Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-14 Thread Willem van Schaik
Last night I started playing with VirtualBox in an attempt to get it to run on a Cobalt Raq 4, running Redhat EL 3. ;-) Hey, it's all about "trying the impossible" . . . . I'm not out of the woods yet, but my next issue will be the choice of guest OS. Solaris 10 (preferably SXDE) would of cours

Re: [osol-discuss] "Indiana" review

2007-12-02 Thread Willem van Schaik
Personally I really like the /root thing. But, big but, that's only because I hate all those "/.ghatever" :) files in my root filesystem. And that just because the root user used a browser or some other GUI program. And that brings me to my main point, why would 'root' ever, ever use a browse

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris build 58

2007-11-26 Thread Willem van Schaik
Oops, just after hitting the send button, I see you mentioning "no internet". If that also means "no network" then please ignore my post. Willem Mladen Nikitovic wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dvd-image of the desired build, but infortunately the machine I'm > working with does only have a cd-play

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris build 58

2007-11-26 Thread Willem van Schaik
The way I've overcome the 'no DVD' problem in the past has been to lofi-mount your DVD iso on another server, exporting it through NFS and then do a network install. For that however, you still need to have CD number 1. Not sure if you can use a CD from a slightly different version. Willem M