 2011, at 18:31, Gordon Ross wrote: Dave Miner writes: [...] Perhaps refactoring of Caiman is needed, where the Live CD ships with a pkg repo, starts a pkg server, and does an install from that. Not sure how feasible this would be. Given

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-18 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/17/11 05:44 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Gabriel, On 01/17/11 10:07 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Thanks! A place to start is a place to start, and an stable server release is the most urgent one among all the other options. Great - thanks for the feedback! Some people is talking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] patchadd: will it be used

2010-12-29 Thread Dave Miner
On 12/28/10 02:39 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 12/28/10 16:47, Alan Coopersmith wrote: patchadd is already obsolete, and was removed from the OpenSolaris distro long ago, thanks for notifying me patchadd is no longer in use. i was under the impression it in some capacity was still in use,