Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-28 Thread Shawn Walker
Jürgen Keil wrote: I can't say with certainty, but from my own experience, it is very tolerant of hardware changes. Are you saying that you can boot from the same root filesystem as you used in the other system? With zfs boot / root it sometimes works: when the boot / root disk can be found by

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-28 Thread Shawn Walker
casper@sun.com wrote: I can't say with certainty, but from my own experience, it is very tolerant of hardware changes. Are you saying that you can boot from the same root filesystem as you used in the other system? Correct. My experience is different; you can boot failsafe but you ne

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>The hostname.* issue can be avoided by using nwam >(default in OpenSolaris / Indiana). Except that it only works in simple situations. I.e., not if you use the system as a home server (dhcp server, multiple internet connection) and it doesn't work with a ipfilter, etc. As we're not talking a

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
> >I can't say with certainty, but from my own experience, it is very > >tolerant of hardware changes. > > Are you saying that you can boot from the same root filesystem as you used > in the other system? With zfs boot / root it sometimes works: when the boot / root disk can be found by devid.

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-28 Thread Casper . Dik
>I can't say with certainty, but from my own experience, it is very >tolerant of hardware changes. Are you saying that you can boot from the same root filesystem as you used in the other system? My experience is different; you can boot failsafe but you need to rebuild /etc/path_to_inst and ch

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-27 Thread Ian Collins
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: thanks for the replies, gentlemen. yes, the 'outlier' issue is really the crux of it. while this isn't bad motherboard, neither is it enterprise-grade. i'm reasonably happy with the performance, so i really should just buy a spare of the mobo, and for the most part that

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-27 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
thanks for the replies, gentlemen. yes, the 'outlier' issue is really the crux of it. while this isn't bad motherboard, neither is it enterprise-grade. i'm reasonably happy with the performance, so i really should just buy a spare of the mobo, and for the most part that covers me. sure - it's po

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-27 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
do i have to get ahold of an exactly identical mobo, or will osol tolerate a mobo by a different manufacturer, but with the same chipset... or would it refuse to even boot? should i just bear the pain of buying an identical spare mobo, cpu, ram, psu, so that i'm ready should the worst happen?

Re: [osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: background: my vocation and avocation since 1994 has been unix systems administrator. i've been running solaris on SPARC hardware all this time. my home server, which does email, webhosting, etc for a bunch of friends and family, has until recently been a Netra T1 10

[osol-discuss] how tolerant is osol of base hardware changes?

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
background: my vocation and avocation since 1994 has been unix systems administrator. i've been running solaris on SPARC hardware all this time. my home server, which does email, webhosting, etc for a bunch of friends and family, has until recently been a Netra T1 105 with D130 array. it sucked