[osol-discuss] change the logo of dtlogin

2008-06-27 Thread Jeff Cai
I'm trying to change the default logo of nevada svn_92 by changing /etc/dt/C/Xresources according to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-6486/6ia6232cc?a=view. But it doesn't work. Who have ever done that on nevada? Jeff

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-27 Thread rockmelon
Did the BIOS update help ? It was looking like one of 3 possibilities - HBA firmware/BIOS, drive firmware or the Solaris ahci(7D) driver - or some incompaibility between them. Looking at the manpage for ahci, I see the NOTES indicate that the HBA mode can usually be changed in the BIOS between

Re: [osol-discuss] font display in snv_91

2008-06-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I don't know about all the changes in nv_91, I know one set of changes was made for: 6679786 [nevada] poor fonts displayed in gnome-terminal Unfortunately, the universal law of changing font display is, no matter what you change you will get angry mail from a bunch of

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Paul Gress schrieb: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Hmmm, interesting idea... I haven't so far bothered even dealing with it as I just happened to know UDF in relation to any kind of recordable media, but

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Sure? Did you verify that? UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but once you start

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
NO,NO,NO Please don't ! rpm is bad idea on any planet. THis is not Linux. Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most of the

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most of the operating system dependencies, only to install a package

Re: [osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-27 Thread Calum Benson
On 26 Jun 2008, at 12:16, Kristian Rink wrote: Way to go, is there a project like this up and running? Surely can't wait checking this out... It's not a project in the opensolaris.org sense (perhaps it should be?), and there's certainly nothing to play with yet. But there are some Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-27 Thread Kristian Rink
Calum Benson schrieb: It's not a project in the opensolaris.org sense (perhaps it should be?), and there's certainly nothing to play with yet. But there are some Sun folks working on it, and hopefully if I keep nagging them enough, they'll get around to sharing their ideas/code sooner

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. Sure? Did you verify that? UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UDF file systems as written by mkisofs (and thus unchangeable) can be read by all platforms but once you start to use writable UDF, compatibility usually ends. Jörg Is the specification too immature or incomplete (or in too many

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try the Universal Disk Format (UDF). I believe all three platforms should support it. Check into this. To get from a Linux machine to OpenSolaris or Solaris, with

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file systems) being

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
Kristian Rink writes: Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most of the operating system dependencies,

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Kristian Rink
James Carlson schrieb: Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with OpenSolaris on having to create redundant sub-installations of most of the operating system dependencies, only to install a package like,

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with OpenSolaris on having to create

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:31:34 PDT Mauro Mozzarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO,NO,NO Please don't ! rpm is bad idea on any planet. THis is not Linux. Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:55:09 PDT Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not adopt rpm? No way! IPS is awesome, it just needs more time to mature. As far as I'm concerned, a package system (whatever it looks like): * bundles a set of files that must be installed as a unit

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
Kristian Rink writes: Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries maintained - who should possibly spend time and effort doing so? Maybe in terms of OpenSolaris, people should leave aside the self-contained

Re: [osol-discuss] Too much zfs snapshot taking up space after update

2008-06-27 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
Hi all, I had such high hopes that this would solve my problem. But it doesn't, and I think it's telling me that my rpool is just too small to continue. I've managed to promote opensolaris-5/opt, and destroyed all the...-4/[EMAIL PROTECTED] pools, but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# zfs list NAME

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs: move and migrate installation locally?

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Miner
Kristian Rink wrote: Dave Miner schrieb: Theoretically, yes, but since OpenSolaris can't use multiple fdisk partitions on the same disk, your options are fairly limited. Thanks for your comments on that... so, rude idea: Messing with the partitions, using (g)parted or something the like

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries maintained - who should possibly spend time and effort doing so?

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries maintained - who should

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Miner
Dennis Clarke wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries maintained - who should possibly spend time

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dennis Clarke wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:37 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristian Rink writes: Talking about OpenSolaris though, I (honestly) don't see much use in keeping a vast bunch of different builds of the same libraries

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
Moinak Ghosh writes: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No matter _what_ packaging mechanism is used, that's a tall order. I certainly don't blame anyone for not tackling it. I suspect it might not be fixable in any real sense at all. It appears

Re: [osol-discuss] change the logo of dtlogin

2008-06-27 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I'm trying to change the default logo of nevada svn_92 by changing /etc/dt/C/Xresources according to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-6486/6ia6232cc?a= view. But it doesn't work. Who have ever done that on nevada? I've done it, but not like that - I just

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-27 Thread victor
could this be the issue? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/x86_64# fmadm faulty --- -- - TIMEEVENT-ID MSG-ID SEVERITY --- --

[osol-discuss] Blackberry Support

2008-06-27 Thread Stuart {Balckberry handheld}
Team, I would like to throw out there a suggestion for OpenSolaris that I have never known to have been previously mentioned. There is such a lot of great ideas being floated here but I have not seen anything mentioned about the desktop including an integrated utility supporting Blackberry

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have also to backup a few

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file systems) being FAT32. Taken into account

[osol-discuss] MySQL --libs

2008-06-27 Thread Andras Barna
i'm trying to compile a hello mysql C program. i compiled it with: cc -o hellomysql $(mysql_config --cflags) hellomysql.c $(mysql_config --libs) but the problem is after executing it: ..libmysqlclient.so.15: open failed.. my mysql_config --libs is : -L/opt/SUNWspro.40/SS11/lib -lCrun -lrt

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs. -- Shawn Walker I take it that Solaris won't r/w the BSD-ufs? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux,

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting Started With Crossbow Technology or Network Virtualization pape

2008-06-27 Thread Nagendra Nagarajayya
This paper is now available as an early access release from the below URL: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Docs/getting_started_with_crossbow.pdf It will be published on the bigadmin portal, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.html sometime in July. - NN This message

[osol-discuss] Need help with Xvnc server on OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-06-27 Thread Fred
Newbie here. Also a Mac consultant of 20 years (read graphically minded, not CI). Trying to set up a zfs home server that I can run headless (at this point, I wish I were headless - less headache). Anyway I've done a bunch of work to move the VNC server over to Xvnc, downloaded the package,

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-27 Thread rockmelon
I would say so. The error appear to identify a single SATA port if I read it right. Could be the port/cable/drive. Though you had 2 slow drives... Are you using long (3') SATA cables or 18 ones ? I imagine you have checked connector seating. Do Intel provide diags ? An Ultimate Boot CD

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-27 Thread victor
Reading further into it, it seems like I am not the only one with this issue. Everything might be fine with the motherboard, just the OS returning that result. I remember checking everything out with the motherboard when updating the firmware/bios on it. I am not the only one with this