Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread Steven Acres
paul richie wrote: ok this helps some now for the other part thats getting me about the install. i am used to doing this sudo apt-get install flash (i renamed my flash driver (flash) to make it easer to install so you say that i need to use (pfexec) insted of (sudo) so i did this pfexec ap

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread Erast
Take a look on http://www.nexenta.org project. Might be easier for you. paul richie wrote: my biggest problem right now is that i can not install anything because i can't use sudo and i cant figer out how to add myself to the sudoers folder or list everything i reed on-line just said to use the s

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread paul richie
ok this helps some now for the other part thats getting me about the install. i am used to doing this sudo apt-get install flash (i renamed my flash driver (flash) to make it easer to install so you say that i need to use (pfexec) insted of (sudo) so i did this pfexec apt-get install flash m

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:22 AM, paul richie wrote: > my biggest problem right now is that i can not install anything because i > can't use sudo and i cant figer out how to add myself to the sudoers folder > or list everything i reed on-line just said to use the su command but never > explains

[osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread paul richie
my biggest problem right now is that i can not install anything because i can't use sudo and i cant figer out how to add myself to the sudoers folder or list everything i reed on-line just said to use the su command but never explains how. i have tried about everything i can think of and get one

Re: [osol-discuss] USB keyboard language selection screen with dead keyboard

2009-09-13 Thread Martin Patton
Thanks to the person who suggested disabling legacy usb support in the bios. That let me go past the keyboard language screen and install opensolaris on an unused virtual disk. Now there are missing third party drivers for the wireless network card, Broadcom Airforce1 (54G), and for the Intel 8

[osol-discuss] USB keyboard language selection screen with dead keyboard

2009-09-13 Thread Martin Patton
I am starting opensolaris from the free cd received on 9/12/09. The boot proceeds to a screen that asks for a usb keyboard language selection, (press enter for default <43>). My keyboard is dead at this point. Using an older gateway laptop. Thanks for any suggestions. -- This message posted fro

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenCL

2009-09-13 Thread Krzysztof Abramowicz
Apart From OpenCL new interesting apple's technology is open by open source http://www.osnews.com/story/22152/Apple_Releases_Grand_Central_Dispatch_as_Open_Source -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

[osol-discuss] Webcast Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 -- Larry Ellison Live: Joint Oracle and Sun Product Announcement

2009-09-13 Thread Steven Acres
For those interested: Larry Ellison Live: Joint Oracle and Sun Product Announcement JOIN THE WEBCAST ON TUESDAY (the Webcast url will be live on Tuesday) http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0911/feature/index.jsp This Webcast will take place on: Tuesday 15 September 2009 1pm San Francisc

[osol-discuss] Quote Original Jive Forums

2009-09-13 Thread Steven Acres
Hey all, Would posters utilizing the forums please hit the 'Quote Original' button when replying to threads. Many of us use the mail-lists and when threads aren't quoted, have no reference (yes .. I _could_ group by thread on my client, don't care for that though). Thanks! -- Cheers, Steven