Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Mac
James Dickens wrote: perhaps i'm tired... but that just comes off as LAME! how does that come off as fully functional ... this is opensource software... no need for secrets this started out as an opensource project, no hidden closed sourced secrets, guess i will be skipping this project,

[osol-discuss] Re: minimal opensolaris

2005-11-02 Thread UNIX admin
But the question is, how does one modify GRUB to boot off of a CompactFlash(TM) or a USB stick? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris:

2005-11-02 Thread Ché Kristo
James is right, look if you want to track pilot users just make them register. Seriously...creating your own little secret society isn't going to achieve anything. Maybe I am getting the wrong idea as to what you are trying to achieve with the whole password thing but anyone with but a basic

[osol-discuss] Why is Belenix-0.2 on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/announcements/

2005-11-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Could someone explain me why this URL contains an announcement for BeleniX-0.2 but does not mention the release of both SchilliX-0.2 and SchilliX-0.2.1? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: [osol-discuss] HOWTO: Installing GRUB on USB stick]

2005-11-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
This earlier email should help ... Regards, Moinak. ---BeginMessage--- Installing GRUB on USB stick tested on Solaris Express Community Release b20 I wrote this guide for installing GRUB on my USB stick. Maybe someone will find it useful. Comments or

[osol-discuss] Re: Building and booting OpenSolaris

2005-11-02 Thread Iban Nieto
Hi Joey! Thank you very much for the tip, I'm now building again opensolaris (before doing bldenv ./opensolaris.sh in my opensolaris-dir/workspace). I'm yet waiting to end task and reboot (a few hours in my 1.6GHz P4). Thank you! This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is Belenix-0.2 on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/announcements/

2005-11-02 Thread Glynn Foster
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:36 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Could someone explain me why this URL contains an announcement for BeleniX-0.2 but does not mention the release of both SchilliX-0.2 and SchilliX-0.2.1? Berlin Triangle? Glynn ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mac wrote: James Dickens wrote: perhaps i'm tired... but that just comes off as LAME! how does that come off as fully functional ... this is opensource software... no need for secrets this started out as an opensource project, no hidden closed sourced secrets,

[osol-discuss] Storage drivers availability

2005-11-02 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hi, http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ suggests that Sun storage drivers would be released in October. Which at this stage would require a time machine to achieve since we are in November already. Are there any updates to the release schedule ? Regards, Cyril

[osol-discuss] Re: Building and booting OpenSolaris

2005-11-02 Thread Iban Nieto
Re, joey!! I got the same error, man :-( I do the bldenv ./opensolaris.sh in my workspace and rebuild again. This is the mail_msg dropped in logs directory: Nightly distributed build started: Wed Nov 2 09:24:51 CET 2005 Nightly distributed build completed: Wed Nov 2 14:00:31

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:38 am, Eric Boutilier wrote: My 2 cents: I think it's too early to judge this project. In other words, I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point because they say the pilot will be short and because they apparently have put a lot of original

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building and booting OpenSolaris

2005-11-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Iban Nieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build errors (DEBUG) dmake: Warning: Don't know how to make target `snoop_igmp.c' dmake: Warning: Don't know how to make target `snoop_igmp.c' dmake: Warning: Target `install' not remade because of errors The following command caused the error:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris:

2005-11-02 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:21:04AM -0800, Ch? Kristo wrote: James is right, look if you want to track pilot users just make them register. Seriously...creating your own little secret society isn't going to achieve anything. I don't mean to pile on here, but I completely disagree. Anyone

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris:

2005-11-02 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:21 -0800, Ché Kristo wrote: James is right, look if you want to track pilot users just make them register. Seriously...creating your own little secret society isn't going to achieve anything. we explained already why we do pilot program first. the rest is just yours

[osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Ferdinand O. Tempel
For a 100% free and open project, this seems pretty closed and secretive to me. Since there's also about 2300 packages available in the repository, and more to come, it seems to me that you don't actually need or want much help either, because basically everything is already done. All you need

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
In case not seen, the news has been slashdot'd http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/11/02/0418234.shtml?tid=90tid=106 Alex Ross wrote: Nexenta OS: Debian based GNU/Solaris == This is to announce Nexenta OS: the Debian based GNU/Solaris distribution. We'll open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Debian based GNU/Solaris:

2005-11-02 Thread Stephen Lau
I'm going to have to disagree. A secret society is an exclusive club. The GNU/Solaris (I wonder if this should be GNU/OpenSolaris since I think Sun owns the trademark for Solaris - I dunno... Bonnie might know better) folks have said that they will let *anyone* join who wants to. It's a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building and booting OpenSolaris

2005-11-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Did you read the ReleaseNotes? There is a big honkin' warning in there that there is a bug in the snoop Makefile and that you need to make one change in order to build it. This will be fixed for build 26. cheers, steve Iban Nieto wrote: Re, joey!! I got the same error, man :-( I do the

Re: [osol-code] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: writing system boot message onto (test) wtmpx file

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Jakma
Hi Nikhil, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Nikhil wrote: Paul, or is there any command line tool where I can use it to update the test/pseudo wtmpx file with system boot message, noting that system boot is of message type 2 according to wtmpx/utmpx struct definition. There's 'sessreg' from Xorg, we

[osol-discuss] Re: Kernel Internals Documentation?

2005-11-02 Thread Marcel Luternauer
I suggest 2 books: Solaris Internals - Core Kernel Architecture, 2001 , Jim Mauro and Richard Mc Dougall and Solaris Systems Programming, 2005, Rich Teer Solaris Internals is no longer available as new (as far as I know). But you can order it e. g. by Amazoon as second-hand book. It is 'only'

Re: [osol-code] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: writing system boot message onto (test) wtmpx file

2005-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Paul Jakma wrote: There's 'sessreg' from Xorg, we don't ship it I think, Solaris does, OpenSolaris doesn't yet - /usr/openwin/bin/sessreg I'm only presuming it supports the UTX functions. The Solaris version uses utmpx - the current Xorg 6.8.2 release does not, but I checked our sessreg

[osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Ché Kristo
But then again comparing say the OpenSolaris release in secrecy to this is a little bit different...with OpenSolaris you were dealing with a proprietary codebase whereas Nexenta are all open source. I understand there are elements of any project that may need to be hidden, but password

[osol-discuss] Re: Opensolaris vs Solaris

2005-11-02 Thread Ché Kristo
I think this is worded to sooth existing Solaris customers who may be under the impression that Sun is going the way of Linux with the development model. Insofar as I can tell Nevada and OpenSolaris are the same tree and Solaris.next will be built from the same tree. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread James Lick
I think what most people are frustrated with is that there is a disconnect between announcing the project far and wide, but then saying the site needs to be locked down because it's not quite ready for everyone. If it's not ready, don't go announcing it everywhere. If it is ready enough for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Erast Benson
Now we put some more information on the authentication dialog. We are sorry we didn't do that at the first place... well. We were too busy with other issues. So, next time you click on http://www.gnusolaris.org you will see Welcome to GNU/Solaris pilot program! banner and information on how to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what most people are frustrated with is that there is a disconnect between announcing the project far and wide, but then saying the site needs to be locked down because it's not quite ready for everyone. If it's not ready, don't go announcing it