Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris support of USB Ethernet Adapters for external USB ports

2005-11-18 Thread Casper . Dik
Ethernet adapters are availalbe that plug directly into an external USB port, just like a camara o r other consumer product. Does Solaris 10 or Opensolaris support such cards? The nic on the integrated chipset (nforce4) of my system is not suppport by either. I thought nforce 4 was

Re: [osol-discuss] how to crypt a folder?

2005-11-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 19:12, alessioc wrote: Is there a way to crypt/decrypt a folder by using the opensolaris crypto service? (i'm talking about some crypt/decrypt system based on a symmetrical key provided by the user at mount time) Not at this time. We currently have an encrypt(1)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Scott N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you explain your problems with the X location? I'll probably do something similar from your view as I don't know what's important for you... I was frustrated that I went to /usr to try and use /user/X11/xconfigure and noticed that Nexenta had

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Schanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of this is going to happen regardless, mostly because of the clash of egos. Whether GNU/Linux or the BSD OS's are more fragmented is questionable--there is just one Linux kernel source, but is Free, Open, and NetBSD all have their own sources. If

Re: [osol-discuss] how to crypt a folder?

2005-11-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently have an encrypt(1) command that works on individual files. We have encryption support for lofi(7d) - the block driver - working and hope to release it to OpenSolaris site soon. This sounds really good. Do you have an idea when this will

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris support of USB Ethernet Adapters for external USB ports

2005-11-18 Thread David Schanen
On 11/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought nforce 4 was supported? nge nge (7d)- Nvidia ck8-04 Gigabit Ethernet driver There was an issue where an earlier Solaris Express installer wouldn't load the driver for initial installs, but I thought that

Re: [osol-discuss] SuperMicro MV8 (8-port SATA PCI-X) support? Great for ZFS

2005-11-18 Thread Bart Smaalders
Jeb Campbell wrote: Anyone working on a driver for the SuperMicro MV8? No onboard raid (so dirt cheap), but as ZFS wants to be as close to metal as possible this could be a great card with a driver. This is indeed a great card - cheap _and_ fast. It will drive all the connected disks at

Re: [osol-discuss] Why not to use pkgsrc package system ?

2005-11-18 Thread Eric Boutilier
Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi An option that I believe that it has not been considered in the news distributions based on Opensolaris is to use the system of packages of called NetBSD pkgsrc. http://www.pkgsrc.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platforms.html#solaris Pkgsrc support

[osol-discuss] OKay .. I guess this is the way you want it ..

2005-11-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
For Casper :-) ─ Automatically Layout File Systems On this screen you must select all the file systems you want auto-layout to create, or accept the default file systems shown. NOTE: For small disks, it may be necessary for auto-layout to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris support of USB Ethernet Adapters for

2005-11-18 Thread David Schanen
On 11/18/05, mx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the nforce4 chip set use a Marvel NIC which is not supported. I filed a bug on this and was informed that it does not work. No, the ethernet provided by the nForce4 chipset is made by nVidia and works with the driver Casper posted. Your motherboard

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade b26-b27a

2005-11-18 Thread Ian Collins
Robert Dickel wrote: Has anyone been able to do it - I've tried on two machines and during the upgrade checking it says its unable to perform the upgrade because it needs to repartition my disks (?) - one machine only has a 30Gb / partition, the other I think has an 8Gb / and a 20 Gb slice.

[osol-discuss] Urgent help requested...system boots with errors after BFUing to 27

2005-11-18 Thread Will Hayworth
I usually wouldn't put urgent up there, but this is an [b]URGENT[/b] plea for help; my laptop has [b]several, incredibly important, project files[/b] on it in OpenOffice 2.0 format. Stupidly, I BFUed from 20051103, which worked wonderfully, to 20051116. It gave no sign of errors while BFUing;

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade b26-b27a

2005-11-18 Thread John Weekley
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 18:51 -0800, Robert Dickel wrote: Has anyone been able to do it - I've tried on two machines and during the upgrade checking it says its unable to perform the upgrade because it needs to repartition my disks (?) - one machine only has a 30Gb / partition, the other I

Re: [osol-discuss] Urgent help requested...system boots with errors after BFUing to 27

2005-11-18 Thread Ian Collins
Will Hayworth wrote: I usually wouldn't put urgent up there, but this is an [b]URGENT[/b] plea for help; my laptop has [b]several, incredibly important, project files[/b] on it in OpenOffice 2.0 format. Stupidly, I BFUed from 20051103, which worked wonderfully, to 20051116. It gave no sign

[osol-discuss] Re: Urgent help requested...system boots witherrors after BFUing to 27

2005-11-18 Thread Will Hayworth
Again, forgive my ignorance, but how would I go about doing that in a situation like this? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Urgent help requested...system boots witherrors after BFUing to 27

2005-11-18 Thread Ian Collins
Will Hayworth wrote: Again, forgive my ignorance, but how would I go about doing that in a situation like this? Not having used failsave much... In a normal situation, I'd run format to get the device name of you drive, enter pcr pcr to print the partition table. Exit format and mount