[osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Nenad Cimerman
I'd like to have virtual consoles like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use screen, but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing more than a workaround).

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 05:06 am, Wai-Sun Chia wrote: After having problems of not having an adp driver available for my 64-bit system, I swapped the Adaptec AHA-2940 for a SymbiosLogic/NCR sym85c8xx card (from Compaq). Whaddya know? Solaris-express (snv_b34) doesn't have

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: iSCSI Target implementation?

2006-03-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nigel Smith wrote: Yes, please could you check report back if any work or progress is being made on 'iSCSI target' support for Solaris. If it were possible to team-up an SCSI target with the ZFS filesystem, it would be really useful, and get lot's of new people using Solaris. A good iSCSI

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
Interesting is that at CeBIT virtually no company did show motherboards for Opteron systems and even AMD did not show Opteron info material in the public part of the fair. Given the fact that even a single Opteron machine is something rare, it seems that the prices are OK. Of course it

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-22 Thread UNIX admin
AMD 64 X2 serves the same purpose as single chip Opteron and it is much cheaper - why waste the money on it? :) Because Opteron is supposed to be faster than X2, and it can something X2 can't do -- scale beyond two CPUs. And while I can shut a blind eye to that, you can't get a 1U-compatible

[osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
I'd like to have virtual consoles like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use screen, but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing more than a workaround).

[osol-discuss] Installation of Oracle clustware 10g2 on SUN Sparc (64b SunOS 5.8)

2006-03-22 Thread Philippe Isorce
Hi, For several weeks I am trying to install Oracle Clustware 10g2 on SOlaris 8. I need to install package provided by Oracle (ORCLudlm 64-bit reentrant). This package needs Sun Cluster 3.1 only. But Solaris provides on Sun downloads only Sun Cluster 4.0 or more recently. I have installed this

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation of Oracle clustware 10g2 on SUN Sparc (64b SunOS 5.8)

2006-03-22 Thread Alexandre CHARTRE - Solaris Sustaining
Where did you find Sun Cluster 4.0? This product does not exist! The current version of Sun Cluster is 3.1, and version 3.2 is under development; but there's no 4.0! You can download the lastest version of Sun Cluster 3.1 from: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp Select the item

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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Lowe
Eric Boutilier wrote: I'd like to have virtual consoles like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use screen, but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing more

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Wai-Sun Chia wrote: On 3/22/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 05:06 am, Wai-Sun Chia wrote: No, unfortunately there isn't. I tried to get the ncrs included into 64-bit, Kudos to you for trying! :-) but it was turned down with the reason being that the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nenad Cimerman wrote: I'd like to have virtual consoles like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). There's a team at Sun working on this - they should be submitting an OpenSolaris project proposal soon to bring this out into the open. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[osol-discuss] Error in configuring CCID-1.0.0 in solaris running on sparc 9

2006-03-22 Thread tanujit medhi
Hi all The following is the error we got in confguring ccid-1.0.0 in Solaris running on sparc 9 checking for dlopen in -ldl... no checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -pthreads... no checking for the pthreads library -lpthread... no

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Rushmore
OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an alternative on x64 yet. BrandZ is a nice idea but I need to run a popular non-Unix like

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bill Rushmore wrote: OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an alternative on x64 yet. BrandZ is a nice

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:17 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Nenad Cimerman wrote: I'd like to have virtual consoles like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). There's a team at Sun working on this - they should be submitting an OpenSolaris project proposal soon to bring this out into the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bill Rushmore wrote: OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an alternative on x64 yet.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:08 -0500, Bill Rushmore wrote: OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an alternative on x64 yet.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: a windows branded zone? that would be really really cool, can it be done? is anyone working on it? I'm guessing it would be a titanic job It would be cool, and I suppose it could be done, given enough motivation. I have no idea if anyone is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: And I always wanted to have a mouse support in console, ala gpm(Linux) and moused(BSD). Kernel support is needed. It's already there in Solaris SPARC, where graphics cards have in kernel frame buffers with ioctls to draw the cursor - it's just not well known and pretty much

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:53 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: And I always wanted to have a mouse support in console, ala gpm(Linux) and moused(BSD). Kernel support is needed. It's already there in Solaris SPARC, where graphics cards have in kernel frame buffers with

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: This is a nice feature. But this is not what I wanted. I'd like to have some way to distribute cooked mouse events to text only applications, like screen, ncurses-based apps, generic console, etc. You'ld just need to put code into curses or another library to read the VUID

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:29 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: This is a nice feature. But this is not what I wanted. I'd like to have some way to distribute cooked mouse events to text only applications, like screen, ncurses-based apps, generic console, etc. You'ld just

[osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread David J. Orman
Hi, As recently suggested on the ZFS list, I'd like to move from 3/06 of SX (not CR!) to the more recent osol (b36? whatever it might be at now..) I looked at the installation pages, it looks like there is a pre-built archive I can (BFU?) install. Is it possible to simply upgrade my SX 3/06

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:51:16AM -0800, David J. Orman wrote: I looked at the installation pages, it looks like there is a pre-built archive I can (BFU?) install. Is it possible to simply upgrade my SX 3/06 release? It says only SXCR is supported, but people on IRC have said 3/06 is doable

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread David J. Orman
If you just want to have build 36 installed, yes, you can Upgrade from SX 3/06. If you want to have your own custom ON bits that you've changed, or you're planning to do this later and want to get familiar with BFU, you can use that utility with the current BFU archives available from

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-22 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/20/06 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FMA looks like it's about 100k/cpu (ERPT_MAX_ERRS * max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) And they are all preallocated? Sounds like a bug to me. Yes they are, so that we can fill error reports from any context without worrying sbout kmem allocation, pil

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
David J. Orman wrote: I'm not sure how I'd upgrade to build 36, as I don't see any SX releases using b36. Not yet - it's only been available inside Sun for a couple hours, and still has testing to go through before being released as SXCR. If you could just enlighten me as to how I can

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:36:35AM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: I'm not sure how I'd upgrade to build 36, as I don't see any SX releases using b36. Only b35 for CR of SX. Maybe it's my lack of understanding of upgrading versus BFUing. You'll have to wait for SXCR 36 to come out. According to

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi All, There are a bunch of things that I'd like to see in solaris. Although some of these my be showing my lack of knowledge of solaris though... - support for initramfs (rather than just plain ramdisks) - better support for running without swap o hence having

Re: [osol-discuss] Error in configuring CCID-1.0.0 in solaris running on sparc 9

2006-03-22 Thread Muppalla Sridhar
Hi Tanujit, Please send cc -V output thanks M.Sridhar tanujit medhi wrote On 03/22/06 09:39,: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all The following is the error we got in confguring ccid-1.0.0 in Solaris running on sparc 9 checking for dlopen in -ldl... no checking whether

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread David J. Orman
You'll have to wait for SXCR 36 to come out. According to Karyn's latest status note, it's on track for 3/31. Thanks! When most people say 'Upgrade' they mean the full upgrade process offered by the installation CD/DVD/netinstaller. There's also LiveUpgrade, another supported upgrade

[osol-discuss] VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
I've never installed/used VMware, so at the risk of this being a naive-sounding question (OTOH, maybe I'm not the only one thinking it)... Q: If SunPCI-like (easy switching to Windows and back) functionality on x86 is what you want today, you can use Windows as the host OS and Solaris as a

Re: [osol-discuss] VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote: Q: If SunPCI-like (easy switching to Windows and back) functionality on x86 is what you want today, you can use Windows as the host OS and Solaris as a guest OS, correct? So I don't understand what the downside is of doing that... Are you

Re: [osol-discuss] VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote: I've never installed/used VMware, so at the risk of this being a Nor have I. Q: If SunPCI-like (easy switching to Windows and back) functionality on x86 is what you want today, you can use Windows as the host OS and Solaris as a guest OS, correct?

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-22 Thread ken mays
Just when you think the big companies have all the toys (enterprise servers), you find companies like this making 16-cpu servers: http://www.kraftway.com/products/g-scale_6016.html (Kraftway G-Scale 6016) also the IBM x455 http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/x455.html Also the NEC

Re: [osol-discuss] VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer
I have used vmware since early v4 of workstation. Pros: easy net configs for hotels, Starbucks, and even the EVDO and 1xRTT cellular broadband goodies. The guest just sees a DHCP or static network that is stable... Multiple releases of the OS at the same time,

Re: [osol-discuss] VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Stephen Lau
And if you're ever at a conference where they have a booth, stop by. You might get a free VMWare workstation license out of it. I've gotten 2 this way from previous LinuxWorld conferences. cheers, steve Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer wrote: I have used vmware since early v4 of

[osol-discuss] Booting Solaris 10 on the Intel Macintoshes

2006-03-22 Thread Roberto J. Dohnert
I intend to purchase one of the newer Macs and I was wondering if there was any project to get Solaris to boot on the Intel Macs or if Sun has any plans to support the machines. img src=http://images.quizilla.com/S/SobeNintendo/1092885255_ilaMonster.jpg; border=0 alt=MonsterbrYou're a true

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-22 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 06:58 pm, Wai-Sun Chia wrote: Kudos to you for trying! :-) I had a couple of them myself. Boo to whomever that turned you down. Not really, it was only due to lack of resource and getting drivers done that were available for 64-bit machines that folks could buy

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-22 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:32 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: You could try using glm instead. I was involved for a while with the effort to port it from sparc. It integrated into snv_28. 5026812 Need 64bit glm driver support on x86 platform Ah, I do remember talk about this driver having

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:32 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: You could try using glm instead. I was involved for a while with the effort to port it from sparc. It integrated into snv_28. 5026812 Need 64bit glm driver support on x86 platform Ah, I do remember talk about this

[osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
Bill R., Bill W., Rich, and Stephen -- Thanks for the primer on VMWare-on-Windows-with-Solaris-guest. My take-away: For people who want to have a box they can switch between Windows and Solaris a lot on, I think I'd still recommend free VMWare on (unsupported) Windows XP as an OK option --