Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest the gparted live CD, which I just used to resize my laptop's partition so I could dual-boot between multiple operating systems: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ It's free. *Backup your data first!* Well, I would not use gparted again. It did

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Cj
I am not using vista but XP will I have the same issue then? Anyone done this with XP? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not using vista but XP will I have the same issue then? Anyone done this with XP? Should work fine with XP. I have used it on many laptops. However as usual I cannot give you a guarantee. Backup your data and backup the

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] samba 3.2.0 on os200805 won't get past configure

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out .. what is wrong. It could be me or it could be my system state .. not too sure. I cna build samba 3.2.0 on a trusty old

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Thurlow
Joerg Schilling wrote: Well, I would not use gparted again. It did destroy a Vista installation because if moved (shifted) the vista partition by several sectors without being told to do so. It turns out that vista includes a tool to shrink ntfs partitions - forgot the name. I've

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] samba 3.2.0 on os200805 won't get past configure

2008-07-11 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out .. what is wrong. It could be me or it could be my

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] samba 3.2.0 on os200805 won't get past configure

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] nv93 available - thank you!

2008-07-11 Thread Ian Collins
Paul Gress wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: Just started my download of nv93. Noted that the size has pretty much shrunk, to 2915200 kB. While this is good for the download, may I ask if we can expect leaner code, or have certain items been removed? Well for one, Sun Studio has been

Re: [osol-discuss] 2 questions regarding OS, total newbie

2008-07-11 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey Cyrus, On 12/07/2008, at 7:40 AM, Thommy M. wrote: Cyrus wrote: a) i have solaris 10 (not opensolaris) currently installed on my laptop, and i just heard about opensolaris so im downloading it as we speak. is it worth installing opensolaris and wiping the original installation? It

Re: [osol-discuss] nv93 available - thank you!

2008-07-11 Thread Tim Scanlon
I think they'd be better off ditching Star Office from the install over the compilers for most people, but oh well. In my experience the same people who know that OpenOffice is free, and in most cases know OpenSolaris comes with StarOffice, do not know that the compilers are free to use.