Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-05 Thread Bruce Porter
Stellaris ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 DVD set

2010-07-07 Thread Bruce D Porter
, and are exempt from getting any service work done that is the fault of the manufacturer. I think we need to get with the 21st Century, and replace car with ipad|phone. -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox/OpenSolaris

2010-07-03 Thread Bruce D Porter
systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. Answers the question, I believe -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse

Re: [osol-discuss] How to login after first install

2010-02-17 Thread Bruce D Porter
for a password for it. Once logged in, create a new user and use that. -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-08 Thread Bruce D Porter
). :-) -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs OpenSolaris (NOW: Read The ARCHIVES)

2010-02-05 Thread Bruce
? I wish :-) -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs OpenSolaris (NOW: Read The ARCHIVES)

2010-02-05 Thread Bruce D Porter
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:45:13 -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: Bruce wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:27:48 +0100, Casper.Dik-UdXhSnd/wVw wrote: Unless, of course, google is now sponsoring people to post such remarks; then it is fruitful for the person who tells you to use google? Are you

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs OpenSolaris (NOW: Read The ARCHIVES)

2010-02-04 Thread Bruce
- use it. Big deal. I say continue talking about anything you want to talk about. It's a free country. I am sure, just as you can find the answer to this That depends on which country you are in .. :-) -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-04 Thread Bruce
which one I have :-( -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] The Future of OpenSolaris Releases?

2010-02-03 Thread Bruce
has traditionally slipped releases over the years. -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] The Future of OpenSolaris Releases?

2010-02-03 Thread Bruce
browser for obvious reason. The choice of beta version of Firefox in 2009.06 is more of a balance No matter what version is included it will be rapidly out of date. And like many others I will update manually with pkgadd :-) -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-02-03 Thread Bruce
, I'm stuck on 111b then :-( How is this going to affect the Tosh M10 sold with OpenSolaris then once the next revision gets out ? -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-29 Thread Bruce Porter
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Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:05:41 +, Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote: Bruce Porter wrote: Hi, While ago I tried to jump from 111b to something around 129, but I run into: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12380 I can actually get as far as 129 (but slow boot

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce
Sun Studio only work on Solaris in the near future? Or is this already the case? :-P ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one

Re: [osol-discuss] UltraSPAR_K_

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce
SPARC. Anyone got a cached copy ? -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-26 Thread Bruce Porter
sys oce:* 0666 root sys dlpistub:* 0666 root sys qlc:* 0666 root sys emlxs:* 0666 root sys clone:ptmx 0666 root sys ---8 Thanks, Vita On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Bruce Porter wrote: Hi Bruce... This was certainly the relevant bug for me on my M10 with Intel graphics

[osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-25 Thread Bruce Porter
Ok, did the upgrade this morning from 111b to 131. 1st off, boot time now appears to be a lot quicker so an improvement over 124-130 from that POV :-) Unfortunately I still cannot get the GUI up (as has been the way since attempts to load 130). The system boots, GDM starts up, screen goes

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-25 Thread Bruce
disabled, Virtualbox is able to start 64 bit guests. Ah, ok, ta. Now I just need to get a recent version of Opensol working with the graphics :-) -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-25 Thread Bruce
leave VT-x enabled. With VT-x enabled and VT-d disabled, Virtualbox is able to start 64 bit guests. -- Bruce The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-25 Thread Bruce Porter
You'd have thought so but :-( br...@ytclaptop:/mnt/var/log$ ls -alrt total 147 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 2 2009-05-14 16:48 pool -rw--- 1 root sys 0 2009-05-14 16:48 authlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 2009-05-14 16:52 postrun.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3152 2009-11-20

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 - 111 to 131 upgrade issues - GDM fails, blank screen

2010-01-25 Thread Bruce Porter
On 01/25/10 07:04, Bruce Porter wrote: Ok, did the upgrade this morning from 111b to 131. 1st off, boot time now appears to be a lot quicker so an improvement over 124-130 from that POV :-) Unfortunately I still cannot get the GUI up (as has been the way since attempts to load 130

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-22 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:31:04 -0500, John Martin wrote: On 01/21/10 05:01 PM, Bruce wrote: I have a different DVD. hmmm, votes for I pull the DVD from the chassis and watch the results ? :-) I would also check the SBIOS settings for hardware virtualization (Virtualization

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-22 Thread Bruce - sdf
On 21/01/2010 20:31, John Martin wrote: On 01/21/10 03:12 PM, Bruce wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login A cold boot test on my M10 running b130: 10:20:40 power on 10:20:52 grub menu first appears 10:21:23

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-22 Thread Bruce
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:38:55 +, Bruce wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:31:04 -0500, John Martin wrote: On 01/21/10 05:01 PM, Bruce wrote: I have a different DVD. hmmm, votes for I pull the DVD from the chassis and watch the results ? :-) I would also check the SBIOS settings

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Bruce
). -- Bruce *(Emails to the posted address will be ignored)* The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly http://www.ytc1.co.uk ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:28 +, Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login I seem to recall a similar increase in build time, and a FW update of the DVD drive (of all things!) sorted it out

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:11:50 +, Bruce wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:28 +, Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login I seem to recall a similar increase in build time, and a FW update

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Bruce
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:31:24 -0500, John Martin wrote: On 01/21/10 03:12 PM, Bruce wrote: Bruce wrote: 1) Progressivly longer boot times snv_111b 2.5 mins to login snv_128 4.5 mins to login A cold boot test on my M10 running b130: 10:20:40 power on 10:20:52 grub menu first

Re: [osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 and B130

2010-01-04 Thread Bruce Porter
My Tosh M10 has been running 111b happily since September, for various reasons (main because I was using it to work) I did not upgrade. Over the break I tried an upgrade to b130, all I got was a *very* slow and painful boot time, some errors flashed passed about issues with xfs and then it

[osol-discuss] Toshiba M10 and B130

2010-01-03 Thread Bruce Porter
My Tosh M10 has been running 111b happily since September, for various reasons (main because I was using it to work) I did not upgrade. Over the break I tried an upgrade to b130, all I got was a *very* slow and painful boot time, some errors flashed passed about issues with xfs and then it

[osol-discuss] Shift Page-UP

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Bruce
Hi, In linux, I can press Shift Page-Up on the console to scroll back the page. This is handy when looking at log files on the console or output from tail -f *[**file] *. However, I cant seem to be able to do it in open-solaris. Can anyone tell me what the key sequence is Paul

[osol-discuss] desktop effects

2009-08-30 Thread bruce zarnsy
so i clicked on enable desktop effects and i now have a blank white screen and my cursor. i can control, alt, backspace to get to the login screen but when i log in i get the white screen. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] desktop effects

2009-08-30 Thread bruce zarnsy
thank you very much. i did as you instructed and now have my desktop back. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] php_mcrypt

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Bruce
Hi, Centos has an rpm called php_mcrypt and I am making the move to opensolaris. Can anyone tell me how I'd go about getting mcrypt and libmcrypt for php and apache on opensolaris ? I've been to mcrypt.sourceforge.net but ended up making a mess of things Paul

[osol-discuss] avahi-bridge-dsd

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Bruce
Hi, Everytime I start my full opensolaris version (having played with the Dev Stack for a while ) I get a warning that seems to stop X from starting , and the system goes into maintenance mode it says system/avahi-brudge-dsd: default failed fatally Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun joins the dark side :-D

2007-09-14 Thread Bruce Shaw
Micro$oft will simply release their own proprietary, incompatible products (remember ADS?) as new. ...and insist everybody follow their standard. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun joins the dark side :-D

2007-09-14 Thread Bruce Shaw
Oh, get real. History will simply repeat itself. It would also be quite useful if Microsoft deployed basic utility for ufs zfs too. Micro$oft will simply release their own proprietary, incompatible products (remember ADS?) as new. UFS- Microsoft's new UVFS (Universal File System) (crippled

Re: [osol-discuss] swat

2007-07-17 Thread Bruce Shaw
lisez cet article http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5106458 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tarik Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:56 PM To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [osol-discuss] swat Bnjour , j'ai un

[osol-discuss] Renaming local zone hostname

2007-07-06 Thread Bruce A. Hamilton
/etc/nsswitch.conf (defaults to bogus NIS stuff). --Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] multiprocessor sparc - ticks vs % CPU usage

2007-07-03 Thread Bruce Shaw
This is a response from Dave Shield on the net-snmp-users mailing list. Note, the net-snmp team (www.net-snmp.org) is releasing (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12694package_id= 11571release_id=510391) net-snmp version 5.4.1 in a fairly short timeframe. Testers

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sensor design doc now available

2007-06-12 Thread Bruce Shaw
Agreed and the sooner we start thinking about what we want to monitor and how the sooner we can define the namespace. If you have any ideas, I would like to hear them. For the how part, why not simply use SNMP. Sensor monitoring is included in net-snmp 5.4.1 (and other versions). It

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Bruce Shaw
You are probably assuming that your customers only use Solaris! Being one of your customers, stupid thing's like the backspace key not exhibiting the same results as every other device that we own is very annoying. You might find that your customer might celebrate rather than be annoyed if

RE: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver

2007-05-25 Thread Bruce Shaw
Provide source code for the Emulex Fibre Channel device driver that operates in the Leadville environment. I am not sure how is it counted now, that new rules are in effect, but here is my +1 to this proposal. Regards,Cyril I'm interested too, but I don't think I get to vote. This

[osol-discuss] DST and zoneinfo

2007-02-01 Thread Bruce Riddle
What can be or is being done to remove timezone updates, to not require a libc upgrade, and not force a reboot? With every timezone and political boundry out there, jumping on the bandwagon, this is a real PITA for the current production versions of Solaris!

[osol-discuss] CVS Meta Data included in source display

2007-01-28 Thread Bruce Furber
I have OpenGrok installed on Suse SLES10 It does not seem to be recognizing that the SRC_ROOT is a CVS repository Search return file names with the like this Util.java,v with the ,v and the CVS meta data included. head 1.1; branch 1.1.1; access ; symbols v3:1.1.1.1 vender:1.1.1;

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: home network design advice

2006-12-26 Thread Bruce Riddle
UNIX admin wrote: Although it should be technically possible to run a cable modem with a static IP address, I have never heard of, or seen such a setup. A cable modem UpLink is meant to be cheap access for the general consumer, not a professional setup. Which is why cable companies don't

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Bruce Riddle
Dennis Clarke wrote: How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say stop, no more please? I am curious about this and figured I'd toss it out here. I could spend a life time digging into The Magic Garden Explained or Solaris Internals as well as man pages but the only person that

RE: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: auditd audit_snmptrap plugi n

2006-10-19 Thread Bruce Shaw
Hello. I'm one of the core developers for net-snmp (www.net-snmp.org) (which was adopted by Sun for Solaris 10). I ran the idea past some of our gurus and got this response: I think it'd be better to attach the demon as an agentx sub agent rather than simply figure out how to parse our config

Re: [osol-discuss] Daylight Saving

2006-10-09 Thread Bruce Riddle
Thiago Sobral wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, please, I'm experincing some troubles with my daylight saving configuration. On Linux I've this: Rule Brazil 2006 only - Nov 05 00:00 1 S Rule Brazil 2007 only - Feb 25 00:00 0 - Zone Brazil/East -3:00 Brazil BR%sT this

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-02 Thread Bruce Riddle
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: Most of the projects fall under the category of 'useful but not really product level' tools. As far as I understand, people dealing with HPC, don't mind playing with useful tools, but they sure do appreciate having full blown products so they can concentrate on the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: From Linux to OpenSolaris

2006-10-02 Thread Bruce Riddle
First my apolgies for responding to the incorrect topic by Akhilesh. Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: Hi, The instructions are little cryptic. The instructions on the download/ON page refer to building a development system with all latest (as in nightly, bleeding edge) thingies installed. You can

[osol-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] all Solaris 8 9 patches not just the recommended once

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Edna Braun wrote: Hi, I need to find all available patches for Solaris 8 9 SPARC platforms. I have been able to find the recommended patches for both ( 8_Recommended.zip 9_Recommended.zip) but I want to get *all* of the patches and evaluate them one by one not just

Re: Possible work-around for HP DL385/585 run-time hang (was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fixed in NV:HP DL585, DL385 hanging on boot)

2006-09-02 Thread Bruce Riddle
= 0 If you try this workaround, please email me with the results of your attempt, whether adding the first line was adequate or not, etc. We appreciate this has been frustrating; we may be very close to a solution. Dana, Would you expect this workaround to also work on Solaris 10 6/06? Bruce

[osol-discuss] Re: Update on HP DL585, DL385 hanging on boot

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce Riddle
What about the hang while the machine is up? My DL585 hangs in just under 3-4 hours. I just started a log today to watch it closer, but I don't have ILO connected yet so I can't reboot it remotely. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Fixed in NV:HP DL585, DL385 hanging on boot

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce Riddle
I'm running into this as well on a HP DL585 running 10 6/06. My machine locks up after 2hours and 55 minutes of runtime. Every single time. I have - gone to a ttya console. - added set pci_autoconfig:pci_boot_debug=1 to /etc/system - set snooping=1 in /etc/system (although I don't know what

RE: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Bruce Shaw
Many of us are behind firewalls that block IRC packets due to justifiable security concerns. Any chance of a version that would get around this by doing the IRC-ing for us but give us an HTTP-based display? Note that if you are behind a firewall (like, sadly, Sun's), this applet will fail to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-30 Thread Bruce Riddle
Stephen Potter wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: So Oracle is a workstation application? Cadence and PTC Pro-Engineer are hardly what I would label as 'mainstream' software. You can't keep going around and redefining your question just because someone answered it. You asked for name 5 high

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: audio810 vs. auidoi810

2006-04-27 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, [UTF-8] Jürgen Keil wrote: vid1=0x4358, vid2=0x5430 OK, so this isn't one of the Analog Devices AC'97 codecs. The vendor id 0x4358 translates to Conexant, according to Linux alsa 1.0.10 sources. I found an old mail (August 2005) where someone with an Acer

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: audio810 vs. auidoi810

2006-04-26 Thread Bruce Riddle
Jürgen Keil wrote: I recently installed Build 37 on an HP nx9600 laptop. /usr/X11/bin/scanpci reports: pci bus 0x cardnum 0x1e function 0x02: vendor 0x8086 device 0x266e Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio controller Which is handled by the SUN supplied

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-04-26 Thread Bruce Riddle
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same as the Ferrari 4000. Also ATI Radeon PCI-E. Last night I had installed a Ferrari 4006, the new model. The screen did act slightly different, but a fix from Henry Zhao did get things working for me

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Riddle
Why is 6401605 no longer in the database? It is related to: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6406183 Which also is related to. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6413401 6328841 is related and is still there.

[osol-discuss] audio810 vs. auidoi810

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Riddle
I recently installed Build 37 on an HP nx9600 laptop. $ isainfo -v 64-bit amd64 applications cx16 mon sse3 pause sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 32-bit i386 applications cx16 mon sse3 pause sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu /usr/X11/bin/scanpci reports: pci bus

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: What's the best backup utility with user f riendlyGUI in Unix/Linux world?

2006-04-24 Thread Bruce Shaw
Did they ever solve the issue of creating _huge_ index/tracking files? No, not really. Index files are still a major headache. This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged information. Please

RE: [osol-discuss] What's the best backup utility with user frien dly GUI in Unix/Linux world?

2006-04-24 Thread Bruce Shaw
2) if you have some real cases to do file sync between two hosts or among several machines and the backup/restore may help in this kind of situation. I'm doing some off-site copies of ORACLE logs and fssnap of two RAIDs. This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-04-24 Thread Bruce Riddle
Bug ID Please. I was succesfull at booting Build37 on an HP NX9600: Basically it went like this. 1) - Boot with -kd options or -kvd option - From the Grub menu pointed at Solaris hit e e - append -kd to the kernel line - hit ENTER - then type b or hit ENTER again 2) - Under the

RE: [osol-discuss] What's the best backup utility with user frien dly GUI in Unix/Linux world?

2006-04-20 Thread Bruce Shaw
We're using Legato Networker. It takes a bit of getting used to, but we've never lost data. This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not

Re: [osol-discuss] Install SX on an HP nx6125

2006-04-18 Thread Bruce Riddle
. I'll try and dig it up later. Bruce ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Still Solaris Express Build 33 questions ...

2006-03-12 Thread Bruce Riddle
Nicolas Linkert wrote: I seem to be unable to install X. At the beginning of the install procedure I choose to install everything that is a available. In the middle of the installation - when the PC has rebootet for the 1st time - I get asked to insert the Language CD and then the Companion

[osol-discuss] Compaq/HP notebook issues

2006-02-28 Thread Bruce Riddle
How do we get traction on issues like? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5654tstart=0 I've been issued a potentially great Solaris x86 machine. However it is stuck at Build 16. 64bit Uadio works with a tweak from Juergen. 1GB RAM, GB ethernet, 1394, USB to beat the band.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express 2/06 Posted

2006-02-19 Thread Bruce Riddle
UNIX admin wrote: Hot off of the press: I just tried booting SX 2/06 on a Compaq Presario 900 laptop. Nice try, but no cigar! And while the kernel boots just fine, and while I can get into single user shell no problem, the install just hangs. -B acpi-user-options=0x2 doesn't make any

[osol-discuss] Compaq and HP notebooks

2006-02-19 Thread Bruce Riddle
There seems to be a an issue with the BIOS and possibly PCI-E on contemporary machines. What is being done about it? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5654tstart=0 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] TTY console and GUI console

2006-02-18 Thread Bruce Riddle
I just stumbled accross something quite wonderful. I can have both a TTY(B) console and a Graphic console at the same time. When did this sneak in? I am very happy to see this. I haven't BFUed the system since early January. ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-24 Thread Bruce Riddle
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 05:06 pm, Ben Rockwood wrote: I doubt anyone outside of those at Sun who work on bigadmin would have a problem putting that site out of business. Most of the stuff could be resubmitted, and all the content that is linked to BigAdmin from other

Re: [osol-discuss] ACPI PCI-E issues installing on HP NX9600 laptop

2006-01-16 Thread Bruce Riddle
Bruce Riddle wrote: I'm having no luck installing Solaris express on my HP nx9600. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12114_na/12114_na.HTML It is currently running Express Build 16 from ~06/05. I have subsequently tried to install 24,27,28 and now 30 with no luck. I've tried lots

[osol-discuss] ACPI PCI-E issues installing on HP NX9600 laptop

2006-01-15 Thread Bruce Riddle
notify() event2 on slot #2 I've booted with the -kd options, and it seems to hang at different points, and does not come back to the debugger. Unfortunatley there is not much to touch in the BIOS. I have upgraded to the latest available from the HP web site. Any suggestions? Bruce

Re: [osol-discuss] Idea for a nice OpenSolaris project - HCL client

2006-01-15 Thread Bruce Riddle
How about a really intelligent parser of prtconf -pv output. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Next Sol Express community edition?

2006-01-12 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Ben Miller wrote: Will there be Solaris Express Community edition ISOs of b30 put up? It looks like b28 is still currently up. If not what build will the next Community edition be and what determines which build ISOs are put up for? Karyn Ritter wrote that there

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build 29 or newer?

2006-01-11 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Karyn Ritter wrote: There was a legal issue with build 29. I don't have an exact ETA for new ISOs, but I think it will be early next week. I'm recommending that they just post 30. Let me know if you need 29: the timing is the

[osol-discuss] Build 29 or newer?

2006-01-10 Thread Bruce Riddle
I understand things get a little messed up from the Holidays but... Can we expect a newer set of ISO's anytime soon? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Appliances

2006-01-07 Thread Bruce Riddle
James Dickens wrote: On 1/6/06, Philip G. Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I blame ZFS for this one, but it was inevitable anyway. I love my Sun Cobalt Qube 3 to bits, but it is getting rather long in the tooth. A while back I migrated most of my home network services to Solaris 10 on my

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?

2005-12-28 Thread Bruce Riddle
Vincent Yau wrote: I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? I don't know if we have to wait a week. There seems to be an

[osol-discuss] SNMP and sensors

2005-12-22 Thread Bruce Shaw
I am one of the core developers for net-snmp (www.net-snmp.org). Those of you using Solaris 10+ know it as snmpd (as opposed to snmpdx). In recent versions of the software we have been attempting to allow SNMP queries of sensors, specifically fans, temperature sensors and voltages where this is

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: New to Solaris (admin side) so some questi ons.

2005-12-21 Thread Bruce Shaw
netstat -ni only gives you one reading. IIUC this is every error since the beginning (of time??). Shouldn't we be looking at something like netstat -ni 10 to see if there's ongoing issues? In any case, it means Simon has busted hardware somewhere - a bad cable, switch, router, nic etc. This

[osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Bruce Riddle
Is this the right place to discuss boot/install issues with the prebuilt distro's? Lots of trouble with snv_27a. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot issues with prebuit OpenSolaris

2005-11-21 Thread Bruce Riddle
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right place to discuss boot/install issues with the prebuilt distro's? Lots of trouble with snv_27a. I don't understand, I has no problems with SchilliX so far Well I haven't tried to install your distro

[osol-discuss] Jumpstart NV_27

2005-11-19 Thread Bruce Riddle
. Solaris Interactive (default) 2. Custom Jumpstart 3. Solaris Interactive Text (desktop session) .. Thanks, Bruce ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

RE: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Bruce Shaw
Well at least it won't require a Dysan Sphere sized data center! :-) You do realize when we go to quantum computing, the topology of the disk storage is no longer an issue, right? This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Bruce Riddle
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:00 pm, Bob Palowoda wrote: +1 also. To be politically correct, +1.;-) Talk about quirks the HP Compaq nx9600 Notebook PC runs in 64bit Solaris and now where on their spec page:

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd

[osol-discuss] Using Grub to switch between 32 and 64 bit

2005-07-27 Thread Bruce Riddle
Does anyone know how to set up GRUB to be able force Solaris to come up in 32 bit, or 64 bit? My entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst currently look like: #-- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT -- title Solaris 11 nv_16 X86 root (hd0,0,a) kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot module