Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2012-03-03 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: > I've been trying to follow Gary's advice: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 14:40, Gary Gendel wrote: >> Yes.  You can use the install_openindiana script from here: >> >> http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana > > ... but belenix.or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Mosh for OI 151

2012-05-01 Thread Sriram Narayanan
You'll also need to get protocol-buffers to work. -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: > Also, you might want to use the version of GCC that you find on SFE. > > The OI one in /usr/bin/gcc is version 3.4.3, while the one in SFE is 4.6.2. > I hav

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone used a USB Ethernet Adapter with OI ?

2012-10-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi: Has anyone used a USB Ethernet Adapter ? Any tips on how to get one to work ? -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org Twitter: @sriramnrn ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
2013 at 5:38 PM, Christopher Chan < christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Sunday, May 19, 2013 06:19 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> There are devs working on it as per recent mails. >> >> > Hi Sriram, &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Also, I want to get some basic things in place before I approach the all important question "What is the purpose of the distro ?". -- Sriram On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > I'm resumed work on Belenix. My focus is to get the Continuous Integra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

2010-10-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Sunay: Nice to see you in action again. On the Belenix team, we're likely to move ahead with with RPM5 since we've decided to not go ahead with IPS, and since Debian-legal are not happy with Nexenta modifying dpkg and using it (which puts apt-get out of reach by extension). A nice to have for us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

2010-10-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
se Sun-isms, rpmbuild is able to use the existing SFE specfiles and generate usable rpms. We envision that Belenix could be part of the openindiana eco-system for desktop spec files, use illumos for the ON bits, and borrow stuff from CentOS and Fedora as and where needed. > Cheers, > Sunay >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AI server from scratch (was: Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??)

2010-10-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
+1. This is a good read. -- Sriram ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KDE 4.5.3 for OpenSolaris-based distros

2010-11-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:13 PM, L'oiseau de mer wrote: > Have there the System V Packages Version?(.pkg) > My OpenSolaris 2009.06 can't use it. These are IPS packages :) -- Sriram > > 2010/11/7 ken mays > >> The KDE4Solaris team has released KDE 4.5.3 binaries for OpenSolaris-based >> distros

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KDE 4.5.3 for OpenSolaris-based distros

2010-11-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Lou Picciano wrote: > Ken, Rich, all, > > > Still trying - foolishly? - to connect to bionicmutton on port 10103. Have > not had any luck connecting at all... > > > Is the site up at all? Has anyone had better luck? Interested in trying out > KDE on Oi. > Please

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No timeslider... what gives

2010-12-02 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Harry: You seem to be facing many problems with your current OI install, which no one else has faced so far. Is a reinstall an option for you? Alternatively, one of the Belenix team members has written a Network Installer for OI which you may want to try. This is described at moinakg.wordpress.c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about devlopment tools

2010-12-02 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Both gcc-3.3 as well as gcc-4.x are available. I use these on OI (actually illumos) for the working on the next Belenix releases. Apart from a specific linking problem for one of the shared libraries, GCC works fine on OI. -- Ram On 12/3/10, k...@javabunny.net wrote: > The ss-dev package is the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from > cron or something similar. > > Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has > resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you > s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Packaging guidelines/how-to's

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kuster wrote: >  Hi people, I'm pretty new to the mailing lists ... I'm interested in > packaging, and, naturally I have a few questions about it, here they are : > > 1) Which format/packaging system will OpenIndiana use ? (IPS, RPM5,etc ..) Belenix and OI wil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sriram Narayanan writes: ... > However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice > tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. > Actually, this evolved into the auto snapshot service which you're unab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

2010-12-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I can confirm that this is a corrupted media. I've faced similar errors, and had to create new media. OI build 147 works flawlessly on a Dell D6510 :) -- Ram On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Albert Lee wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Kostas Oikonomou > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some questions about OpenIndiana

2011-01-02 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Chris Ridd wrote: > > On 2 Jan 2011, at 10:15, Albert Lee wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard >> wrote: >>> Then I restarted the box, and I hit that bug: >>> http://www.illumos.org/issues/487 >>> >>> e.g. when I restart, ldap fail to init

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

2011-01-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
The Belenix team will be working with the OI team to ensure that we have one common code base as much as possible. We are continuing to aim for the Desktop. -- Sriram On 1/15/11, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: > Please count my vote for this also. I am using OSol as a server, but it > is much easier

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Yes, we're still working on Belenix. Our day jobs are very exciting and keep us occupied enough that we're only able to make incremental progress. This has been a very interesting six months for the Belenix team members, so there's just occasional progress. -- Sriram On 3/30/11, Christopher Chan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
The primary Belenix Desktop environment continues to be KDE. -- Sriram On 3/31/11, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Yes, we're still working on Belenix. Our day jobs are very exciting > and keep us occupied enough that we're only able to make incremental > progress. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > That was my understanding also.  I thought that only the binary/distro > roll outs were stopping. > > Can someone "in the know" comment further on this? > This has been discussed a lot last year and this year. There was a "leaked" Oracle memo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > At least one other project at opensolaris.org continues to receive > updates. This is the IPS project which I closely track. There may be > others too - I've not checked. > I just remembered that I also track the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt 4 on OpenIndiana?

2011-05-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
QT4 and KDE indeed work very well. The Belenix project uses these (built with gcc 4.x), and the KDE-Solaris team provides regular updates (built with Sun Studio) as well. -- Sriram On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > David, > > I believe that the tools all built, but I don't us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-28 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> but you won't see deb distro guys going out of their way to make >>> things familiar for rpm distro users and vice versa. >> >> You need to support both if you build Linux systems to customers. >> > > But that is not the problem of t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi everyone: I've been using openindiana as my primary desktop environment while I work on Belenix related development (illumos kernel, rpm, etc). I've not felt a single slow down ever in my use of OI. I've used both build 147 as well as 148. IPS sucks for me given the low bandwidth and the calcu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:24 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> Hi everyone: >> >> I've been using openindiana as my primary desktop environment while I >> work on Belenix related development (illumos kernel,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:13 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:24 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> Hi everyone: >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache OpenOffice.org

2011-06-29 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:18 PM, L'oiseau de mer wrote: > since oracle drop the OOo, we have a long time to only OOo 3.3 can use. > And LibreOffice is not frendly about solaris platform. > Now OOo is starting renascence in apache incubator. > Hoping anyone to join the new OOo mailing list. > http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

2011-07-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Just [oi] sounds good - it'll let us identify mails visually, though having said that, I now wonder how important that is. On Gmail on my Blackberry, I'm able to see the entire subject line, but my responses come through as top-posts :( -- Sriram On 7/13/11, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A problem with setting up a zone on oi-147

2011-07-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hey everyone: Problem: I'm unable to set up a zone on oi build 147. Constraints: 1. I'm running oi-147 (I can't move to 148 yet, since the USB and CD-ROM drive on this box are acting funny and don't let me boot). 2. Upgrading to b148 over the internet will take quite some time, since I'm on a 256

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A problem with setting up a zone on oi-147

2011-07-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > "sudo zoneadm -z rpmzone install" ? rather than: > "sudo zoneadm install -z rpmzone install" > Thanks, this didn't work either. I got the same error message. I'm going to get another computer tomorrow, and will install OI afresh on that (t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PC Speaker Beep

2011-08-03 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Select Volume Control, Preferences, check the Keyboard Beep. Now from the volume control panel, mute the keyboard beep. -- Sriram On 8/4/11, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > How do I disable the PC speaker beep whenever a program outputs \a? I'm ok > with the beep made by the sound card I just wan

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up - rpm5 + smart package manager on Belenix

2011-08-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
aptop so far, albeit in a number of clean boot environments. -- Ram -- Forwarded message -- From: Sriram Narayanan Date: Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:09 PM Subject: Re: An initial cut of the Belenix Roadmap for a four to six week duration. To: Belenix Developers , Belenix Discuss H

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 Forwarding.. Can't Open Display

2011-08-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Some things to check: 1. Did you reload sshd after you changed the config file ? 2. Did you perform an xhost + ? -- Sriram On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Serge Fonville wrote: > Hi, > > A few questions: > Have you looked at the settings in sshd_config. > What error do you get > What software

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 Forwarding.. Can't Open Display

2011-08-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Sorry, I just realized that you're performing an SSH X11 forwarding, so xhost+ won't apply. -- Sriram On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Some things to check: > 1. Did you reload sshd after you changed the config file ? > 2. Did you perform an xhos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up - rpm5 + smart package manager on Belenix

2011-08-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > And? You got a working rpm binary? Got an rpm based distro? ??? > > :-D Yes, I've got a working environment in place for the past month which has rpm5 and smart (the package manager). There are other things to have in place too. This ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Heads up - rpm5 + smart package manager on Belenix

2011-08-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2011 01:46 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Christopher Chan >>  wrote: >>> >>> And? You got a working rpm binary? Got an rpm based distro

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About moving OpenIndiana development into illumos.org

2011-09-01 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi everyone: I saw the recent IRC logs of the OI-Dev meeting, and noted with interest about collaboration between oi and illumos - especially around having a common package pool, whereby oi would package the compiled artifacts into IPS packages, while Nexenta would package into dpkg. This is inte

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using dd

2011-09-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
This is documented somewhere on the wiki, with links to the tools too! Please ensure that you validate the checksum of the image after a download. In case there are errors, you can always use rsync and update the local image file. Best of luck! :) -- Sriram On 9/11/11, mattias wrote: > how to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana b148 USB Image corrupt? (For "Windows" and Solaris)

2011-09-12 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Or use rsync On 9/13/11, Nikola M. wrote: > On 09/12/11 08:20 PM, Jonathan Leafty wrote: >> Thanks, I'll try it again. >> >> I thought maybe it was my ZFS server lol, since I was saving to a share so >> I >> downloaded to local disk. I suppose it could be this computer... which >> would be a bum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to export whole disk using iscsi ?

2011-10-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Create a zfs pool + filesystem containing just that disk, and export that file system. -- Sriram On 10/22/11, Sorin Stoiana wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to export a whole disk from openindiana using iscsi. > > This is what i tried and the message I got: > > root@stor1:~# stmfadm create-lu /dev/ds

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM again

2011-11-04 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote: > That list is not relevant. Joyent targeted their port strictly for Intel > chips with VT-x and EPT. > > Basically this means you need a Nehalem or later (Westmere, Sandy Bridge) > processor. > SandyBridge support is not complete at the m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VPN tunnel to cisco with VPNC

2011-11-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
It's been working for several years, actually. I've been using the opensolaris (and now illumos) kernels for my full time desktopOS since Dec 2008, and have required vpnc for my job which included administering our Cisco ASA 5520 devices globally as well as remote administration of our infra in ge

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VPN tunnel to cisco with VPNC

2011-11-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Ewald Ertl wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> It's been working for several years, actually. I've been using the >> opensolaris (and now illumos)  kernels for my full time desktopOS &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VPN tunnel to cisco with VPNC

2011-11-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Ewald Ertl wrote: > Hi all together, > > > > Thanks for your links. I attempted some things, with the vpnc from sfe, but > it always failed to add the routing > information. > > From your links, I downloaded the vpnc scripts: > http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi everyone: We're facing some problems with Belenix website hosting, and I'm looking for options. Does anyone know of any web site hosting based on openindiana ? -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Thanks for the inputs, everyone. The reason I'd wanted to opt for an openindiana based hosting is because it'd be ideal for an illumos based distro's website to be hosted on an illumos based distro. We've got some hosting space at v12.su from russaine39. Still, it'd be interesting to know if ther

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Should not be, since using stubs for dependencies when compiling and testing individual components has long been an accepted practice. We certainly need to adopt similar approaches in case we need to move toward continuous integration between sub components. -- Sriram On 1/8/12, Mark wrote: > T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Thanks for the insight, Richard. -- Sriram On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Richard Elling < richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Jason Lawrence wrote: > > > This might be a better question for the Illumos group, so please let me > know. > > > > I have a zvol f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Standard flag for fast shutdown

2014-02-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I have used mcollective for such signalling. This is at a higher level, though. Ram On Feb 17, 2014 2:52 PM, "Marcel Telka" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:42:03PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > > And on a similar note, are there any tricks for an OI NFS > > server to report to its clients tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: [oi-dev] OpenSolaris

2016-01-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Aurélien Larcher < aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Apostolos, > > Actually I have installed the latest editionof Hipster to test the driver > > on thesystem I complained. I will provide feedback next week. > > > > Great, thanks a lot ! > It'd also help if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: [oi-dev] OpenSolaris

2016-01-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Aurélien Larcher < > aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Apostolos, >> >> Actually I have installed the latest editionof Hipster to test the driver

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Inputs for FAQ on the Intel DRM/KMS work

2016-01-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi all: I think it'd be worthwhile putting together a write up of Martin's work on this topic. We could then send this out to the list, educate users on how to test it, and even send to some journalists such as Phoronix, et al. Here's an initial list of questions. Please feel free to edit. I'll c

[OpenIndiana-discuss] prtconf -v output of a Hetzner PX61-NVMe server

2017-06-04 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hello all: I've just installed SmartOS on a "PX61-NVMe" at Hetzner. ( https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px61nvme) The prtconf -v output is here: https://gist.github.com/sriramnrn/5d9eb06f69cab3369f9c0ea75cd3ecad I expect others may want to know more about this server model es

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] prtconf -v output of a Hetzner PX61-NVMe server

2017-06-04 Thread Sriram Narayanan
uname -a yields "SunOS mithila 5.11 joyent_20170511T001921Z i86pc i386 i86pc" On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Hello all: > > I've just installed SmartOS on a "PX61-NVMe" at Hetzner. ( > https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_ro