[osol-discuss] Re: probelm with solaris

2007-02-16 Thread UNIX admin
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 You can read the GRUB

[osol-discuss] Printable Many Page Solaris Manual Project - Open for Business

2007-02-16 Thread David Lloyd
PRINTABLE MANY PAGE SOLARIS MANUAL PROJECT - OPEN FOR BUSINESS http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pmpsm/ 16 February 2007 On the 16th of January, 2007, David Lloyd proposed an OpenSolaris project to develop and create a number of printable many page Solaris manuals. The purpose of these

[osol-discuss] DNS / resolver issue

2007-02-16 Thread Tony Albers
Hi all, Installed Solaris Express Developer Edition 2/07 yesterday. It was very keen on being a dhcp-client, so I did a sys-unconfig. After the reboot I configured the network normally, static IP, no Ipv6, no name service, specified the router and all went well. I have moved /etc/nsswitch.dns to

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

2007-02-16 Thread UNIX admin
pkginfo -x -d /blabla/spool/pkg BLABLAfirefox-package If there is no ARCH in the pkginfo's output, then it's the fault of the packager. If there is ARCH in the pkginfo's output, and the ARCH is not sparc, then the old rule applies: he who can read is has an advantage. This message posted

[osol-discuss] Re: DNS / resolver issue

2007-02-16 Thread Tony Albers
A reboot solved this. If anyone has any ideas how this could happen. please post. /tony This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-02-16 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, John Brewer wrote: Does this tool support a function like a /mbr in old dos fdisk? fdisk(1M): DESCRIPTION This command is used to do the following: [ ... ] o Install the master boot record that is put in the first sector of the fixed disk on x86

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

2007-02-16 Thread Ghee Teo
Andrew Pattison wrote: 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

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

2007-02-16 Thread Scott N.
Thanks UX-admin, I have always respected your opinion around here. I think your idea is great and I would be behind you 100%. BUT... Again, the barriers to entry are huge. Maybe you have a market for your target as I am way out of touch with enterprise needs and such (cater to really small

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-16 Thread James Carlson
Girts Zeltins writes: 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? CDE is still a supported part of the system. At second I plan soon to write letter to OpenGroup

Re: [osol-discuss] DNS / resolver issue

2007-02-16 Thread James Carlson
Tony Albers writes: I have moved /etc/nsswitch.dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf 'mv' or 'cp'? It should have been 'cp'. I have made entries in /etc/resolv.conf I have checked /etc/defaultrouter What does that mean? Did you check netstat -nr to see what the kernel was actually using, or just the

Re: [osol-discuss] DNS / resolver issue

2007-02-16 Thread James Carlson
James Carlson writes: It sounds like a problem with nsswitch.conf -- if nslookup works but regular commands (particularly 'getent hosts') do not work, then the name service switch isn't using DNS. Sorry about following up my own message, but ... The key insight here is that, despite its

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

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Bochnig
Subject: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris on an Ultra 10 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Display problem

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: Log in text mode and run command kdmconfig and then choose XSun and then configure your Video settings. Ultra 10 is a SPARC, which only has Xsun in nv_57, and has no kdmconfig. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: 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? If they are serious bugs, then they may be fixed. Low priority (P4 P5) bugs aren't being worked on

[osol-discuss] Re: Request for Community Comment: An

2007-02-16 Thread UNIX admin
ALOM would be wonderful, but probably out-of-price range, remember its another CPU/ethernet/... ALOM is a must, especially for a black box appliance. Otherwise, the thing would only be good as a workstation or a thin client. This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2007-02-16 Thread UNIX admin
Again, the barriers to entry are huge. Maybe you have a market for your target as I am way out of touch with enterprise needs and such (cater to really small biz). But for the SBS audience, to quote a cliche, you (or anyone who tries to do this really as many have already) is fighting an

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

2007-02-16 Thread UNIX admin
NewSUNW and opensolaris give you so much more options now. SPARC is not dead on the desktop! Only if you're keen on shopping on ebay for old, tired Ultras and the like. Sun has nothing in the UltraSPARC arena that'd be even remotely able to compete in price/performance with your regular

[osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Frank Mash
Hi all, I am trying to compile bitkeeper free client on Solaris 10. However I keep getting the following errors: bash-3.00# CC=cc bash-3.00# export CC bash-3.00# make cc -O2 -Wall -Wno-parenthesesbkf.c -o bkf cc: Warning: option -2 passed to ld cc: illegal option -Wall make: *** [bkf]

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Frank Mash wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile bitkeeper free client on Solaris 10. However I keep getting the following errors: bash-3.00# CC=cc bash-3.00# export CC bash-3.00# make cc -O2 -Wall -Wno-parenthesesbkf.c -o bkf cc: Warning: option -2 passed to ld cc: illegal option

[osol-discuss] Re: Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Frank Mash
Thanks. Works like a charm. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Language CD

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Watkins
off topic, but how did you manage to install the software on the U10. I just did the same and it would not install any software pass CD1 I go through the install procedure and it install of the packages from CD 1 and then reports: Unable to run launcher without Java following CDs will not be

Re: [osol-discuss] DNS / resolver issue

2007-02-16 Thread Robert Thurlow
Tony Albers wrote: Installed Solaris Express Developer Edition 2/07 yesterday. It was very keen on being a dhcp-client, so I did a sys-unconfig. After the reboot I configured the network normally, static IP, no Ipv6, no name service, specified the router and all went well. I have moved

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Frank Mash wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile bitkeeper free client on Solaris 10. However I keep getting the following errors: bash-3.00# CC=cc bash-3.00# export CC bash-3.00# make cc -O2 -Wall -Wno-parenthesesbkf.c -o

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Al Hopper wrote: And now I'm sure that the real linker-saavy experts are going to show us both a better way to accomplish this. But I've been doing this since I first started working with Solaris many moons ago... :) I often use similar nm grepping myself, though the first resort is the much

[osol-discuss] ZFS causing slow boot up

2007-02-16 Thread Kory Wheatley
We created 10,000 zfs file systems with no data in them yet, and it seems after we did this our boot up process takes over an hour. This is on a v210 with 1gb of memory. We've rebooted the machine twice and it still takes an hour, and the system does have the latest Solaris 10 patches

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread James Carlson
Al Hopper writes: for i in /lib/*.so do /usr/ccs/bin/nm -Ag $i |grep -v UNDEF |grep gethostbyname done Please don't do that. There's no guarantee at all that the symbols you find with 'nm' are actually supported. If you use that (or, for that matter, grep over header files), then you can

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

2007-02-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
Andrew Pattison wrote: 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

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

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Collins
Bill Moffitt wrote: So, there's only one question left: what's going to make those five people sitting around in somebody's garage look around and, instead of coming to the conclusion that they need a Windows server, come to the obvious and irrefutable conclusion that they need a Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Undefined first referenced symbol in file gethostbyname /var/tmp//ccgyLdOf.o socket /var/tmp//ccgyLdOf.o connect

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Pattison
where did you downloaded the package from? Looking pkginfo of our UNWfirefox, there is an ARCH field which means pkgadd should check that against the platform installing to and should at least give you warning if not stop installing. I've sort of got into the habit with pkgadd of just

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-16 Thread John Plocher
For stuff that doesn't distinguish between ARCH's, this is tricky because the same packages can be used in different contexts: On a personal workstation, you would expect pkgadd to install things in (say) /usr/bin where you can use them directly in your PATH. But, what if you run a

[osol-discuss] NV57 fails on bootup on Athlon 64 3500

2007-02-16 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello, a successful install of NV57 results in a panic after bootup: error messages as shown below (painstakingly captured by hand) ereport.cpu.amd.nb.wdog ena=204cae318e1 detector=[ version=0 scheme=hc hc-list=[...] ] bank_status=b2070f0f bank-number=4 addr=80180c080 add-valid=0

Re: [osol-discuss] NV57 fails on bootup on Athlon 64 3500

2007-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Jeremy Teo wrote: a successful install of NV57 results in a panic after bootup: error messages as shown below (painstakingly captured by hand) ereport.cpu.amd.nb.wdog ena=204cae318e1 detector=[ version=0 scheme=hc hc-list=[...] ] bank_status=b2070f0f bank-number=4 addr=80180c080

Re: [osol-discuss] NV57 fails on bootup on Athlon 64 3500

2007-02-16 Thread James C. McPherson
James C. McPherson wrote: Jeremy Teo wrote: a successful install of NV57 results in a panic after bootup: error messages as shown below (painstakingly captured by hand) ereport.cpu.amd.nb.wdog ena=204cae318e1 detector=[ version=0 scheme=hc hc-list=[...] ] bank_status=b2070f0f