[osol-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-14 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi, I'm doing the following actions on my solaris 10 system. Please let me know if zfs will do the following things: - Question1: - Will zfs employ ordinary raid0 stripes while creating the file dust? Question2: - Since most of my file /exp/dust1 (~74% = 1 - 400MB/1500MB) reside on

[osol-discuss] xVM virt-install fails while installing the OS

2008-04-14 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi i'm trying to install Solaris10 on a virtual machine created by xVM command virt-install. However, after configuring the installation the utility fails the installation with the following error message: - Preparing system for Solaris install Configuring disk (c0d0) - Creating Fdisk

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris10 Samba not able to login from windowsXP

2008-04-04 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
I managed to bring samba(ver 3.0.28a) up successfully. Version 3.0.25c which came with my installation CD didn't work and I didn't bother to check why, but why the other 2 versions didn't work as well was because I was careless enough to replace the binaries alone and not the libraries. Once i

[osol-discuss] Solaris10 Samba not able to login from windowsXP

2008-04-03 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi I have installed one after the other various versions of Samba (3.0.22, 3.0.25 and 3.0.28) each of them successfully install and svcadm shows the daemon as online. The testparm tool doesn't report any error either. I have added users to the usr/local/samba/private/passwd file as well and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting root on NFS fails

2007-12-09 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
I have confirmed this with a Solaris expert that mounting root on NFS cannot be done in Solaris while you are booting off a local disk and not unless it is a PXE boot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Mounting root on NFS fails

2007-12-05 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi I am booting solaris on an x86 machine with the image installed solaris on a flash drive and have another system running solaris with its root file system exported on the nfs. On the system which uses the flash I modified the /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file as follows: - I changed setprop

[osol-discuss] Mounting root on NFS fails

2007-12-05 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi I am booting solaris on an x86 machine with the image installed solaris on a flash drive and have another system running solaris with its root file system exported on the nfs. On the system which uses the flash I modified the /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file as follows: - I changed setprop

[osol-discuss] Mounting root on NFS fails

2007-12-05 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi I am booting solaris on an x86 machine with the image installed solaris on a flash drive and have another system running solaris with its root file system exported on the nfs. On the system which uses the flash I modified the /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file as follows: - I changed setprop

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting root on NFS fails

2007-12-05 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi there, am not trying a PXE boot but I am trying to have the kernel image on flash and boot Solaris off that image and try to mount the root alone on the nfs. Also this is possible in Linux where we boot the kernel off a flash and mount the root on the nfs and I am trying to get the

[osol-discuss] Strip Solaris off non-essential drivers!

2007-12-02 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi I need some assistance in the following: - I am trying to strip the current solaris build off the drivers which may not be really essential. I would like to not make the audio drivers, crypto drivers, 1394, the dtrace binaries etc. a part of the final tar ball. If any one can add on to this

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris booted off fine but some doubts

2007-11-28 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Finally it worked. I have booted off the compiled kernel after all. The thing that worked was a fresh 'make install' on workspace/usr/src directory instead of the numerous 'make all' s that I had been trying. I successfully chose the correct kernel from the GRUB menu and the system booted off

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling issue on x86!

2007-11-22 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Bhaskar Jayaraman wrote: Hi thanks for your posts so far. Since what I had assumed was a 32 bit kernel which I compiled didn't work, I religiously set out on compiling a 64 bit version as my system is currently booted in 64 bit mode. I installed SUNStudio12 on the system and set

[osol-discuss] Compiling issue on x86!

2007-11-21 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi thanks for your posts so far. Since what I had assumed was a 32 bit kernel which I compiled didn't work, I religiously set out on compiling a 64 bit version as my system is currently booted in 64 bit mode. I installed SUNStudio12 on the system and set the SPRO_VROOT to point towards it and