Re: [osol-discuss] something about solaris 11 express license(OTN)

2010-11-21 Thread Oliver H. Weiergraeber
Hello everyone, I am just testing Solaris 11 Express on my Thinkpad. Installation runs smoothly, the system seems very responsive and has a nice professional look. Yes, I think Oracle engineers have done a really good job ;) And that is where the problem starts: I would like to use it as my

[osol-discuss] partition for user data

2009-05-24 Thread Oliver H. Weiergraeber
Hello, since I want to keep my user data from mixing with system files, I have always created a separate partition for user data (on other unix systems). What is the best way to accomplish this with opensolaris. Very annoyingly, the installer has no option to define zfs pools - this is really

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-17 Thread Oliver H. Weiergraeber
Of course you are right in that fingerprint readers are not ultimate security devices, but I think the crucial point is that it's not very nice to have hardware components which are just dead because the OS doesn't support them. Yes, I'm downloading the 2009.06 preview - but it's no fun with

[osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Oliver H. Weiergraeber
Hello, given that OpenSolaris 2008.11 had very significant improvements (great work indeed :)) in hardware support on current laptops, I am wondering what can be expected with the upcoming 2009.6 release. For my case (Thinkpad R61), these are the most interesting issues: 1. Support for Fn-Fx