[osol-discuss] where is the information of package placed.

2008-07-03 Thread wan_jm
I want to where the package information ( the result of pkginfo -l ) is placed. as I need to do upgrade S9 - S10. after upgrade , I need to reuse the package installed on another disk. so I need to know where they are put, so that I can copy them to S10. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] where is the information of package placed.

2008-07-03 Thread UNIX admin
I want to where the package information ( the result of pkginfo -l ) is placed. as I need to do upgrade S9 - S10. after upgrade , I need to reuse the package installed on another disk. so I need to know where they are put, so that I can copy them to S10. There are two files,

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-03 Thread UNIX admin
So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris and switch to Linux? Of course not! Or keep Solaris, but kill ZFS and switch to ext2fs? Of course not! Where's your line for where Sun should be different and where it should just use what others use? Anywhere where using the same

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate

2008-07-03 Thread UNIX admin
I think you've missed a lot of his earlier posts. He'd be happiest if un killed Solaris and switched to *IRIX*. Not quite true. As someone who has been using Solaris (my first UNIX ever) since the 2.5 days, I think I have a decent understanding of Solaris's strengths and weaknesses. To

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris and switch to Linux? Of course not! Or keep Solaris, but kill ZFS and switch to ext2fs? Of course not! Where's your line for where Sun should be different and where it should just use what others use? Anywhere where

Re: [osol-discuss] Disabling all animations and window effects in SNV 91?

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew C. Henle
You need to do: Launch Button PreferencesApperanceVisual effectsnone Log out Log in. //Lars Doesn't work. I'll try to attach a screenshot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-03 Thread UNIX admin
Pick the one that works for you, and leave other folks for whom another choice works better to their own devices, please. The problem is, one day I might run into the other choice at some other employer - and than I will have a mess on my hands. So in this particular case, you can't just

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Pick the one that works for you, and leave other folks for whom another choice works better to their own devices, please. The problem is, one day I might run into the other choice at some other employer - and than I will have a mess on my hands. So in this particular case, you

[osol-discuss] Mailman downtime

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
We need to bring the Mailman service down starting now. We expect it to be back online in 60 - 90 minutes. Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Temporary Mail Outage

2008-07-03 Thread Derek Cicero
We'll be taking the mail server down for some routine maintenance in few minutes. The outage should last roughly 1 hour. Derek ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-07-03 Thread Rob Clark
There is another thread on Package Management here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=59952tstart=0 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-07-03 Thread victor
tried that, fault is still there. I recently tried setting maxphys but that did not help. set maxphys=4194304 in /etc/system I guess I can only hope for an update that might possibly fix this issue? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Barcelona and Phenom Processors

2008-07-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Since only generations 10 and above of AMD's family of processors are supported for power management, I am thinking about upgrading a couple of our Athlon X2 machines to either Barcelona or Phenom (w/o changing the motherboards). Can anyone share your experience in running OpenSolaris on either

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-07-03 Thread Rob Clark
I have OpenSolaris 2008.05 running and really enjoy the ease of the Package Manager GUI. I was disappointed when I fired up Solaris Express: Community Edition (SX:CE) snv_91 and found there was no package manager. I looked for the package's project and found that one could compile it from

Re: [osol-discuss] [shell-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-24 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana) ...

2008-07-03 Thread David Korn
cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [shell-discuss] [osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-24 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana) ... funny thing .. if I have an xterm open and then I resize the xterm by

[osol-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-03 Thread Jim
Anyone here read the article Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 at http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 Does RAIDZ have the same chance of unrecoverable read error as RAID5 in Linux if the RAID has to be rebuilt because of a faulty disk? I imagine so because of the physical constraints that

[osol-discuss] Help me create snv91 sparc boot cd

2008-07-03 Thread Alexander R. Eremin
Anybody knows how to use mkisofs to create Sparc Nevada boot CD? ( I have /boot (with hsfs.bootblock and sparc.miniroot) and /platform directories.)Old methods tell me create image with slices but last SXCE have miniroot image. Need help. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-07-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rob Clark wrote: SXCE is a platform used to build OpenSolaris so it seems we ought to (try to) follow the updating procedures (BFU) in place ( http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#build ) . BFU is not the update procedure for SXCE - it's a quick way for developers of a portion of OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-03 Thread john g4lt
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:32 AM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris and switch to Linux? Of course not! Or keep Solaris, but kill ZFS and switch to ext2fs? Of course not! Where's your line for where Sun should be different and where

[osol-discuss] how to make a customed opensolaris img ISO?

2008-07-03 Thread likaijun
Hi ,everyone. I want to create a customed opensolaris ISO like NexentaOS. Can someone give me some suggestion? method ,doc,tools ,env etc? Several days ago ,I built the opensolaris kernel according to the DOC build_opensolaris.pdf,but it end with BFU. It's not what I wanted. My Email: