[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
s0: flags wm, /, sizeof(s2 - (s1 + s7) s1: flags wu, swap, sizeof(RAM + 64MB) s2: don't touch s7: flags wu, 64.00MB (for metadb) I also prefer this kind of layout. But I think one should add a comment concerning this. There exists an issue in Solaris 9 (IIRC) where you cannot mirror the

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread UNIX admin
No slice for Live Upgrade? Sure, if you can afford that much disk space. Remember though, this seems to be geared towards newbs. And a newb most likely won't even know that Solaris can do a live upgrade, let alone how to do it. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread UNIX admin
I also prefer this kind of layout. But I think one should add a comment concerning this. There exists an issue in Solaris 9 (IIRC) where you cannot mirror the root slice after having setup the filesystem if the slice contains track 0 of the disk. Because of this I prefer placing the swap

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread Ian Collins
UNIX admin wrote: No slice for Live Upgrade? Sure, if you can afford that much disk space. Remember though, this seems to be geared towards newbs. And a newb most likely won't even know that Solaris can do a live upgrade, let alone how to do it. Better to learn *before* they

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
After trying to remember which Solaris release it was, I now remeber that mirroring itself hadn't been the issue. The issue was that live-upgrade was unable to install the boot block on the alternate boot environment in such a scenario. But there were some edge conditions which I don't remember

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
UNIX admin wrote: No slice for Live Upgrade? Sure, if you can afford that much disk space. Remember though, this seems to be geared towards newbs. And a newb most likely won't even know that Solaris can do a live upgrade, let alone how to do it. Better to learn *before* they install

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-10 Thread a b
hold on a sec ... http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-063.html That thing there is my principal sin ? What if I were to back up a few steps to here : http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-061.html Then I diverge the path into two alternate methods for setting up the disk.

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-10 Thread William D. Hathaway
No slice for Live Upgrade? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
This is for review. goto : http://www.blastwave.org/docs/index.html select doc BLS-0061 A lot of the pages were written when I was getting tired and there will be errors. At the very least some dry humour and possibly rambling. The topic or index page is still being written. It

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bob Palowoda wrote: I like the comparison of Xsun to Windows 98. Fortunately Xsun kdmconfig will finally be gone from the x86 installer in S10U4, much as they already are on Nevada/Express. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
Bob Palowoda wrote: I like the comparison of Xsun to Windows 98. Fortunately Xsun kdmconfig will finally be gone from the x86 installer in S10U4, much as they already are on Nevada/Express. when is U4 due out ? I'll have to rewrite this thing when it ships. :-\ As it stands .. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: Bob Palowoda wrote: I like the comparison of Xsun to Windows 98. Fortunately Xsun kdmconfig will finally be gone from the x86 installer in S10U4, much as they already are on Nevada/Express. when is U4 due out ? Summertime. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: As it stands .. I have to rewrite it now. The contents looks like it was written by me. That may not fly too well with some readers and it gives the whole document a community feel to it. Not very professional if you know what I mean. I wouldn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: As it stands .. I have to rewrite it now. The contents looks like it was written by me. That may not fly too well with some readers and it gives the whole document a community feel to it. Not very professional if you know what I mean. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Jerry Sutton
Is adoption of the Xorg server considered a technical advance - generally a good thing? Will Xsun remain for sparc? Yes I understand I have a far better chance of timely Xorg support for arbitrary commodity hardware. I've read some negative press about the Xorg server as compared to Xsun

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jerry Sutton wrote: Is adoption of the Xorg server considered a technical advance - generally a good thing? Yes. Will Xsun remain for sparc? Only for a while - the announcement of it's end of life should be in the next Solaris 10 update release notes. SPARC graphics Sun Ray are working

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread UNIX admin
This is for review. goto : http://www.blastwave.org/docs/index.html select doc BLS-0061 A lot of the pages were written when I was getting tired and there will be errors. At the very least some dry humour and possibly rambling. The topic or index page is still being written. It

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
This is for review. goto : http://www.blastwave.org/docs/index.html select doc BLS-0061 A lot of the pages were written when I was getting tired and there will be errors. At the very least some dry humour and possibly rambling. The topic or index page is still being written. It