Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Shannon
Dave Uhring wrote: >> Already did that. It helps a little but it's still unusable. Same goes for >> thunderbird. It's the >> whole window system that is malfunctioning. Switching between workspaces is >> a 5 second >> operation. Machine is Ferrari 4000 with 2GB and fresh install of 2008.11 b86 >

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Gress
Bill Shannon wrote: > On a different but related topic... > > I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), > but when I try to boot on an old Dell 4550 it fails in a different way > each time I try - sometimes disk errors, sometimes some problem with some > service, some

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Uhring
> I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), The osol-0811-98-global.iso is ~661 MB in size. I'm sure than any packages it may be missing can be added after installation. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Shannon
Dave Uhring wrote: >> I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), > > The osol-0811-98-global.iso is ~661 MB in size. Not the one I downloaded: $ ls -l osol-0811-98.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 shannon uucp 783020032 2008-09-20 17:13 osol-0811-98.iso I didn't think I need s

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Gress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I've noticed on an old laptop I had is that it couldn't read > DVD +. I had to reburn it on a DVD -. Again, the very first DVD > readers did not read DVD + format, which is almost forgotten today. My experiences with DVD+RW read compatibility

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Uhring
> I didn't think I need support for all languages. Was that my mistake? Not a mistake at all. You wrote: >> I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), and I merely showed that there does exist a CD-size image. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-25 Thread Shawn Protsman
> Bill Shannon wrote: >> >> I'm going to try installing 2008.05 and upgrade my way to snv_98. I've just installed 2008.05 inside VMware Fusion. Previously I was using the old SXDE. Now, I'd like to update the system and get the dev tools installed but I'm not sure how. If someone can point me

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-25 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Shawn, Shawn Protsman píše v čt 25. 09. 2008 v 11:52 -0700: > > Bill Shannon wrote: > >> > >> I'm going to try installing 2008.05 and upgrade my way to snv_98. > > I've just installed 2008.05 inside VMware Fusion. Previously I was > using the old SXDE. Now, I'd like to update the system a

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-25 Thread Dave Miner
Dave Uhring wrote: >> I downloaded the snv_98 iso, burned it to DVD (it wouldn't fit on a CD), > > The osol-0811-98-global.iso is ~661 MB in size. I'm sure than any packages > it may be > missing can be added after installation. There are no missing packages; the difference is that the glob

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_98 iso

2008-09-25 Thread Shawn Protsman
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > Shawn Protsman píše v čt 25. 09. 2008 v 11:52 -0700: >>> Bill Shannon wrote: I'm going to try installing 2008.05 and upgrade my way to snv_98. >> >> I've just installed 2008.05 inside VMware Fusion. Previously I was >> usin