Re: [osol-discuss] No kernel source updates?

2005-08-25 Thread Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC)
Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mike Kupfer wrote: I agree that polling for changes is a pain. But if we can deliver new updates on a regular basis, and an announcement is posted on the web site front page, is an email announcement really necessary? If you're not reading the

[osol-discuss] Re: New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hi all, With the traffic that's being generated by the lack of recent source announcements, I think an osol-announce list would be useful. Such a list would contain the announcements people find useful, with adding to the already-overburdened osol-discuss. Comments, thoughts?' Yes

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/25/05 06:00, Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/24/05, Eric Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote: Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs (http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/i86pc/sys/machparam.h#51)? Is there simply no

Re: [osol-discuss] Niagara machines for testing?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/24/05 22:23, Felix Schulte wrote: Does Sun offer a program for universities to evaluate+test Niagara1 machines (Sun-Fire-T200)? If you're thinking of beta test then I think they already have a wide range of beta customers. If you're thinking of post revenue release then contact your

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Derek Cicero wrote: I talked to Jim G about this the other day. There was some question (I think) about how the CAB wanted to set up an announce list. I am fine with setting it up. I will ask Jim if I can go ahead. Derek [web-discuss dully cc-ed] Derek, can we also

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Derek Cicero wrote: I talked to Jim G about this the other day. There was some question (I think) about how the CAB wanted to set up an announce list. I am fine with setting it up. I will ask Jim if I can go ahead. Derek [web-discuss dully cc-ed --- sorry that should

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread patrick finch
Hi, I think that Jim G is already working this based on Simon's input As I recall: -mailing list for announcements -moderated -moderator would also post most important announcements to opensolaris.org Patrick Bob Palowoda wrote: Hi all, With the traffic that's being generated by the lack

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This wish caught my eye because several people mentioned it here. The thing is the Companion CD package maintainers did provide some build information. So to help out in this regard, I just grabbed it all and put it in a central location. What I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 08/25/05 17:19, Felix Schulte wrote: What is the reason for having the cpuids 512 apart? Just bit mask shifting? Well we already had single-core cpus for which the numbering scheme was established (depending on platform layout) and there was a need to keep the old cpuid namespace

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Felix Schulte
On 8/25/05, Gavin Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how is this related to the mythical Sun Fire-Link product? Not that mythical - you used to be able to order it and I know of one site with I think 8 Starcats all linked via this. The numbering choice likely had something to do with

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/25/05 17:34, Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/25/05, Gavin Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how is this related to the mythical Sun Fire-Link product? Not that mythical - you used to be able to order it and I know of one site with I think 8 Starcats all linked via this. The numbering

[osol-discuss] Re: Running under vmware on physical disk partitions (was Re:

2005-08-25 Thread Jürgen Keil
HOWTO: Inst In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: dandy13 has anyone else tried (or have any advice on) installing solaris on a dual-boot system, so they have winxp and opensolaris residing

Re: [osol-discuss] svc debugging

2005-08-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jörg, Hi, any idea how to debbug the problem that results in: # svcadm enable smserver inetd[1234500]: Property exec for method inetd_start of instance svc:/network/rpc/smserver :default is invalid I am trying to make SchilliX-0.2

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: svc debugging

2005-08-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Magnus Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The output of the following command: # svcprop -p inetd_exec network/rpc/smserver should return: /usr/lib/smedia/rpc.smserverd That file is in pkg SUNWvolu There are no packages on OpenSolaris... Is that correct? Can it be a typo in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: svc debugging

2005-08-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:59, Joerg Schilling wrote: Magnus Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The output of the following command: # svcprop -p inetd_exec network/rpc/smserver should return: /usr/lib/smedia/rpc.smserverd That file is in pkg SUNWvolu There are no packages

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Matty wrote: I would love to see Sun sponsor an opensolaris conference/training session for new/existing developers and users. It would be awesome to get a live view of the source from the people who wrote it. This would also be a great venue for people to meet and exchange ideas (and code).

Re: [osol-discuss] No kernel source updates?S

2005-08-25 Thread Derek Cicero
Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC) wrote: I would have thought that this would be the perfect thing to be delivered in an RSS feed. I agree, but it needn't be an or. Announcements should be available via osol-announce, opensolaris.org,

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Laura Ramsey wrote: Stay tuned Ryan! We're in the process of including OpenSolaris in just about every training vehicle we can schedule into throughout Sun Microsystems, and we're coming to a town near you in either user groups or Sun hosted seminars. How will this work? Are you thinking a

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Mike Kupfer wrote: Rich I think an osol-announce list would be useful. I think it would be useful, too. Here's my vision of what it would look like: anything that gets posted as a front-page announcement would generate mail to the announce list. There is already web site machinery for

Re: [osol-discuss] New England Calling

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Laura Ramsey wrote: Hi! Do we have community members in the New England area who would like to get together in September? We can meet at the Burlington Campus (just outside of Boston) and we could also line up a NYC meeting for Manhattan... Any interest? LKR Seems Boston and NY

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Jim Mike Kupfer wrote: Here's my vision of what it would look like: anything that gets posted as a front-page announcement would generate mail to the announce list. There is already web site machinery for posting new announcements. That code could be enhanced to post the email. Jim I like

Re: [osol-discuss] First OpenSolaris User Group Meeting in Sweden

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
[forwarding to ug-discuss ... please respond there] Kjell Högström wrote: Sun Microsystems and EurOpen.se invite you to the first OpenSolaris user group with the aim to present interesting technology, to establish a forum for regular sharing of knowledge of OpenSolaris, and to define a user

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Laura Ramsey
I like Simon's approach so we have some mechanism for making sure the announcements don't "overflow"...and a helping hand for Simon might be well advised since moderating this could conceivably grow to more than just 1 or 2 emails a day. (I'd volunteer.) For those announcements that are not

Re: [osol-discuss] New England Calling

2005-08-25 Thread Laura Ramsey
I sure hope so! I"m polling to see if we have any interest and I can "join up" with logistics, swag and a good opening act. ;) LKR Jim Grisanzio wrote: Laura Ramsey wrote: Hi! Do we have community members in the New England area who would like to get together in September?

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:37, Gavin Maltby wrote: On 08/25/05 17:34, Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/25/05, Gavin Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how is this related to the mythical Sun Fire-Link product? Not that mythical - you used to be able to order it and I know of one site with I

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Laura Ramsey wrote: I like Simon's approach so we have some mechanism for making sure the announcements don't overflow...and a helping hand for Simon might be well advised since moderating this could conceivably grow to more than just 1 or 2 emails a day. (I'd volunteer.)

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
[cc'ing ug-discuss ... please respond there] Laura Ramsey wrote: Hi Jim: Yes to all the below. The best approach will be for us to prepare seminars in a box where our user groups can grab and run with them (or not) and they would include access to swag as well as content. Yes,

Re: [osol-discuss] New England Calling

2005-08-25 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 8/25/05, Laura Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can meet at the Burlington Campus (just outside of Boston) and we could also line up a NYC meeting for Manhattan... Any interest? LKR -- i'm in NYC, so anything in New England, or this area would be great!!! --Stefan--

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 SMP question

2005-08-25 Thread Nathan E. Suehr
I know that this is a board about OpenSolaris, but if everyone doesn't mind, I have a question about Solaris 10. I've installed Solaris 10 on a machine that I've built from an MSI 694d Pro board with two P3 processors. From my amateur point of view, it appears that the OS has only detected

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 SMP question

2005-08-25 Thread Hugh McIntyre
| From my amateur point of view, it appears that the OS has only detected | one CPU. I run FreeBSD on another workstation two processor board, and | I had to compile a custom kernel to get it to pick up on both CPUs. You shouldn't need to do anything special to see multiple CPUs. Type psrinfo

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 SMP question

2005-08-25 Thread Robert Escue
Nathan E. Suehr wrote: I know that this is a board about OpenSolaris, but if everyone doesn't mind, I have a question about Solaris 10. I've installed Solaris 10 on a machine that I've built from an MSI 694d Pro board with two P3 processors. From my amateur point of view, it appears that

[osol-discuss] opensolaris users group in Raleigh(rtp) nc?

2005-08-25 Thread michael wolfe
Hello, just wondering if there any opensolaris people in the RTP nc area that would like to start an opensolaris users group. michael This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 SMP question

2005-08-25 Thread Nathan E. Suehr
Thank you all for your replies and advice. I found that the OS is in fact detecting both CPUs. I appreciate the help. - Nathan This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org