[OpenIndiana-discuss] basic send/recv: how to mk mountpoint where you want it

2020-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Haven't used send/recv to speak of but experimenting today I wonder if there is some tricky way to set mountpoint of the recvd filesystem in some better way that what I've been getting: Here I see seems sort of wrong: (First let me establish some basics) , | On recv host: | | zfs list -r p0:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] With full update Can I run latest VBox

2020-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me if I do a full update from my current OI, will I be able to run the latest VBox? ... I mean the latest at Oracle vbox site ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Concerning replacing mirrored boot disks

2020-05-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup Running a couple months old OI update I use simple mirrored pairs for yrs now. This is not a commercial operation or even a very serious homeboy HOST. I had a disk failure some time ago that is one of the mirrored boot disks. I have yet to fix that. They were a pair of 700 GB disks I had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic send/recv: how to mk mountpoint where you want it

2020-10-20 Thread Harry Putnam
"Damien O'Shea" writes: > zfs send -p will send the filesystem properties as well. Such as > mountpoint. Haa completely overlooked that in my man page reading. ... Nice ... Thank you sir ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] where is gcc

2020-10-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss writes: > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] where is gcc, Harry Putnam said (at...: > >> Running latest oi-hipster in vbox vm >> >> I want a working gcc, I see only gcc-3-runtime and gcc-7-runtime. > > Do a 'pkg update' fi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs

2020-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
"Coalson, Timothy Scott (S)" writes: > > From: Harry Putnam > Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020 4:29 PM > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs > > ... > In my case, running ubun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs

2020-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: > Hi Harry! > > >> > Both will work. Any dataset snapshot can be sent/received separately, >> > if you want. But you can also use a recursive send where the dataset >> > itself and all "child datasets" will be included in the stream. Check >> > out the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs

2020-10-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I thought I would know the answer to this question eventually from just using zfs. I have not gotten any closer, so, seeking advice from experienced zfs users. What is the better way to arrange zfs fs: I have data and ongoing work in three directories. Directories that most often appear like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs

2020-10-25 Thread Harry Putnam
v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: [...] >> So should I create the zfs fs by >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local p0/local >> zfs create ... p0/local/src >> zfs create ... p0/local/src/git >> >> (the -p option may be useful above.. I just want it >> to be clear what is being done)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Layout of zfs fs

2020-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: >> >> So should I create the zfs fs by >> >> zfs create ... -o mountpoint=/usr/local p0/local >> >> zfs create ... p0/local/src >> >> zfs create ... p0/local/src/git >>

[OpenIndiana-discuss] silence Nuasance keyboard bell

2020-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Very recent updated hipster... but problem has been there forever. When at the keyboard certain moves like going up to and try to pass backward limit of typing or forward I hear a quite load and very annoying buzzer Not sure I'm describing this very well but anyone who hears that darn buzzer or

[OpenIndiana-discuss] silence Nuasance keyboard bell

2020-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Very recent updated hipster... but problem has been there forever. When at the keyboard certain moves like going up to and try to pass backward limit of typing or forward I hear a quite load and very annoying buzzer Not sure I'm describing this very well but anyone who hears that darn buzzer or

[OpenIndiana-discuss] set which fs do/don't get snaps besides timeslider

2020-11-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone tell me how I can avoid snapshotting on some fs. I find using the timeslider to be sort of a non-starter. It has a scroll bar unlike any found in the rest of the world. Normally a scroll bar will consist of a small short bar (handle) setting in a longer track. Pulling the `handle'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] set which fs do/don't get snaps besides timeslider

2020-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Stephan Althaus writes: > Hello! > > Yes, the gui is not very usable. > > You may starting having a look at the GTK definition of the window > > https://github.com/OpenIndiana/time-slider/blob/master/usr/share/time-slider/ui/time-slider-setup.ui > > some with GTK background might find something

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to arrange for auto snapshots only once per month

2020-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I want to have snaopshots only once a month on certain filesystems. I'm not finding enough information on time-slider to tell if it can be done there, but the Solaris time-slider docs indicate it could be done. The location it tells you to make such a setting does not exist on hipster. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version

2020-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Carl Brewer writes: > It's not, the problems are with the VirtualBox GUI, what happens > inside the (I hate trying to work out how to describe GUI parts!) OS > screen, is a symptom. > > I run a bunch of virtual servers in VirtualBox, the current GUI is > misbehaving as Harry describes, but it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool/ROOT where mounted?

2020-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: > Hi Harry! > > >> If you want to create a copy of your entire OS on a remote machine by >> means of send/recv do you need to send rpool/ROOT? > > Typically, you will need to send the entire rpool. That's what the > "zfs send -R" command is for. It

[OpenIndiana-discuss] basic send/recv coaching please

2020-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry this is so basic. I've done a bit send/recv but never like below: I want the root filesystem saved on remote host (which I have yet to do) I'm trying it like this [NOTE: both hosts running latest oi/hipster updated 11/29 sending hostname 2x: , | NAME

[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool/ROOT where mounted?

2020-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
If you want to create a copy of your entire OS on a remote machine by means of send/recv do you need to send rpool/ROOT? on my system the mountpoint says only `legacy' rpool/ROOT 82.0G 530G23K legacy And the Solaris Docs say that legacy means it has an entry in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] set which fs do/don't get snaps besides timeslider

2020-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
"Coalson, Timothy Scott (S)" writes: > You can tell time-slider to ignore a filesystem by: > > zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false > > There are global settings for a custom time-slider schedule (number of > each type of snapshot to keep, service auto-snapshot:, > property "zfs/keep"), but I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Determine path to usb stick frm `rmformt -l' output

2020-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: [...] > > The usbcopy command may not work anymore. Here's what I usually do, > starting with the usb image: [...] Snipped a very excellent detailed walk thru. I will try that but once John G made me see I'd missed some very important para in handbook, since I have a win10

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Determine path to usb stick frm `rmformt -l' output

2020-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I have the output of rmformat -l to guide me but I'm not sure what is the correct path. There are two shown. In order to write to USB I need to be exact with path. Tail of rmformat -l output: [...] 3. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0p0 Physical Node:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to determine what to do with a copied member of zfs fs

2020-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
[Sorry to ramble a bit, trying to get across what I've run into. Not sure what is important to include to allow anyone to help] While attempting to clean up some kind of error involving one zfs fs p0/vb2/vm2/d0 Do is a running Vbox vm that I don't want to harm. I copied all of vm2 to vm2X

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version

2020-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmueller writes: > Hey Harry > > That sounds like a version mismatch between guest tools and Host > Virtualbox. Can you make sure the guest has only the pkg provided > virtualbox extensions installed? And not the ones via ISO. First let me fill in another bit of info I forgot to include.

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

2020-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmueller writes: > Hi Harry > > Virtualbox from Oracle site is not compatible anymore with illumos and > is not supported. > > Please use the packaged version install-able via pkg. Espen Martinsen writes: > Use Vbox from hipster repos > > #pkg install virtualbox It appears to only

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

2020-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
IFO system/virtualbox 6.1.16-2020.0.1.1 i-- [...] Espen Martinsen writes: > On 11/19/20 3:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Installed it on a oi VM running our latest ISO offering. > > Ooops, I'm not sure if it's intendion is to run

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version

2020-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: running latest updates of OI/hipster on; HDW: HP wx8600 2x XEON 5600 psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 4 virtual processors (0 2 4 6) x86 (GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock MHz) Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz uname -a SunOS 2x 5.11

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to downgrade virtualbox from latest version

2020-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: running latest updates of OI/hipster on; HDW: HP wx8600 2x XEON 5600 psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 4 virtual processors (0 2 4 6) x86 (GenuineIntel 1067A family 6 model 23 step 10 clock MHz) Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz uname -a SunOS 2x 5.11

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to determine what to do with a copied member of zfs fs

2020-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
James via openindiana-discuss writes: > On 14/11/2020 16:03, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> While attempting to clean up some kind of error involving one zfs fs >> >> p0/vb2/vm2/d0 > ... >> More importantly is there a way to determine what is going on with >>

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

2020-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Attempting to install an VBox pkg from the Oracle site I run into this output: pkgadd -d ./*.pkg [...] Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 6.1.14,REV=2020.09.04.10.03.140239 Oracle Corporation ## Executing checkinstall script. Checking package dependencies... ## Missing packages: ## IPS :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to setup with 4 matched disks

2020-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
James via openindiana-discuss writes: > On 01/11/2020 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've been coasting along for several years only using matched and >> mirrored pairs of disks. >> >> Now I would like to do some experimenting with some of the other >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to setup with 4 matched disks

2020-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Friesenhahn writes: [...] > With only a small number of disks (and to aid human comprehension when > something goes wrong) I suggest using mirrors with a regular pool > 'scrub' schedule. With more disks raidz2 starts making sense but > raidz2 is less flexible. Thanks to all posters, lots

[OpenIndiana-discuss] what to setup with 4 matched disks

2020-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Probably a poor day to post about this, but Sundays are often the only days I have with enough time to try some experimentation. Hopefully some of you will be reading and be able to do some coaching. --- --- ---=--- --- --- I've been coasting along for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] silence Nuasance keyboard bell

2020-10-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Andreas Wacknitz writes: > Am 21.10.20 um 19:57 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> Very recent updated hipster... but problem has been there forever. >> >> When at the keyboard certain moves like going up to and try to pass >> backward limit of typing or forward I hear a quit

[OpenIndiana-discuss] where is gcc

2020-10-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Running latest oi-hipster in vbox vm I want a working gcc, I see only gcc-3-runtime and gcc-7-runtime. Installed Pkg contents tells me they don't contain the gcc compiler. So attempting to install several different ones of the gcc compilers found in `pkg list -a' output but I'm told none so far

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss writes: [...] >> So, I'm hoping someone here will have sage advice about booting from >> network somehow. >> >> Is there a way to circumvent both usb and DVD boots and do something >> over the network to get oi installed? >> > > What exactly is happening?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of those yrs running openindiana OS. A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks. Once I did that I have not been able to use any of the oi installation media I've made up. Both usb stick and DVD fails to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone here tried sanoid snapshotting and backup software?

2021-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I wondered if anyone has tried or uses `sanoid' for snap-shotting, or is it just a waste of time when we have the time slider? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss writes: >> On 3. Feb 2021, at 23:11, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss >> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> So, I'm hoping someone here will have sage advice about bootin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Carl Brewer writes: > None that I can do to help, but can you continue to document what you do? I will try but make no bones about only being about half literate. English is not my first language... I learned to speak in Wyoming hill-billy for the first 10 or so years. hehe. > I experienced

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

2021-02-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:06:12PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of >> those yrs running openindiana OS. >> >> A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks. &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Screen locking with XScreenSaver disabled

2024-01-17 Thread Harry Putnam
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, at 12:35, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 1/14/24 15:17, hput wrote: >> Till Wegmueller writes: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Check all other system settings if you have another Screensaver. Mate >>> has it's own AFAIK. >> >> The thing is, as you see in the small image of what I see

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