Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris without grub

2009-10-20 Thread Emanuele Fontana
This is a good idea! Thanks! emanuele Joseph Mocker ha scritto: What he might be able to do is to reinstall his debian grub2 after the Solaris install, then set up a chainloader entry in debian/grub2 to boot opensolaris/grub and then opensolaris. installgrub on opensolaris should install

[osol-discuss] installing opensolaris without grub

2009-10-19 Thread Emanuele Fontana
Hello, this is a very newbie question, but I'd need a hint. My Hard Disk is partitioned as following: /dev/sda1 -- boot [primary] /dev/sda2 -- [extended] /dev/sda5 -- swap [logic] /dev/sda6 -- debian [logic] /dev/sda3 -- empty [primary] I'd like to install opensolaris (osol) in

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris without grub

2009-10-19 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
i dont think that's possible, solaris needs grub, and it needs solaris grub, because it's the only one that understand zfs On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Emanuele Fontana geol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, this is a very newbie question, but I'd need a hint. My Hard Disk is partitioned as

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris without grub

2009-10-19 Thread Joseph Mocker
What he might be able to do is to reinstall his debian grub2 after the Solaris install, then set up a chainloader entry in debian/grub2 to boot opensolaris/grub and then opensolaris. installgrub on opensolaris should install grub on both the MBR and the partition boot record, so he would have

[osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a P3 machine with 1GB RAM

2009-08-13 Thread L.Guruprasad
Hi all, I tried installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a P3 machine with 1GB RAM. But when the installation is started, in the second screen it asks me to select the disk to install OpenSolaris to, but no disks are displayed for me to choose. Is OpenSolaris installable on P3? Regards, Guruprasad

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a P3 machine with 1GB RAM

2009-08-13 Thread andrew
Hi all, I tried installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a P3 machine with 1GB RAM. But when the installation is started, in the second screen it asks me to select the disk to install OpenSolaris to, but no disks are displayed for me to choose. Is OpenSolaris installable on P3? Yes. This

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 on a P3 machine with 1GB RAM

2009-08-13 Thread L.Guruprasad
Hi, andrew wrote: Yes. This problem is usually caused my your hard disk controller not being supported by OpenSolaris. Can you run the Device Detection Tool on the desktop and see what it says about your disk controller? Yes, the Device driver utility shows the disk controller driver

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 t

2008-08-18 Thread Alan Steinberg
A couple of things that you need to know: 1) There is currently no SPARC version of OpenSolaris at this time. 2) OpenSolaris is a different release from Solaris Express Community Edition. You cannot upgrade from SXCE to OpenSolaris. -- Alan This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 t

2008-08-15 Thread Marc
Hi, uname -a SunOS ns1a 5.11 snv_94 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R sol-nv-B94-sparc-dvd.iso The upgrade I tried was called osol-0811-95.iso but that would not allow to do anything. # df / (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 ):50209260 blocks 3689703 files /devices (/devices

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 t

2008-08-15 Thread Ian Collins
Marc wrote: Hi, uname -a SunOS ns1a 5.11 snv_94 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R sol-nv-B94-sparc-dvd.iso The upgrade I tried was called osol-0811-95.iso but that would not allow to do anything. That looks suspiciously lice an OpenSolaris distro CD, not an SXCE one. If so, it

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone

2008-08-15 Thread Marc
Hi, Trying to find that but meanwhile is this correct? copy/b osol-0811-95.iso + md5sums md5sums_95.txt osol-0811-95a.iso or copy/b osol-0811-95.iso + md5sums_95.txt osol-0811-95a.iso This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trying to find that but meanwhile is this correct? copy/b osol-0811-95.iso + md5sums md5sums_95.txt osol-0811-95a.iso or copy/b osol-0811-95.iso + md5sums_95.txt

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone

2008-08-15 Thread Marc
Hi, Everything we do are on sun systems. (Sparc) Generally V240's and V440's The only thing I do with a windows box is burn cds/dvds and download files which then get transfered to a sun box After burning the image there are many files on the dvd. The -94 works fine and that has many files as

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 t

2008-08-15 Thread Marc
Hi, We were looking at the beadm and last night ran some nightly thing. After reading the notes on that Faster piece it seemed like a bad idea. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone

2008-08-15 Thread Ian Collins
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trying to find that but meanwhile is this correct? copy/b osol-0811-95.iso + md5sums md5sums_95.txt osol-0811-95a.iso or copy/b osol-0811-95.iso

[osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 to 95

2008-08-14 Thread Marc
Hi, Can we say complicated by all the versions and sub-versions some of which are way out dated. Why when I download a torrent B95.iso the system will not access the cd/dvd? Yet when I had the B94 it was fine (but that came from another area? Is one place to get the source too simplified? How

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris not easy-how does someone simply upgrade snv94 to 95

2008-08-14 Thread Seymour Krebs
taskman, provide a bit of info for folks to work with maybe. 1. post your output for uname -a 2. are you running a system installed from sxce that would be an .iso named something like sol-nv-b94-x86-dvd.iso or is it an opensolaris distribution named something like osol-0811-93.iso. 3.

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-08 Thread jean-francois simon
James Carlson wrote: jean-francois simon writes: can i install opensolaris on a sparc system? (ultraIII+ system)? how to i build the ISOs? Get a copy of Solaris Express Community Edition (SX:CE). There are links on this page: http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ The current

[osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-07 Thread jean-francois simon
hi, can i install opensolaris on a sparc system? (ultraIII+ system)? how to i build the ISOs? thx a lot -jfs This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
jean-francois simon writes: can i install opensolaris on a sparc system? (ultraIII+ system)? how to i build the ISOs? Get a copy of Solaris Express Community Edition (SX:CE). There are links on this page: http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ The current OpenSolaris distribution doesn't

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
jean-francois simon writes: The current OpenSolaris distribution doesn't support SPARC. But the SX:CE is built from essentially the same source code. thx a lot. i went to the page but can't doanload the 2GB sparc iso file...i get a 15 bytes files. any idea what i am doing wrong?

Re: [osol-discuss] installing OpenSolaris

2008-07-23 Thread Boris Derzhavets
I just did some googling with keywords:- Solaris on PowerEdge 2900 http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9889017 http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10269125 It might be an issue ( vs 2600). What controller (exactly) is installed on the box ? What is an exact Nevada Build or S10

[osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris was Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Personally, I don't see how OpenSolaris could receive its deserved attention (and respect) if no one outside the existing Solaris community can install it. I have to strongly disagree with you there. Yes, the hardware doesn't cover everything but

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris was Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Personally, I don't see how OpenSolaris could receive its deserved attention (and respect) if no one outside the existing Solaris community can install it. I have to strongly disagree with you

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris was Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: There is also another way to get OpenSolaris to almost everyone's hands which I have been advocating. That is with VMware (Virtual PC works too, but not as good). Once people start using it, they'll

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris was Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Andy Tucker
On 3/2/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also another way to get OpenSolaris to almost everyone's hands which I have been advocating. That is with VMware (Virtual PC works too, but not as good). Once people start using

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing OpenSolaris was Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/2/06, Andy Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also another way to get OpenSolaris to almost everyone's hands which I have been advocating. That is with VMware (Virtual PC works

[osol-discuss] Installing opensolaris

2006-01-14 Thread Serge Bornow
Hi Im trying to install open solaris , build 28, just downloaded it. I read that i need these two files: * opensolaris-bfu-DATE.PLATFORM.tar.bz Then download the ON-Specific Build Tools, named: * SUNWonbld-DATE.PLATFORM.tar.bz2 I saw that there is already a B30 , should i download for

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing opensolaris

2006-01-14 Thread Ian Collins
Serge Bornow wrote: Hi Im trying to install open solaris , build 28, just downloaded it. What exactly did you download? Do you want to just install the community release, or build the sources? Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing opensolaris

2006-01-14 Thread Bill Rushmore
This would be a good place to start: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/devref_toc/ On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:29, Serge Bornow wrote: Hi Im trying to install open solaris , build 28, just downloaded it. I read that i need these two files: * opensolaris-bfu-DATE.PLATFORM.tar.bz