Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: mounting a usb disk

2022-12-15 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
FAT32 always works for me, the others not so much lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 10:40:43 AM EDT, Stephan Althaus wrote: On 9/11/22 12:34, Marc Lobelle wrote: > oups, this is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] funky update problem

2022-10-06 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
I just tried to upgrade OI and I get this. Ideas? root@indianajones:~# pkg update -vpkg: 0/1 catalogs successfully updated:   1: Invalid contentpath /var/pkg/cache/incoming-1375/update.20221006T06Z.C: CatalogPart failed validation: The signature data for the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

2021-04-27 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
When I run a VBox NAT VM I want to ssh into -- the only reliable config I have found is to avoid 127.0.0.1 and instead use the actual IP of the box (such as 10.1.100.221 port or such). Not sure why this is, but that is what I have found to work. lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 6.1.18 nested vms

2021-04-27 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
From what I recall, nested virtualization might require BIOS changes (at least on DELL). Good luck! lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Thursday, April 1, 2021, 07:16:20 AM EDT, russell wrote: Hi For what I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Resizing?

2021-03-01 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
I don't need to do this, so this can be an academic discussion: I can resize a drive in a hypervisor, but can I resize a zpool afterwards or are we talking exporting, creating a new pool and importing on it? Thank you for all the excellent info you provide lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone running OI on VPS?

2021-03-01 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
I remove BEs as soon as it's clear they work. lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Thursday, February 25, 2021, 11:12:08 AM EST, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: > On 25. Feb 2021, at 17:47,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS problem

2021-02-22 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
I usually use 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 for dns. There are IPv6 options of those for you who need them lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Saturday, February 20, 2021, 10:29:00 AM EST, Reginald Beardsley via

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions

2020-12-28 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
AS a long time Linux user, I would say you should always use the long term support versions (LTS) of Ubuntu. That means 16.04/18.04/20.04. lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Saturday, December 5, 2020, 01:30:04 PM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do about not having a compiler suitable to install VBox

2020-12-28 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
Look for "nested virtualization" Never done it on illumos but vanilla virtualbox supports it lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 06:44:54 AM EST, Harry Putnam wrote: Espen Martinsen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Failed (?) boot/set-up on DELL Optiplex 780. Any solution...?

2019-12-11 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
The only other thing I would suggest is make sure the 780 has the latest BIOS. I had a problematic 980 which behaved much better after upgrading the BIOS. lfe...@yahoo.com, Norfolk VA, 23503 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Tuesday, November 26, 2019,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: support for exFAT in openindiana

2019-12-11 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
For those using this solution:>  To have the cache flushed on shutting down, execute as an >  Administrator (once for all) : >  powercfg /h off Be advised that Windows likely resets powercfg after update. I perform that operation following every windows update. The cache is also flushed when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update is failing

2019-09-04 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
ain. Hope this helps Greetings Till On 04.09.19 22:05, L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I am also getting this error ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update is failing

2019-09-04 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
I am also getting this error lfe...@yahoo.com, Norfolk VA, 23503 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 04:25:51 AM EDT, Christian Meier wrote: Hello I try to update my oi-hipster installation but it failes with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] screen utility not working

2019-08-19 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
(osnet-incorporation@0.5.11-2019.0.0.18919:20190815T063932Z or later). С уважением, Александр Пыхалов, программист отдела телекоммуникационной инфраструктуры управления информационно-коммуникационной инфраструктуры ЮФУ От: L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] screen utility not working

2019-08-14 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
s well. Without parameters it now runs  once and exits. On 2019-08-13 12:38 PM, L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss wrote: > Hey all, > I saw an email about this but now I cannot find it and I don't see it in the > mailman archive either. I verified that screen works

[OpenIndiana-discuss] screen utility not working

2019-08-13 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
Hey all, I saw an email about this but now I cannot find it and I don't see it in the mailman archive either. I verified that screen works properly before update and stops working with the clear screen error after update for me also. I saved one VM off as a clone before updating. I got a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions

2019-07-18 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
Re: uninstalling -- Thank you. I've been using Solaris and the pkg commands since 1990 (US Navy computer tech). lfe...@yahoo.com, Norfolk VA, 23503 Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 02:15:20 PM EDT, Tim Mooney wrote: In

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox and guest additions

2019-07-02 Thread L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss
So as I read this, I recalled installing GA using pkgadd. So I looked in my VM and I find a /usr/sbin/pkgadd command. root@oi:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/pkgadd-r-xr-xr-x   2 root     sys       137476 Jun 26 23:59 /usr/sbin/pkgadd root@oi:~# pkg search -l /usr/sbin/pkgaddINDEX      ACTION VALUE