Re: [osol-discuss] Thoughts/problems with install on MacPro with SXCE-105

2009-02-09 Thread John Kaitschuck
Have you tried an upgrade? That would be one way to see if the problem is with the b105 code base or with the installer. Yes, I did get it upgraded to B105, so it looks like an installer issue to me. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Thoughts/problems with install on MacPro with SXCE-105

2009-01-19 Thread John Kaitschuck
Hello, I have encountered a problem booting the install DVD for SXCE-105 on a MacPro, which happily allowed me to install from a DVD with SXCE-99, has anyone encountered this problem? It seemingly hangs after trying to identify the UART chip. It worked perfectly for B99. I googled around the

Re: [osol-discuss] Thoughts/problems with install on MacPro with SXCE-105

2009-01-19 Thread John Kaitschuck
Have you tried an upgrade? That would be one way to see if the problem is with the b105 code base or with the installer. -- Ian. Yes, I did an upgrade, via bfu, to b105 that works/boots fine, so I suspect there is some issue in the installer. If someone can give me some directions, on

[osol-discuss] Dell D620, Broadcom NIC and B62 a Losing Combination?

2007-04-30 Thread John Kaitschuck
I have B62 with a Dell Latitude Laptop, model D620 and can not seem to get the Broadcom Ethernet on board interface to work. What I have done... [a] To get B62 to install I had to boot disable-bge=true. Once installed the drivers for bge show up under /dev/bge but are inactive. [b] I have

Re: [osol-discuss] SVOSUG - Postgres Solaris/OpenSolaris - Thurs. June 22nd 7:30pm SCA03

2006-06-22 Thread John Kaitschuck
Alan DuBoff wrote: This month at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris user group we have Josh Berkus speaking on the Postgres database and how it relates to Solaris/OpenSolaris. Postgres has been added into Solaris/OpenSolaris, which some folks are not aware of yet. It is now included in both

[osol-discuss] Slides for SVOSUG....

2006-03-07 Thread John Kaitschuck
I have noticed that on the SVOSUG page - http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/svosug/ That the videos are sometimes hard to follow slide wise with lighting issues, etc. While I appreciate the videos I was wondering if PDF files of the slides sets could be posted there as well?

[osol-discuss] Slides for SVOSUG....

2006-03-07 Thread John Kaitschuck
I have noticed that on the SVOSUG page - http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/svosug/ that the videos are sometimes hard to follow, slide wise, with lighting issues, etc. While I appreciate the videos I was wondering if PDF files of the slides sets could be posted there as well?

[osol-discuss] Slides for SVOSUG....

2006-03-06 Thread John Kaitschuck
I have noticed that on the SVOSUG page - http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/svosug/ That the videos are sometimes hard to follow slide wise with lighting issues, etc. While I appreciate the videos I was wondering if PDF files of the slides sets could be posted there as well?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Cheap SPARC development machine ?

2006-02-27 Thread John Kaitschuck
Stephen Potter wrote: Ian wrote: Well to answer the original question, the prices of the dual core Opteron 100 serial are close to the equivalent X2 part, so sun should offer the Ultra 20 with dual core CPUs. I don't know what wholesale prices are like, but from a retail perspective, the