[osol-discuss] probelm with solaris

2007-02-15 Thread Core
i installed soalris 10 into laptop.. i donwloaded it from here http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp.. laptop already contains windows xp and debian sarge.. now i can't boot into these two.. the bootloader shows only solaris.. what can i do? plz help This message posted from opensolari

[osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-15 Thread Girts Zeltins
Hello, Sorry, but I am talking again about CDE. I want to know if founded CDE errors will be reported to bug database, will they be fixed? Is there any chance to see them fixed? At second I plan soon to write letter to OpenGroup and talk about faster CDE open sourcing. Best Regards, Girts

[osol-discuss] probelm with solaris

2007-02-15 Thread Core
i installed soalris 10 into laptop.. i donwloaded it from here http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp.. laptop already contains windows xp and debian sarge.. now i can't boot into these.. the bootloader shows only solaris.. what can i do? plz help This message posted from opensolaris.or

[osol-discuss] Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server/Appli

2007-02-15 Thread Scott N.
> > What do others (particularly others who have been > involved in buying a "first server" for a small > business) think about this? I will probably end up rambling but I would like to chime in since I have much experience with this area (SMB's with employees<10 ). I started to 'consult' inde

[osol-discuss] A bug from SXDE 55b.

2007-02-15 Thread Calvin Liu
Hi,there, I tried to file a bug on bug database of opensolaris.org but seems I can't find it from the database after then. So I send it again to seek for help. Thanks. I installed a fresh SXDE 55b on my AMD64 box. #uname -a "SunOS gateway 5.11 snv_55b i86pc i386 i86pc" When I boot it up for the

[osol-discuss] Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v SPARC)

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Pattison
I stupidly spent ages this evening wondering why my newly downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.1 wouldn't work, when all along I had dumped the i386 version on my Ultra 10 - doh! pkgadd happily added it to the system without any complaints - is this a general feature of the way Solaris packages work, or is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris on an Ultra 10

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Pattison
I've spotted a CMD 680 based card for £13.00 : http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=110632 Assuming this reports itself as an IDE card rather than a RAID card, would the ultra 10 boot from this, or do I need a 649-based card? Thanks Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] UPDATE: FROSUG February Meeting (2/22/2007)

2007-02-15 Thread Jim Walker
***Meeting Update*** We will be having this month's meeting at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield and a conference call number is being provided for those who can not make the meeting in person, see Meeting Details below for more information. In addition, we will be discussing Solaris Expre

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Language CD

2007-02-15 Thread Fuyuki Hasegawa
Hi, Lang CD iso image was not pushed between snv_53 and 57 due to oversize CD limitation. It has split into Lang 1 CD and Lang 2 CD from snv_58. If you can not use DVD image instead, pls wait for snv_58. As you are probably aware of, all required German locale enabler packages should have been i

[osol-discuss] Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server/Appli

2007-02-15 Thread Bill Moffitt
(Continued) So, the first question that should be asked is, "Why do these small businesses need a server?" In my limited and unscientific inquiries, I have found two answers: 1.) For a collaboration space, so we can have email, internal web, file sharing, and other collaboration services that

[osol-discuss] Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server/Appli

2007-02-15 Thread Bill Moffitt
Peter- Believe it or not, this is a question I have been pondering ever since I left Sun in 2005- how can Solaris, with its many winning attributes (open source, reliability, security, wealth of services, etc.) be turned into a viable competitor to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server? Part

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I submitted a RFE/BUG thanks. To whom against what? Please note that I did ask Sun to wait with an update a few weeks to allow me to create a source state that is closer to what we need in order to add star/libfind to ON (recent mkisofs versions also use

[osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO

2007-02-15 Thread John Brewer
I submitted a RFE/BUG thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sollved - Format first, we get to used ta windows world under MS! > > FYI: > > cdrecord -v -eject dev=1,0,0 -multi speed=1 -format > > Not needed, cdrecord autodetects the need for a format of a DVD+RW media.

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> has the default flag changed for cdrecord to write a ISO image toa DVD > >> recorder? > >> I have 1.9 gig of data to backup mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps > >> i.e:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sollved - Format first, we get to used ta windows world under MS! > FYI: > cdrecord -v -eject dev=1,0,0 -multi speed=1 -format Not needed, cdrecord autodetects the need for a format of a DVD+RW media. Mkisofs auto-formats before starting to write Jör

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drive does not seem to support TAO also the mkisofs has errors I have > not seen on the older version as well? > mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps/java /apps/bin /apps/notes > /apps/*.sh /apps/services /apps/tomcat /apps/vnc /apps/xeditor >

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> has the default flag changed for cdrecord to write a ISO image toa DVD > >> recorder? > >> I have 1.9 gig of data to backup mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps > >> i.e:

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: has the default flag changed for cdrecord to write a ISO image toa DVD recorder? I have 1.9 gig of data to backup mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps i.e: bash-3.00# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a10 (i386-pc-s

[osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta/format/fdisk

2007-02-15 Thread John Brewer
Does this tool support a function like a /mbr in old dos fdisk? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread John Brewer
The drive does not seem to support TAO also the mkisofs has errors I have not seen on the older version as well? mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps/java /apps/bin /apps/notes /apps/*.sh /apps/services /apps/tomcat /apps/vnc /apps/xeditor /var/apache/htdocs /apps/servlet.jar /apps/activat

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has the default flag changed for cdrecord to write a ISO image toa DVD > recorder? > I have 1.9 gig of data to backup mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps > i.e: > bash-3.00# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a10 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) C

[osol-discuss] Re: cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread John Brewer
Sollved - Format first, we get to used ta windows world under MS! FYI: cdrecord -v -eject dev=1,0,0 -multi speed=1 -format This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] cdrecord to a DVD ? Drive does not support TAO recording for DVD.

2007-02-15 Thread John Brewer
has the default flag changed for cdrecord to write a ISO image toa DVD recorder? I have 1.9 gig of data to backup mkisofs -r -o /export/apps.iso /apps i.e: bash-3.00# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a10 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling Warning: Usin

[osol-discuss] off the topic, but not too far

2007-02-15 Thread Noah yan
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[osol-discuss] Re: reagrding support

2007-02-15 Thread manoj kumar singh
Thanks yaar This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: reagrding support

2007-02-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Google for hcl solaris (where hcl is an abbreviation for "Hardware Compatibility List") and look around. If your dv2124tu is similar to the dv2000, you'd probably have to disable "SATA Native Support" in the BIOS, whatever that means (I suppose it means emulation of traditional parallel ATA or

[osol-discuss] reagrding support

2007-02-15 Thread manoj kumar singh
Hi Everyone, I am planing to buy a laptop of hp model having number dv2124tu. In the specification they have mentioned as 80 GB Serial ATA as the harddisk. Just i wanted to know if this above mentioned model supports Solaris or not. As my main intention to buy laptop is for solaris support. Doe

[osol-discuss] Display problem

2007-02-15 Thread Juergen Bornemann
Hi, I use SPARC snv57 on my ULTRA10 connected via VGA-Port to a DELL 17"-Flatscreen. If I start with CDE I get a brilliant Color Display with a resulution of 1280x1024 24-Bit. If i do it with Gnome, the screen shows a fine grid of white and grey pixels mixed with the whole display. The result is

[osol-discuss] Solaris Language CD

2007-02-15 Thread Juergen Bornemann
Hi, I downloaded the 6 Solaris Express CD´s snv57, burned them and installed Solaris on my SPARC Ulra10. After installing CD6 the system asked for a language CD, which I don´t have. I jumped over this option, but the system runs only in Englisch. What can I do to set up a German desktop. Thi

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3 delayed by Novell/Microsoft

2007-02-15 Thread David Lloyd
Joerg, You seem to oversee that Linux is only the kernel and that the FSF has control over many of the userland tools used in typical Linux distributions. Oh please. The FSF knows the gravy train and it's unlikely to unilaterally sever ties with the one operating system that isn't actually