By adding debug printfs to the grub source code; I
used
console_putchar(char) calls. And building a custom
bootable Solaris x86 CD
with the modified boot/grub/stage2_eltorito file.
The character printed before the gateA20(1) call in
init_bios_info()
appeared on the console, the
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd
file ?
Yes, if you want sanity checks performed on the edit.
SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands
vipw(1B)
- edit the password file
Well, perhaps this manpage has not be touched in 14
years because if its
not broke then
Do you realize what this could mean ?
It could mean that separate filesystems could be
abolished. At least once
upon a time, way way back in the Solaris 2.5.1 days I
would regularly create
a separate / and /var and /usr and certainly a
separate /opt on any server
or workstation. These
Dennis Clarke wrote:
What the heck is that /export/zfs_0 is already shared. ??
No its not.
So I setup the share manually in /etc/dfs/dfstab thus :
# vi /etc/dfs/dfstab
/etc/dfs/dfstab 1 lines, 97 characters
share -F nfs -o ro=isis,root=isis -d jumpstart
/export/zfs_0/jumpstart/s10/SXCRb35
John Levon writes:
I really wish people would just remove themselves as RE when they're not doing
anything, I find it really annoying. I bet there's a number of bugs that
actually aren't getting fixed due to old RE entries.
There's no way to tell. The standing rule I've heard is that if you
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:01, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I like to perform little experiments. Its my nature.
...
So I wondered to myself .. just how small a footprint can SXCR have?
I know that Eric Bootilier did some interesting work with the reduced core
install cluster and I was thinking of
This just in from Chhandomay--the OpenSolaris feature and BeliniX DVD
is out.. in the April edition of Linux Format.
Congrats Moinak! thanks Dennis! Thanks ERIC! Great visibility for the
OpenSolaris community!
Cheers!
LKR
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All:
Mike Saunders published a very
positive, in-depth 'how
Hey,
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:03 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project. We have two
good places to get what we need what could a new community here provide
besides usurping what has been done already? Again, I am not saying this
to be
Bill Rushmore writes:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project.
I hope we're not heading down a path where project creation can be
vetoed. The Project support on opensolaris.org should be available
for all ideas -- good, bad, and even duplicate ones. The existence of
a
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:03 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project. We have two
good places to get what we need what could a new community here provide
besides usurping what has been done already? Again, I am not saying this
to be
Dennis Clarke wrote:
There must be a way in which we can work together. Compromises made
and fences dropped. I am always trying to be a peace maker despite
all my noise and passion.
So that's a +1 from you in favor of Keith's proposal to set up a project
area/mailing list on
Dennis Clarke writes:
All of that said, I'd still love to understand how it is that someone
can grab the source for all of blastwave and rebuild it on their
own machine. Is that possible? Planned?
Have a look at : http://svn.blastwave.org/
Please read :
On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Rushmore writes:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project.
I hope we're not heading down a path where project creation can be
vetoed. The Project support on opensolaris.org should be available
for all ideas --
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:03:54PM -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project. We have two
good places to get what we need what could a new community here provide
besides usurping what has been done already? Again, I am not saying this
to be
James Dickens writes:
perhaps project approval is just too easy for Sun's pet projects.
Or any community member's pet project... The projects page says:
The process for requesting a new project requires that a community
member write a proposal to the opensolaris-discuss list and at least
perhaps project approval is just too easy for Sun's pet projects. This
project was okayed only by Sun employees, I didn't notice anyone
outside of Sun giving an okay on this project, and at least one of the
one of the two people that okayed the project had a vested interest in
it, (a
James Dickens wrote:
perhaps project approval is just too easy for Sun's pet projects.
Why should it be hard for any project? Perhaps Project Approval
is the wrong term - this process is not supposed to indicate any
stamp of approval of a proposed solution or exclusivisity - just
that there's
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, James Dickens wrote:
On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Rushmore writes:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project.
I hope we're not heading down a path where project creation can be
vetoed. The Project support on
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Rushmore writes:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project.
I hope we're not heading down a path where project creation can be
vetoed. The Project support on opensolaris.org should be available
for all ideas -- good,
Glynn Foster wrote:
Hey,
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:03 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
I see no reason why the community needs yet another project. We have two
good places to get what we need what could a new community here provide
besides usurping what has been done already? Again, I am not
Dennis Clarke wrote:
There must be a way in which we can work together. Compromises made
and fences dropped. I am always trying to be a peace maker despite
all my noise and passion.
So that's a +1 from you in favor of Keith's proposal to set up a project
I blatantly disagree with
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