[osol-discuss] Bad mouse issues in OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-05-24 Thread Christopher Gibbs
So I just installed OpenSolaris 2008.05. First and second boots hung on the Copyright screen just before the hostname was displayed. Then I found this article: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/05/15/opensolaris-2008-05-and-other-places-the-sun-dont-shine/ So I unplug my Sun brand usb mouse and w

Re: [osol-discuss] ServeRAID 7k driver - no luck with SUN & IBM

2008-05-24 Thread Andrew C. Henle
The SUNWips driver should work. I did have some panic issues when I was using the 32-bit version to access a 10-drive U2W array attached to a ServeRAID 4 card configured with 5 pairs of mirrored drives all put into a ZFS raidz pool - the box would panic in the driver when I hit the pool really

Re: [osol-discuss] How to update Opensolaris 2008.05 to build 90

2008-05-24 Thread MC
> How to update Opensolaris 2008.05 to build 90 The short answer is that you can't. You can only upgrade to the packages Sun puts in the pkg.opensolaris.org repository, and they haven't updated those yet. They say they plan to update them frequently, but as to when that will be, you guess

[osol-discuss] How to update Opensolaris 2008.05 to build 90

2008-05-24 Thread Dirk Steinberg
Hi, i'd like to follow Opensolaris development closely for updates to ZFS, iSCSI, COMSTAR, etc. Previsously I did that based on SXCR, BFU'ing once in a while to biweekly onnv builds or even to weekly snapshots. Well, BFU is a terrible way to do package upgrades, and "Indiana" was described as t

[osol-discuss] becoming "postgres" user

2008-05-24 Thread Glenn Holmer
How do I become the "postgres" user to set up the initial database accounts? I tried su - postgres -c "psql template1" after becoming root, but got "No shell". If I'm reading /etc/passwd correctly, the postgres user's shell is /usr/bin/pfksh. -- "After the vintage season came the aftermath -

[osol-discuss] solaris and adaptec 8505

2008-05-24 Thread Maciej Jan Broniarz
Hi, I want to install solaris on an raid10 array made with adaptec 8505 sata raid. The problem is that the server doesn't see the array. It is weird, that during POST adaptec says that firmware image is corrupted and bios dodn't load. I have upgraded the firmware but it didn't change anything. May