Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread James Carlson
Glenn Lagasse writes: > Several of us have been working on fixing this for a few weeks now. > We're mostly 'there', just a few loose ends to tie up as it were. The > formal release of 2008.11 should install on systems with only 512M of > ram. Cool! -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* James Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Li Yuan writes: > > Hi, I am going to try open solaris, but I have to get more memory first. > > My questions are as follows. > >How forgiving is open solaris to times when the computer looses power. I > > know this can be a serious problem in windo

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread Casper . Dik
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> And there are some issues we need recognize: the root archive. > >True ... a single 'bootadm update-archive' is needed after the first >boot following an upgrade. For most ordinary users, kernel upgrades >are not so frequent that it's a serious hazard. > >(We should

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And there are some issues we need recognize: the root archive. True ... a single 'bootadm update-archive' is needed after the first boot following an upgrade. For most ordinary users, kernel upgrades are not so frequent that it's a serious hazard. (We should still do

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread Casper . Dik
>UFS (not used by default anymore) includes a transaction logging >feature that's enabled by default. This also protects against >corruption in case of failure. Well, it's not as good (my a long shot) as ZFS; UFS logs meta changes, not the file content; having proper inodes but not the proper d

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread James Carlson
Li Yuan writes: > Hi, I am going to try open solaris, but I have to get more memory first. > My questions are as follows. >How forgiving is open solaris to times when the computer looses power. I > know this can be a serious problem in windows, but I have had no problem when > this happened w

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-13 Thread Jedy Wang
Please refer to bug http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3597 for memory requirement of 2008.11. Regards, Jedy On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 07:28 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anybody can answer the first two questions in the attached mail? > > Thanks, > Li > email message attac

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-13 Thread Li Yuan
Hi, Is there anybody can answer the first two questions in the attached mail? Thanks, Li --- Begin Message --- Hi, I am going to try open solaris, but I have to get more memory first. My questions are as follows. How forgiving is open solaris to times when the computer looses power. I know t