Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR must have
the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition must be marked as active.
In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not
active. Typically the scenario if one has been dual-booting Solaris
and
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR must have
the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition must be marked as active.
In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not
active. Typically the scenario if one has been
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Vista has 2 hard requirements in order to boot. The MBR must have
the Vista bootloader. The Vista partition must be marked as active.
In fact Vista won't even install if the Windows partition is not
active. Typically the
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Grub in the MBR. installgrub in Solaris overwrites the whole sector
which would destroy the disk signature.
Do you know if this is different from how grub in Linux does it?
Regards,
Manoj
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
On 3/28/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Casper,
I did try it. It works perfect!
Howerver, the issue is not about case convert. It's tr sending
unexpected output. sometimes even core dumped.
I 'm not sure SUN would take it
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Grub in the MBR. installgrub in Solaris overwrites the whole sector
which would destroy the disk signature.
Do you know if this is different from how grub in Linux does it?
Well since you have asked this question, I spent a few minutes
On 2/27/07, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2523
ditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2524
pe these 2 guides are useful to you.
(For some reason I was unable to
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/
Might be helpful to give url's reachable outside the swan.
-
. Instructions for Manual set up:
http://fs.central/projects/zfsboot/zfsboot_manual_setup.html
^^
2. Instructions for
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Grub in the MBR. installgrub in Solaris overwrites the whole sector
which would destroy the disk signature.
Do you know if this is different from how grub in Linux does it?
Well since you have asked this
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
During the Windows 95 fiasco in China, police (public security officer,
公安局）raided stores and offices in Beijing searching for Windows 95 installed
machines and confiscating Windows 95 disks. It was scary. I don't think
anything like that is going to happen here; we
Excelent news!! I can now use ZFS to boot and install Solaris?
The links don't work :-(
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Frank Hofmann wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
Grub in the MBR. installgrub in Solaris overwrites the whole sector
which would destroy the disk signature.
Do you know if this is different from how grub in Linux does it?
[...]
Why it is impossible to get the latest KDE for Solaris.
I know, it is possible to install sources.
But why not binaries.
I hope that some day it is possible command:
pkg-get -i kde (latest).
Martti
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
Excelent news!! I can now use ZFS to install Solaris?
According to the announcement: no
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/
»The ability to use Solaris Install infrastructure to install a ZFS root
filesystem will be available in the future build.«
If you're talking about Lastwave then they *do* produce binaries of KDE for
Solaris - check out:
http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php
Cheers
Andrew.
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
Hey guys I'm seriously considering moving from Windows to OpenSolaris. With all
the DRM problems including the software lockouts if it's determined your
softare isn't legit including software that isn't related to Microsoft like
Photoshop I've been hearing and how Microsoft is forcing this on
Indeed. Although whether it's them being slow packaging, or the work to
get KDE releases clean for Solaris having to be done after rather than during
the development, fact is, they were behind last I looked. Now I personally
wouldn't care to be a pest on that point, since likely nobody's being
Hi all,
being used to Subversion and CVS, I come over Mercurial. Looking at its
ways of working, I can't understand what is the distributiveness for and
why should I replicate whole repository with all its history just to
change few files.
So what is the benefit of having distributed
Mike wrote:
Hey guys I'm seriously considering moving from Windows to OpenSolaris. With all
the DRM problems including the software lockouts if it's determined your
softare isn't legit including software that isn't related to Microsoft like
Photoshop I've been hearing and how Microsoft is
Milan Cermak wrote:
Hi all,
being used to Subversion and CVS, I come over Mercurial. Looking at its
ways of working, I can't understand what is the distributiveness for and
why should I replicate whole repository with all its history just to
change few files.
So what is the benefit of having
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:14 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
(FWIW, personally, I consider GNOME to have very little in the way of
eye-candy... I still think it looks like something out of the mid-90's
most of the time!)
(Just in case I offend any of our visual designers, I should point out
that's
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:36 -0300, Javier O. Augusto wrote:
MC wrote:
Sometimes choice is bad.
erm, when?
Well, to put it most simply: when the chooser doesn't take
responsibility for the choices they make. Something most of us in the
IT industry are familiar with, I'd think... especially
Javier O. Augusto wrote:
MC wrote:
[..]
Sometimes choice is bad.
erm, when?
When the number of choices is overwhelming and don't
differ
in user-discernible ways, the multitude of choices
becomes
an overwhelming barrier to entry/use.
Just because it can be configured does
This is not straightly true. I have a starter kit
from London Tech
ay which has Solaris Express Community edition based
on b56.
I have a colleage with starter kit which has B57.
As far as I can see
he starter kit is continue to be updated with the
latest which
make sense from the
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
This is not straightly true. I have a starter kit
from London Tech
ay which has Solaris Express Community edition based
on b56.
I have a colleage with starter kit which has B57.
As far as I can see
he starter kit is continue to be updated with the
latest which
make
Good work to the folks involved!! :)
Now we can look forward to seeing the new installation environment ;)
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
I. Szczesniak wrote:
/usr/bin/tr is one of the big problems in Solaris - the behaviour is
nonstandard and Sun declared long ago that fixes to support multibyte
locales are off limits because they would break backwards
compatibility.
So use the one in /usr/xpg4/bin.
- Bart
--
Bart
Jürgen Keil wrote:
Excelent news!! I can now use ZFS to install Solaris?
According to the announcement: no
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/
»The ability to use Solaris Install infrastructure to install a ZFS root
filesystem will be
Hye, back.
1. So if I want to save logs from DTrace scripts, it would be more simple to
use JDtrace Solaris express ?
2. What is used to save logs in JDTrace ? I saw these lines :
[i]To log PrintaRecord, set this environment variable:
JDTRACE_LOGGING_LEVEL=FINE
To log
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Mike wrote:
Hey guys I'm seriously considering moving from Windows to
OpenSolaris. With all the DRM problems including the software
lockouts if it's determined your softare isn't legit including
software that isn't related to Microsoft like Photoshop I've been
The ISO you should use for your production environment should be the
one that passed your testing in your staging environment ;)
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[ I changed Alan's email address and opensolaris-discuss to Bcc at this
reply. Please check on or join i18n-discuss if you're interested in this
discussion. ]
Thanks, Alan, for bring this to i18n-discuss.
Hello Wayne,
Thanks for bring up on the derogatory language issue.
Would you please
Hi,
You can run a text installer, which is similar to the old Windows NT/2000/XP
setup proceedure; which isn't too bad.
The bigger problem is how much of the hardware is proprietary and
unsupported on either Linux or some other operating system - with that being
said, I assume its got all the
True.
Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases
the coolness factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement
in 256MB RAM.
Of course it is possible. It can be done in a few KB. It's just that people
have gotten to be brainwashed with all the
Because responsible folks don't listen to Moinak Ghosh's Belenix
minimize_Grub_bootImage - approach?
(plus because the previous reliable/fast/memory-saving suninstall
installer had to be replaced by whatever thing that somehow needed to be
java based [for whatever marketing reasons], not to
Please, no entrenched GNOME or gcc.
What does that mean?
It means please do not take it down the Nexenta road
of using gcc built packages and fat unstable GNOME. It
is a real pity that firefox and thunderbird use gtk. I
am not saying everything gnome is bad but the
underlying gtk stuff is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are unexpected outputs
echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
FGH
echo EFG|/usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
FGH
Th
correct output
echo EFG|/usr/bin/tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
efg
I only see this issue on SPARC solaris. both 06/06 11/06. The x86 one seems to
Hi Casper,
I did try it. It works perfect!
Howerver, the issue is not about case convert. It's tr sending
unexpected output. sometimes even core dumped.
I 'm not sure SUN would take it as a bug or not.
e.g
echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
echo EFG|/usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
pBC
hard to pick now.
Bart Smaalders wrote:
I. Szczesniak wrote:
/usr/bin/tr is one of the big
On Saturday 24 March 2007 03:30 am, a b wrote:
Don't even get me started on Java.
Better yet, don't get yourself started on it.
--
Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company!
On 23/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You can run a text installer, which is similar to the old Windows NT/2000/XP
setup proceedure; which isn't too bad.
The bigger problem is how much of the hardware is proprietary and
unsupported on either Linux or some other operating
Hey,
Thanks to Rob, we're already starting the process of being able to rate the
submitted student proposals. We have some pretty tight deadlines of deciding the
best ones, and assigning mentors.
We are still looking for mentors for these, particularly as point of contacts
for various projects.
Dear all,
Here is a code snippet.
scds_handle_t handle;
if (scds_initialize(scds_handle, argc, argv) != 0) {
return (1);
}
pathname = malloc((size_t) (len * sizeof (char)));
saved_errno = ENOENT;
(void)
Hey, Just to clarify
One of those emancipation projects is mine, and if any of them are
going to be accepted in a useful way, a mentor who isn't tainted by
license issues needs to be found. So ideally, someone outside Sun, but
practically, anyone who's not involved in ON should be fair game (
Glynn Foster wrote:
Please, if you are interested in mentoring a student or reviewing proposals this
summer, please join [EMAIL PROTECTED] or contact me directly. I'm not
going to mail opensolaris-discuss about it again. Please also feel free to
forward to interested sub-communities or
Steven Xie wrote:
echo EFG|/usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
pBC
hard to pick now.
This is crazy. Has anybody filed a bug yet?
Scott
Hey,
Tom Haynes wrote:
One of the things throwing me is what do you (and the other emails
before this) mean
by join [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Do you want us to send email to
that address?
Are we supposed to subscribe to the list?
Yes, ideally. It'll be a forum that is used for communication with
Glynn Foster wrote:
Hey,
Tom Haynes wrote:
One of the things throwing me is what do you (and the other emails
before this) mean
by join [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Do you want us to send email to
that address?
Are we supposed to subscribe to the list?
Yes, ideally. It'll be a forum that is
Durga Deep Tirunagari wrote:
Dear all,
Here is a code snippet.
scds_handle_t handle;
if (scds_initialize(scds_handle, argc, argv) != 0) {
return (1);
}
pathname = malloc((size_t) (len * sizeof (char)));
saved_errno = ENOENT;
Hi,
I found the following error in my /var/adm/messages file.
Mar 30 03:27:36 sr1-ebiz1 SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 446889 kern.info] NOTICE:
[AFT0] UCC Event detected by CPU288 in User mode at TL=0, errID
0x004deb48.6f54fc94
Mar 30 03:27:36 sr1-ebiz1 AFSR 0x0400UCC.0008 AFAR
According to the AFSR (asynchronous fault status register) a single-bit
error was discovered in the Ecache on one of your processors. The
Ecache has ECC, so the system is able to automatically detect and
correct single-bit errors. If this is the only instance of this type of
error in your
51 matches
Mail list logo
