Re: [osol-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

2007-08-19 Thread MC
Hi there, I think I have managed to confuse myself so i am asking outright hoping for a straight answer. First, my situation. I have several disks of varying sizes I would like to run as redundant storage ina file server at home. Performance is not my number one priority, largest

[osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Patrick Ale
Hey all, I just downloaded the DVD and CD version of SXCE70 and this is my experience so far: First of all, the new installer looks flashy and neat. I like the looks :D Then some things I bumped into during the installation. CD media: - Grub presents you the option to use the Developer's

Re: [osol-discuss] sol-nv-b70-x86-dvd-iso zip files failed to

2007-08-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you all know that you may write the CD with: cdrecord -v sol-nv-b70-sparc-dvd-iso-? as cdrecord combines several files to a single track on a DVD. great feature ! Ha! With this hint, I was able to find the relevant part in

[osol-discuss] Where can I ask questions regarding OS/NET, please?

2007-08-19 Thread Gueven Bay
Hi folks, I have a question regarding the main consolidation but I cannot find a proper forum to ask it there. I went here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/discussions/ the discussion page of the project OS/Net but there is not a forum then I went here:

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I ask questions regarding OS/NET, please?

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Lau
Gueven Bay wrote: Hi folks, I have a question regarding the main consolidation but I cannot find a proper forum to ask it there. I went here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/onnv/discussions/ the discussion page of the project OS/Net but there is not a forum then I went here:

[osol-discuss] Java package name allocations

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Tribble
Is there a registry of java package names, to avoid name clashes? For example, in jkstat, can I just use org.opensolaris.jkstat? (And what's the difference between org.opensolaris and org.opensolaris.os?) It strikes me that there ought to be a central list of package names so that we can avoid

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hey all, I just downloaded the DVD and CD version of SXCE70 and this is my experience so far: First of all, the new installer looks flashy and neat. I like the looks I think it is a giant leap in the right direction but I really do hope that the old text based console installer is still in

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP

2007-08-19 Thread Greg Potts
Allen Wittenauer wrote: ... As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server back-end is supposed to be pluggable, example code was (and probably still is) non-existent unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris codebase. When I last asked Dave Miner about it a few years ago, he said

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Burlison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. And no one here is likely to divulge the contents of confidential contracts signed between Sun and other companies either. Sun's lawyers and

[osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it would be automatically mounted but I was wrong .. snv_70 mounted the DVD as a HSFS filesystem which it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Best option for my home file server?

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Burlison
MC wrote: This is a good post for the help forum. :) Yes, please move this thread onto opensolaris-help - thanks! -- Alan Burlison -- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it would be automatically mounted but I was

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would expect that it would be automatically mounted but I was

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP

2007-08-19 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Dave Miner wrote: The Netra HA suite actually does, though I may not have known it at the time you asked (which I don't recall, to be honest ;-) That's OK, it was eons ago. :) I'm pretty sure, though, that I would have pointed anyone who asked at the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Dennis , I agree with you that SNV70 is not mounting a Vista UDFS dvd correctly I did a clean Install of Snv_70 on a new disc ( a 10.000 rpm disc which contributes nicely to the speed of the system btw ) The automount by HAL and rmmount did not mount the UDF filesystem

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 18:05 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:27 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Strangly .. basic applications fail to launch. For example, I wanted to see what happens when I insert a Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition DVD into my machine. I would

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-19 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
# fstyp -v /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 | more hsfs Some DVDs contain two filesystems [1], hence mountable as either hsfs and udfs. fstyp returns the first match, and that's what HAL will use. One fix would be to treat these in the same fashion we treat hybrid data+audio media, i.e. pop a dialog

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread Manish Chakravarty
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if there is