Isn't part of the holdup for ZFS boot that SPARC new boot architecture that
just got putback: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/newboot_sparc
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Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:
I disagree, I suspect many people have unsubscribed because of the
unacceptable S/N ratio, and as a result we no longer have any good way
You can count me in that bunch. I know I'm missing important
Sean Sprague wrote:
You should get out more! But watch out for the potters ;-)
Hey! We're not so bad! Just because that Rowling lady decided to make
us look bad with those witches James and Lily and family. :-)
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Oh yeah? Have you seen e-ink? :-)
http://www.eink.com/technology/flexible.html
Stephen Potter wrote:
I never had such a dream; I like paper. A screen doesn't look like
paper. A screen doesn't smell like paper. A screen can't be easily
folded up and taken with you
than trying to
pull up two screens or have to constantly switch between two windows.
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I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two
useless men are a law firm
by the IRS.
Is OpenSolaris a separate legal entity from Sun? Is it a registered
not-for-profit or charity? Or, irregardless of the charter and
upcoming constitution, is it legally entangled with Sun?
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the concerns that OpenSolaris is
still controlled by Sun. Right now, Sun could (theoretically) pull
the cord on the project, and although the code would still be out there,
it would have nowhere to go, unless another community member picked it up.
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Darren J Moffat wrote:
I can't easily follow what your proposal is actually trying to say, can
you write it out in prose rather than as a table.
I think the crux of the contribution is financial in this particular case.
Since there is no OpenSolaris corporation, and all current funding comes
I don't play in OpenSolaris because I'm not a developer anymore, but I
sure envy the folks that do, and I am thrilled that so many of us who
'were there then' are out there playing now, too. It makes us that much
stronger.
Chris-
There's no reason not to play in OpenSolaris, even if you
Bernd Schemmer wrote:
But I still can't find where to download the Logical Domains Manager 1.0
software.
Any clues?
It has not been publicly released yet.
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Stephen Potter wrote:
Some of the UG forums are in the process of being overrun by a spam
message that started being posted this morning. Is there anyone who can
catch what is happening and stop them? For example, check out both
ug-chmosug and ug-cosug
Thanks
Some of the UG forums are in the process of being overrun by a spam message
that started being posted this morning. Is there anyone who can catch what is
happening and stop them? For example, check out both ug-chmosug and ug-cosug
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The tool should at least *run* on nevada, even if it can't be kept up to date
with all the drivers that are in nevada. To try and start this and be told
that it only runs on Solaris 10 (along with Linux and Windows) is
disconcerting when trying to get nevada working.
This message posted
Just on a guess, it's probably based on your IP address. If your IP block is
listed as being in the US, even if you aren't, it may well show you as being in
the US.
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, to see all my blogs as I'm working my way
through things).
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Finally skipped nge0, but it took a lot longer than I normally expect. I also
realized that the other timers didn't seem to be running normal speed.
However, I'm now into the installation and most everything seems to be defined
correctly. It's actually installing, and I hope I didn't screw up
Rather than continuing to reply to myself and filling people's mailboxes,
please check out http://lopsa.org/blog/2 (I got nv 50 up, graphics work, nge
works).
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Haven't gotten far enough to see that error yet; so far I've tried booting
BeleniX 0.5 just normally. As the second stage is loading, I get the following
warning
asy0: UART @ 2f8 scratch register: expected 0x5a, got 0xff
Cannot identify UART chip @ 2f8
Then it goes to keyboard layout (I give
Strange.. if I add this, I get a disk read error:
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix -B acpi-user-options=2 -kv -m
verbose -B disable-ath=true
Error 25: Disk read error
Press any key to continue...
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Interesting tool. It would be really cool if this tool supported Nevada and
could say if a driver had been added since a specific Nevada build.
Coincidentally, I just bought myself a new Acer Aspire 9300 laptop. It's a
Turion X2 based system with nVidia Gforce GO 6100 based graphics.
I know this is kind of late in responding, but did you check to see what the
error was in the mysql log that was causing mysqld to continually error out?
mysql logs are generally in /var/log or /var/adm.
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Due to a respin, SXCR build 48 will be available on Monday (9/25) rather
than Friday (9/22) as scheduled. Just wanted to give you all a heads up.
Awww, and I was looking forward to spending my birthday (tomorrow, 9/23)
upgrading my development box, which I haven't touched since b42 or so. Oh
In the past, you needed a newer version of libxml than what shipped on Solaris.
I don't know offhand (and can't check right this moment), if the Solaris 10
libxml has been upgraded or not. Try downloading a newer version of libxml
from xmlsoft.org, compiling and installing that.
-spp
Personally I think it is entirely correct to ask the original question on
OpenSolaris.org. Sun are making lots of noise about how they are opening up
their
development process, so I think it is entirely feasible that something like a
product
roadmap could be made available via this
[Quote Darren Moffitt]
To get this question answered you need to talk to your Sun sales person.
Which,unfortunately, will probably not get you much. I've worked with dozens
of salesmen from Sun at various different clients of all sizes (my current
company is one of Sun's Top 10 clients), and
[Quote James McPherson]
It certainly does, and I've ordered one myself:
Oh, what I wouldn't give for a spare $1375 (after my discount) for the medium
M2 model... Somehow, I don't see the wife buying into that though... :-(
-spp
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Dan Price wrote:
And then to pick up an oss-bite-size bug and work on it:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/
I can vouch for this. I am the epitome of a newbie; I haven't really
coded any C since college over a decade ago. I started out this way and
have about half a
hi,
I need some driver for opensolaris or belenix that do not exist currently...
What driver specifically do you need. There are a large number of drivers
available on the net, but not necessarily built into any of the current
distibutions.
but if wmware esx abstract the hardware and has
Not thrilled with the name Gardeners as it almost seems backwards from what
the charter is. However, +1 to the overall idea.
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You might want to check out Steven Lau's blog about this subject and what all
the different names are at http://www.whacked.net/2005/06/21/confused-so-was-i/
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How exactly are you trying to do the upgrade? If you have an existing Solaris
8 install on your system, when you put in the Solaris 10 CD1 (or DVD), it
should recognize it and automatically ask if you want to upgrade.
Another option, if you have free partitions or another free disk, would be
The fact that its on a console or terminal session is just another slap
in the face to the human. Really I should just be able to sit back 20 feet
and then say, as in speak, at my computer and say make me an ISO9660 image
of the files in /export/zfs/foo and make sure that Windows users can
so the name Nevada was chosen to represent the next version. [...] A
neutral
name like Nevada avoids betting marketing won't change their mind before
release.
If the community is going to be ON (which I'm not thrilled with; I'd rather see
it called something a little less esoteric), then
Your question seems a bit garbled. It sounds like you are saying you don't
have a service plan and that you want the patches that are only available with
a service plan. In other words, you're asking to steal the service that Sun
has put in place to enable you to have a free OS. Am I
Rainer and I are not feeling the love. ;-)
Between us, we have 13 contributions that are at or approaching the 90 day
mark. And at least one of mine is so simple, it's a one character change to a
comment, just to clean up the bug database...
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Casper wrote:
I was codified in the X/Open Unix specifications.
*You* were codified? That does explain many things about you; all good of
course. ;-)
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The ZFS boot and Install project is responsible for providing install,
boot, and root support for ZFS filesystems on Solaris. This project is
still in the development phase and therefore unavailable to the
OpenSolaris community. Without community exposure,
we believe that we will be
Seems quite reasonable; +1.
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Is anyone planning to blog on the 14th? I'm
trying to gauge the apparent lack of interest...
This is a good idea, and I'm planning on coming up with something for that day.
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I've installed Solaris 8 x86 on my laptop Amilo PRO
V8010 but I can't access the X-Window.
Solaris 8? Why would you still be using 8? Go download the most recent
Express release and give that a try. These lists (including opensolaris-help)
are geared towards OpenSolaris, the open source
Sorry if there's a better place to ask, but is
anyone using Nevada b40 on an x4100?
You'll probably find more help on the opensolaris-help list, rather than the
general purpose opensolaris-discuss list.
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+1
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environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris)
The other discussion in this thread notwithstanding,
I think PostgreSQL would be the better database to mention.
I can't seem to get anything that works with PostgreSQL
APPS, PAPS, SPAP, SAPP
I guess SPAR (Solaris, PostgreSQL,
Matt Ingenthron wrote:
Sara Dornsife wrote:
How about Turn up your environment with AMPS?
Stephen Potter wrote:
Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS
(Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris)
Seems it's been done before, I just stumbled across this page:
http://www.sun.com
Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache
MySQL, PHP, Solaris)
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new hardware. If the
linuxes and Windows of the world can do it; surely we can figure a way
for the great Solaris to do it as well.
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I have come to the conclusion that one useless man
accross the valley, bring a checkbook and
an engineer for a given amount of time.
I believe several people have already mentioned that this has been tried.
My response was aimed at Matty's redefinition of the question he asked.
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Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
What Sun wants are millions of developers to port to Solaris x86 out of
the goodness of their own heart - newsflash, the world doens't work that
way, people port when either they see the possibility of cash rolling
in, or when the CEO pays a visit to pay for the porting.
So if you're going to be going that route, can we
just have the rest of the IRIX 6.5 brought over into
Solaris as well?
I think I've mentioned before that SGI can probably be bought for slightly more
than a song. There's a couple of technologies that might be worth the cost to
Sun.
-spp
much in liquidation mode, and can be
picked up in pieces. There's a total negative equity of about $250m; not
overly huge.
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I have come to the conclusion that one useless man
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 profile, main stream,
To a new Solaris user that comes from other OS, (s)he may
find it bothersome not to find the device after a normal system
reboot has performed. Then they will ask, what is the problem
with Solaris?
I agree, if there is a way for the guru to turn off auto-reconfig when they
want. This seems
a much
wider usage opportunity if we can remove some of those limitations.
Thanks for adding to that evidence!
I plan to be involved in these efforts!
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I have come to the conclusion
+1; everything I've seen in this thread says community.
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5.11 (Nevada) is development; there are no patches. To get patches, you
upgrade to the newest bi-weekly release. There's a tool (BFU) that will allow
you to do a non-destructive upgrade, or you can just do a clean install.
If you want stability and patches, look to Solaris 10.
-spp
This
Yes, hello. That's what JumpStart(TM) is for. The
unfortunate thing is, it takes a high level of
technical skill end experience to configure it, but
it does central administration -- automatically.
Now, if only zones were configurable through the jumpstart mechanism. And, if
only WANboot
The only company that ever managed to achieve close
to a 100% GUI --- UNIX intergration was SGI with
their IRIX 6.5.x operating environment (not an
operating system, but an operating environment).
Hmm SGI is in Chapter 11. They can probably be picked up for a song; or
not more than USD
I'd prefer to keep a separate shells mailing list.
I wouldn't consider it a project, more of a discussion group,
so I don't think any source code repository would be needed.
Actual changes to the shells that result from the discussions
could get in via the request-sponsor alias.
This feels
Give me a nicely integrated KDE/Xorg experience like
I'm having now with my FreeBSD/KDE 3.5.2/Xorg 6.9,
I'll happy locate the hole I crawled out of, and migrate
back to that location.
Perhaps since you already have your integrated experience
Matty, your tone comes across very
or a routine that parses /etc/termcap and retrieves
the correct escape sequence...but probably masssive overkill
Why reinvent the wheel? Use lib[x]curses.
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What happened to the Solaris on zSeries project?
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Alan Duboff writes:
On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:14 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner
wrote:
Good question, no body knows; wasn't it almost a
year ago, we heard a big wig at SUN exclaim that
IBM should work with SUN to port Solaris to POWER?
then was much chest beating about porting
OpenSolaris to
Is there an issue with using the normal bug system? Is there a reason to have
a special separate bug tool for projects? Won't that create confusion as to
where the proper place to open a bug is? And how will those bugs get
transferred to the main system when the code is integrated?
-spp
The subject line is halfway to useless anyway,
because most people on the various opensolaris
maillists happily changes the subject of the
message itself without changing the subject line.
So, are we looking for a technical solution to a
user problem? Hardly ever works. How about
working
I'm not sure I understand your question. ZFS is a local filesystem, not a
network filesystem (like NFS or CIFS). Are you asking what the ramifications
of sharing a ZFS filesystem via NFS are?
Or are you looking to do some kind of interesting SAN replication trick with
symmetric remote
All Solaris, including OpenSolaris, is supported on X86 as well as SPARC. The
major community distributions (SchilliX, BeliniX, and Nexenta) all have a
LiveCD that can be used to test out OpenSolaris on any box you want.
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the latest and greatest.
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Even if Sun were to move to just using Fujitsu SPARC-64 chips, they're still
SPARC, so the U45 is still a good choice. Obviously Sun is going to go away
from the US-IIIi processor eventually (I don't think the roadmaps are too
secret, are they), they've already got the US-IV/US-IV+ and the T1
Agreed which is why in Solaris 10 1/06 it doesn't
actually boot the zone if it's not running - instead, it
mounts the zone's file systems and patches them
without bring the zone up to single-user mode.
A welcome, new change I was unaware of. I don't get to
play with normal distributions
What does he propose should be done? If they are
virtual servers as he puts it, would he prefer he
has to go to each one and patch them one by one by
hand? How is that any less painful than waiting on
pkgadd to up/down zones without user interaction. I
know which I'd choose.
This is one
Interesting. Would you be satisfied if the main Discussion list
didn't display the secondary lists of these communities, or are you
really requesting that the aliases be deleted?
There are many UG and i18n forum groups that have never had a post (except the
welcome message). They tend to
I am trying to mail myself some logs from a Solaris 8
machine. I am getting some errors though. Below is
the error: (I have replaced email address/domain)
This really isn't appropriate for the OpenSolaris-discuss forum, a mailing list
designed for discussion of the Open Source Open Solaris
++casper, or another +1.
Where I work, it is difficult to get open source from somewhere other than the
CCD. Unless it is bundled with Solaris, it is somehow seen as less official
and has to go through multiple hoops. If this dicussion leads to the CCD as
simply being a snapshot of
dminer writes:
I don't see why any of them would have wanted to endorse
the Companion up 'til now, given its unclear future.
Maybe this discussion list will be the nexus for putting a nail in the coffin.
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pry one loose in the next couple of weeks.
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Is there any reason for sendmail to be running during an install? Wouldn't a
better fix be to turn off sendmail?
The dtterm -C issues needs fixed as well, of course, but there's really two
problems here.
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You're only supposed to go through installing from
CD/DVD once, then create a Flash(TM) archive and
install from the network afterwards.
That's great for those of us in a networked, enterprise environment. For Joe
R. User installing on his home PC, that's not really an option.
I have
I did this just the other day, for most of the reasons you mentioned. My wife
finally made me give up my old Solaris test box (an Athlon 1200) so she could
get the kids and their games off her computer. I'm thinking of getting a new
X2 based system, but in the interest of family harmony I'm
I can set up mirroring within 45 seconds, blindfolded
with both hands tied behind my back:
I could barely read through this in 45 seconds, let alone type it and run it,
and hope to not make typos at every step along the way.
metadb -a -f -c 3 c0d0s7 c1d0s7
SVM is the only volume manager
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
Opteron DC processors
Bill Rushmore wrote:
I think my setup is fairly common for Solaris developers, some fast
x86/64 systems for day to day development work and an old Sparc box for
pre-deployment testing and finding the occasional bug that x86 tools
can't flush. I can't really find a reason the use Sparc as
My experience is with patches rather than packages,
but I'm sure I'd be able to offer some advice on how
not to shoot yourself in the foot with packages
also!
Rob, I'd add to your list:
* How do I update my packages?
Along a similar line (although we seem to be focused on packages)
* How
Why not just do all your backups from the root zone?
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The way it shows up on the web forum, I thought it was Al questioning about
Rich doing an install! ;-)
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It is certainly possible to upgrade without any problems. A better question is
whether or not you will encounter any problems with your upgrade. And the
answer to that would require knowing your configuration and applications. If
you can provide us with more details as to what you are
I would certainly be interested in seeing this. My company is moving to using
NetSNMP and we have a very large Solaris base (close to 10,000 instances).
This level of detail would be very useful to us and allow us to significantly
simplify our environment.
I'll pass this thread over to our
Solaris sparc uses the 8 slice variant in order to be compatible with
SunOS-4.x.
There is no need to do this for PPC, except if you like to be able to mount
disks
from Solaris/sparc systems _before_ Solaris has been upgraded to include
generic
partitionhandling code.
Wow, still
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