[osol-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates Installer/ON/NWS/Debian and provides basis for Network-type installations via main or third-part

[osol-discuss] Re: b65 and multibooting

2007-06-06 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > I ran into an issue with trying to install b65 onto a > previously > partitioned disk on an IBM stinkpad. The disk had > three partitions: > Solaris2 (b64a), Linux (Ubuntu 7) and Linux swap. > > I installed Ubuntu first, letting it overwrite the > MBR with its GRUB > and then proceeded

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Elling
Awesome news! I've really enjoyed the ease with which OpenSound works on my boxes. Thanks 4Front! -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 6 on snv_55b x86

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
Jason King wrote: Interestingly, I saw someone have the exact same error messages while trying to link Oracle on a reasonably recent Nevada build (might want to check in database-discuss for details). Don't know if there is a connection, but just seems a bit odd. cheers, I will check the dat

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 6 on snv_55b x86

2007-06-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, The error is from Sun ld(1). We check to insure a symbol is really encapsulated by a backing section. right. Im wonder to try this in S10, not in Nevada to see the results. In the above, the symbol s44W_info is associated to section .text. The .text section is size 1042 (0x412), but t

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Francois Saint-Jacques
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:09:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As monolithic as it may be, when you're building an entire > platform, something of that nature is required to deliver > it all. While it may be an unfamiliar task to Linux folks, > it isn't to those from the BSD world. > > Simi

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 6 on snv_55b x86

2007-06-06 Thread Jason King
Interestingly, I saw someone have the exact same error messages while trying to link Oracle on a reasonably recent Nevada build (might want to check in database-discuss for details). Don't know if there is a connection, but just seems a bit odd. On 6/5/07, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread John Plocher
Dev Mazumdar wrote: The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound +1! Adding icing to this cake is that Dev has been actively working with several of us getting things ready for an OpenSolaris ARC review of OSS as part of their initial code contribution! Of course, this mean

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread Freeman . Liu
+1 Dev Mazumdar wrote: Folks, The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June 14th). We will be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc. At this time, we'd like to propose that Open Sound be started as a project under th

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>Folks, > >The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June >14th). We will be offerin g the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc. > >At this time, we'd like to propose that Open Sound be started as a project >under the Desktop Comm

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread Dev Mazumdar
Folks, The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June 14th). We will be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc. At this time, we'd like to propose that Open Sound be started as a project under the Desktop Community and

[osol-discuss] b65 and multibooting

2007-06-06 Thread John Martinez
I ran into an issue with trying to install b65 onto a previously partitioned disk on an IBM stinkpad. The disk had three partitions: Solaris2 (b64a), Linux (Ubuntu 7) and Linux swap. I installed Ubuntu first, letting it overwrite the MBR with its GRUB and then proceeded to boot the b65 DV

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew Pattison
The nForce4 is not hardware RAID. The RAID is performed in software by the controller's BIOS, then by a driver loaded into the operating system once booted. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> > What is it that you actually want to do? > Permissions must be cheinged[i]![/i] > :) > What reason don't accessed by root? > I wish full access to my system! I still don't understand. Which permissions must be changed? Have you somehow damaged the system, or do you mean you want to log in as

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> I think troubles with sata don't with raid... > raid work correctly but it's only different theme... It completely irrelevant whether the hardware RAID works correctly or not. The reason why Solaris doesn't "see" the SATA drives is because the SATA driver for that RAID is not available. Whethe

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Семёнов Влади мир Викторович
> What is it that you actually want to do? Permissions must be cheinged[i]![/i] :) What reason don't accessed by root? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: isainfo on PPC

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> THere is none and even the uname(1) fields are > unreliable if > you compare different platforms. Yes, that is a problem I ran into seven years ago when I was trying to design a central NFS server that would store software for different operating systems and different architectures (IRIX, IRIX

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Семёнов Влади мир Викторович
>You should configure all your disks to be visible as individual drives - no >RAID, then you stand a chance of Solaris seeing the drives. I think troubles with sata don't with raid... raid work correctly but it's only different theme... I have work with nonstandart raid mode ;) I'ts possible with

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: isainfo on PPC

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> Workaround: Use "isainfo -k", I usually do this, i.e. > here: You have to consider that to be truly clean, a package must be a pure relocatable package. What does that mean? For example, it means that ISA one is installing from is not the same as the target ISA. Consider the scenario where

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Семёнов Влади мир Викторович
Thanks! I don't know about this link! Cool! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> Maybe need to starting within some keys like -noide > -noraidide (like with knoppix)? Solaris isn't GNU/Linux you know (:-) > I have SATA II disks on nForce4's (raid/sata) > Booting from OpenSolaris distributive don't see > SATA's only one of my IDE HDD Of course! Now it all makes sense. The

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> And more... How to installing, partitioning etc... > for > Open Solaris? Needs directly commands for newbie to > me? :) > How to install into a ready one partition? exemple > /hde ? > Please? Newbie or not, you'll have to sit down and "warm up the chair". The step-by-step documentation on inst

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Семёнов Влади мир Викторович
Maybe need to starting within some keys like -noide -noraidide (like knoppix)? I have SATA II disks on nForce4's (raid/sata) Booting from OpenSolaris distributive don't see SATA's only one of my IDE HDD Message was edited by: semiono This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> Hello! Where is a posting for a newbies? I'm sorry! > Please anybode say me "howto" I got to replase all of > perm in my Nexenta? > in /dev /devices and others!? Only need it! > Any is possible modes?... You should not modify permissions of files in /dev/ and /devices/. What is it that you actu

[osol-discuss] change all permissions

2007-06-06 Thread Семёнов Влади мир Викторович
Hello! Where is a posting for a newbies? I'm sorry! Please anybode say me "howto" I got to replase all of perm in my Nexenta? in /dev /devices and others!? Only need it! Any is possible modes?... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>*BSD have flag days for similar reasons to Solaris - >when you change (for example) the major number of libc, >chances are things will care about this. We do not have such flag days in Solaris. We only have build environment flag days because ON is not self-contained. The flag days are typical

[osol-discuss] Re: Unable To Install DBI::mysql on Solaris 10

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> I am still having trouble with this. Here is what I > have done > > Downloaded and installed perl / mysql / gcc / make Do yourself a favor, get Sun Studio compilers. They're gratis, generate up to 80% faster code, support Solaris (i86pc and sparc) and Linux, and have optimization capabili

[osol-discuss] Re: Unable To Install DBI::mysql on Solaris 10

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> So what the hell is going wrong? PEBKAC problem? (:-) > I guess it points to dynamic libraries being the > issue so if so is this a Solaris 10 issue? Having compiled tons and tons of software on Solaris, I seriously doubt it's a "Solaris 10 issue". What I can tell you is that compiling, link

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:36 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:35:33AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > > >> One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a > >> mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Darren . Reed
Joerg Schilling wrote: Francois Saint-Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Beforing getting in the package management/installation stuff, I think we need to solve a big problem here: ON build. The current build process is really monolithic and unfriendly for new commers. What is all that 'nig

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Darren . Reed
Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:09:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If I want to build just a specific kernel module, I cd to usr/src/uts/intel/ip (for example, to build just ip) and type "make all" in that directory. Similarly I can do a "make" in vario

[osol-discuss] Re: Unable To Install DBI::mysql on Solaris 10

2007-06-06 Thread Steve
[b]Update :--[/b] I thought I'd try to statically link the DBD::mysql module. Not sure if this is the correct way to do this but heres what happened :- [b]# perl Makefile.pl[/b] Edited Makefile and changed LINKTYPE from dynamic to static [b]#make # make test_static[/b] rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James Carlson wrote: Moinak Ghosh writes: The thing that is missing is a make menuconfig like stuff that can allow one to build a reduced set of kernel components or a reduced features kernel. Currently all kernel components are built. Ugh. Please, let's not go the way of the sort o

[osol-discuss] Re: Unable To Install DBI::mysql on Solaris 10

2007-06-06 Thread Steve
Thanks for your replies I am still having trouble with this. Here is what I have done Downloaded and installed perl / mysql / gcc / make and associated support packages from sunfreeware.com. These all install into /usr/local I have set up ${PATH} as follows :- [b] /usr/local/bin:/usr/lo

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Francois Saint-Jacques
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:08:16AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Francois Saint-Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Beforing getting in the package management/installation stuff, I think we > > need to solve a big problem here: ON build. The current build process is > > really monolithic an

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread James Carlson
Moinak Ghosh writes: > The thing that is missing is a make menuconfig like stuff that can allow > one to build a reduced set of kernel components or a reduced features > kernel. > Currently all kernel components are built. Ugh. Please, let's not go the way of the sort of #ifdef madness that trag

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:35:33AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I have been thinking that the best option would be to include templates i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: What's the best TERM setting when working remotely from a Linux system?

2007-06-06 Thread Ian Collins
UNIX admin wrote: >> UNIX admin wrote: >> >>> You like the tab feature of GNOME terminal? It's a >>> >> shame that GNOME terminal is slow and buggy. >> >>> >>> >>> >> Odd, it appears to be neither on my systems. >> > > The problem is actutely exhibited when huge am

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 65 available

2007-06-06 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> And since you ENVISION Solaris to be an enterprise OS > and Sun should pay its engineers to focus things more > "IMPORTANT," why do you have gripes with "garbled" > date format string in JDS running in zh_CN locale? > > > Ivan. Sorry I didn't mean to ignore your question. There is a long stor

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: What's the best TERM setting when working remotely from a Linux system?

2007-06-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>> UNIX admin wrote: >> > You like the tab feature of GNOME terminal? It's a >> shame that GNOME terminal is slow and buggy. >> > >> > >> Odd, it appears to be neither on my systems. > >The problem is actutely exhibited when huge amounts of output ser sent to the >terminal at very hig h spee

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: What's the best TERM setting when working remotely from a Linux system?

2007-06-06 Thread UNIX admin
> UNIX admin wrote: > > You like the tab feature of GNOME terminal? It's a > shame that GNOME terminal is slow and buggy. > > > > > Odd, it appears to be neither on my systems. The problem is actutely exhibited when huge amounts of output ser sent to the terminal at very high speeds. The thi