Re: [osol-discuss] afely shinking M$ XP partition?

2007-12-27 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Pawel Wojcik wrote: > Is it safe to shrink M$ XP partition using Symantc's Partition Magic? > I got the laptop with XP pre-installed and want to make room on the disk > for Solaris and Fedora. There are many references on Internet to > Partition Magic as THE tool to resize the

Re: [osol-discuss] Video card and possible IRQ problem

2007-12-27 Thread M D
> I have a v40z that I am attempting to add a pci > GeForce 6200 video card to. > If I insert the video card into slot 2,3,6 or 7 the > system fails to see any of the scsi disk drives. > If I insert the video card into slot 4,5 the system > can see the scsi disks but the video card fails to > show

Re: [osol-discuss] afely shinking M$ XP partition?

2007-12-27 Thread Josh Lange
I've had great success with partition magic, it is *probably* the best. There are also open source utilities that have also recently added support for resizing ntfs (gparted on linux is one of them), and people I know have recommended it, though I have not had the opportunity to try them out. Jos

[osol-discuss] afely shinking M$ XP partition?

2007-12-27 Thread Pawel Wojcik
Is it safe to shrink M$ XP partition using Symantc's Partition Magic? I got the laptop with XP pre-installed and want to make room on the disk for Solaris and Fedora. There are many references on Internet to Partition Magic as THE tool to resize the disk partition where XP resides, but there are

Re: [osol-discuss] ASUS EeePCs (Was: Laptop testing) on ODM laptops

2007-12-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I was told by a couple of private mails that the current models of EeePCs have 800x480 on board resolution and can do 1280x1024 on suitable external monitors. Thanks for the updates. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Too many asy#0 interrupts. cpu 100%

2007-12-27 Thread Stephen Lau
You have a dodgy motherboard (known as the K1 systemboard). If you turn off/reconfigure your serial console from the SP you should see these go away. When I was at Sun we hit the same problem with some of our machines. You might try calling your support person and asking them to tell you the

Re: [osol-discuss] How to complete the distro

2007-12-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Dec 27, 2007 7:53 AM, A.Belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I 've installed the opensolaris (in-preview), it is uncomplete of course, >> since it just contains ONE cd. >> I want to complete it, >> I am new to solaris and I used debian, >> first : is there something like apt-get of

Re: [osol-discuss] How to complete the distro

2007-12-27 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Dec 27, 2007 7:53 AM, A.Belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I 've installed the opensolaris (in-preview), it is uncomplete of course, > since it just contains ONE cd. > I want to complete it, > I am new to solaris and I used debian, > first : is there something like apt-get of debian ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-27 Thread MC
> Have you tried installing the smb package? > > % sudo apt-get install sunwsmbsu That definitely worked thank you :) After enabling smb it reports some things, not sure if they are nexentacp specific or not, if so I'll take it to a launchpad bug report. svcadm: svc:/milestone/network depends

[osol-discuss] Video card adn possible IRQ problem

2007-12-27 Thread M D
I have a v40z that I am attempting to add a pci GeForce 6200 video card to. If I insert the video card into slot 2,3,6 or 7 the system fails to see any of the scsi disk drives. If I insert the video card into slot 4,5 the system can see the scsi disks but the video card fails to show up on the sy

[osol-discuss] How to complete the distro

2007-12-27 Thread A.Belahcene
Hi, I 've installed the opensolaris (in-preview), it is uncomplete of course, since it just contains ONE cd. I want to complete it, I am new to solaris and I used debian, first : is there something like apt-get of debian ? second: where to find sites to download other package, for example the gra

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-27 Thread Roman Morokutti
# prtconf | grep Memory Memory size: 2944 Megabytes Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Too many asy#0 interrupts. cpu 100%

2007-12-27 Thread Gino
Hi All, we have a v40z suffering a strange problem. We installed snv78 after upgrading to the latest BIOS. Now we have one CPU at 100% because of asy#0 interrupts. Here is intrstat output: device | cpu0 %tim cpu1 %tim cpu2 %tim cpu3 %tim -+-

[osol-discuss] b78 installlatio fails

2007-12-27 Thread Roman Morokutti
Hi, I recently installed b78 and if nobody pointed out yet, the installation failed and aborted abnormally. The reason was that the install script of the developer tools had no execution rights. I applied the following workaround: 1. After failed installation reboot. 2. Copy "DeveloperTools" fo

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlockedonSolarisx86machine

2007-12-27 Thread Casper . Dik
>Hi > >I have tried LD_PRELOAD and UMEM_DEBUG with my program on Sparc. >Everything worked. I also am unable to find any bug in my program. > >No clue as to who is the culprit.. You will need to go over your code and check it carefully. Something is copying a few extra bytes into a structure. (N

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-27 Thread UNIX admin
> # isainfo -kv > 64-bit amd64 kernel modules There you have it. The system is currently running a 64-bit kernel. As for memory, what does prtconf | awk '/^Memory/' report? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-27 Thread UNIX admin
> I recently installed 4 GB RAM but only see 3 GB. This is normal behavior for most PC-buckets. It's a BIOS issue, where a part of the RAM is allocated for something, nor sure what exactly. It even states so in the manual for some of my systems. This is not a Solaris issue, as Solaris can easi

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a shows i386 on 64 bit capable system

2007-12-27 Thread Roman Morokutti
I am afraid, HP is very rigid with its BIOS. Memory remapping is not offered by it as also the flag cannot be edited to enable the AMD-V extensions. Really sad. I thought of installing an open BIOS like openBIOS or something similar, but don´t know if those would solve my problems then - if not da

Re: [osol-discuss] SIGSEGV in libc.so.1`_malloc_unlockedonSolarisx86machine

2007-12-27 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Vamsee Priya wrote: > Hi > > I have tried LD_PRELOAD and UMEM_DEBUG with my program on Sparc. > Everything worked. I also am unable to find any bug in my program. > > No clue as to who is the culprit.. Are you willing to share the coredump, and/or the application sourcecode