Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2023-06-07 Thread david allan finch
, this time it took 33hr for each disk (ie 100hr to do all three over 5 days). I have tried to update the OS before and always it fails at some point, so in the end just stayed with what worked. On 2/12/15 10:36, david allan finch wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
On 10/6/22 10:36, Marcel Telka wrote: Maybe rebuild-index would work better than rebiuld-index. :-) I did spot that before I ran it, but as my first language is not Modern English but old-fashioned-westcounty-giberish I didn't think it should complain.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
On 10/6/22 09:20, Predrag Zečević wrote: I would try: :; pfexec pkg refresh --full :; pfexec pkg rebiuld-index thanks. I just tried that, refresh gives the same error. I did this three times (refresh gives the error) and then tried the update and it gives the same error message. This is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
On 10/6/22 07:51, Predrag Zečević via openindiana-discuss wrote: The reference into VB's git seems to suggest that it was done in January? https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra/pull/921 I'm not seeing any issues with VB 6.1.38 on my OI servers, with a build from a week ago, but I'm not

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-05 Thread david allan finch
Hi, Not quite sure what has broken it but, I installed the latest version of VirtualBox 6.1.38 and updated the client extension into my OpenIndiana VM client (it was the last build 2021Oct from the ISO). Around the same time I did a pkg update to the latest changes. Since then the Shared

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-08-02 Thread david allan finch
creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote: On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI

2021-07-24 Thread David Allan Finch
Is this the same as I could not get the USB install drive to boot? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Andreas Wacknitz" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" , "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-07-07 Thread david allan finch
On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-07-07 Thread david allan finch
Hi, I have not installed openindiana on real hardware for sometime, done it lots of times via a iso on virtualbox. I copied the latest usb image with Win32DiskImager on to a usb thumbdrive. When it boot I get: list of c: ... and disk-x illumos/x86 boot Can't find disk-1:/boot/loader I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to oi_151a9

2021-06-16 Thread david allan finch
Hi, I have an old server running oi_151a9 which I can't just update to a newer OpenIndiana yet (I have a plan to replace it with a newie machine once I have a free one which will use the latest build). I am having an issue with putty/fillzilla no longer working from windows and the command

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download

2021-04-06 Thread david allan finch
On 04/06/21 02:32 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: A new release is due in about a month. Wicked. Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download

2021-04-06 Thread david allan finch
On 04/05/21 10:36 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Everybody should be aware that they are no official releases. I will keep them there for some days. Will there be a new release soon? I am thinking of building a new server. Regards ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/20/21 12:50 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: what you're describing is memory overcommit, which Solaris never did (at least not while I was at Sun). Good. BTW HP or IBM Unix was the first one I saw do this and they even had special signals, to tell you. Sorry you app had to die as we lied

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/19/21 06:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have always noticed that Solaris (and OpenIndiana) is slower to fork processes than Linux or FreeBSD.  It seems slower to enlarge the process address space as well (perhaps because it does not lie). This is because Linux lies to an app about new

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/19/21 06:40 PM, Araragi Hokuto wrote: 2) What interface are you using, video console, terminal emulator under X, or something else (through ssh, etc)? I have found that some terminal emulators are quicker than others. I normally switch to xterm when I find I have an issue with terminal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server

2020-02-05 Thread david allan finch
On 02/03/20 05:30 PM, Michal Nowak via openindiana-discuss wrote: media/minidlna was packaged recently. Let us know how it works for you. Thanks. I descovered that my server is still on oi_151a9 even though I thought I had updated it. So that started a process of me trying to update and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server

2020-02-03 Thread david allan finch
Hi, Is there a package for a DNLA server? What is the best one to build if there isn't one already done? Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install

2019-08-19 Thread david allan finch
On 08/19/19 05:50 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: ... Thanks for all that. I have a 160Gb disk so that should be good. If I can find a second one in my stack of old disk I will look at trying to set up the mirror. Currently I am missing an ATX 8pin extra 12v connector for the motherboard, so my

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install

2019-08-19 Thread david allan finch
Hi All, I am just about to build a new system: What is the realistic small disk you can use to install on? What is the recommened size assumimg all no OS stuff will be on another pool? (ie to take into account updates etc) Can you install a new system with a mirror as the boot drive? (I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard

2019-08-02 Thread david allan finch
Has anyone tried this motherboard with openindiana or have any ideas of issues etc? *Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard* https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075D7R8DL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8=1 Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-13 Thread david allan finch
On 13/02/2015 08:42, Volker A. Brandt wrote: I assume you have the 4 disks in some sort of RAID configuration. If you want to sweat it, you can pull one drive out and have it re-silver the replacement drive, repeat for the second drive, etc. If you do this I would run a scrub before pulling each

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-12 Thread david allan finch
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade? I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and rubbish

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-11-04 Thread david allan finch
On 04/11/2014 03:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: While it would be nice if Solaris software was all 64-bit, in actual practice I notice no difference in day to day use between systems with 32-bit applications and 64-bit. Only certain memory-hungry applications will significantly benefit. We