[osol-help] Opensolaris 2009.6 and supermicro X8DT3-LN4F (NI

2010-02-12 Thread Nikola M.
On 02/12/10 09:58 AM, Paul Johnston wrote: > Funny I am on a Dell 620 and I had problems with 131 but fine with > 132 > SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris > > See http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122413&tstart=30 > I am on Dell Lattitude D620, Laptop. (131

[osol-help] When 2010.02 gonna be released?

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
BM wrote: > Actually see the subject. :-) The next planned release is 2010.03 in March, not 2010.02. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[osol-help] Having trouble getting a driver installed

2010-02-12 Thread Lance Beazley
Hi, Can somebody educate me on how to get a driver installed when the Driver Utility tool does not recognize the Vendor and Device ID of the device AND the driver isn't yet in the database apparently. The device I have is a SAS HBA which uses a PMC-Sierra PM8001 controller. The card is made b

[osol-help] networking questions

2010-02-12 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Michelle Knight (michelle at msknight.com) wrote: > I disable DHCP to give servers static IP so I always know where they > are. My home router doesn't allow me to define IP addresses to MAC > addresses, so static IP is the only way I can do it. > > However on 111b, if I use the GUI to assign a s

[osol-help] Package Manager crashes in snv_132

2010-02-12 Thread ?????? ???????
Solved in http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=14481 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Tom Whitten
Tom Whitten writes: > Hardeep Narwan writes: > > Hi All, > > > > I've just installed the latest version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 to hopefully > > find an OS that finally fits. Things look good so far. I just wanted to > > figure out if I can disable the grub menu during boot. I only have one > >

[osol-help] [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-12 Thread TMB
I have a similar question, I put together a cheapo RAID with four 1TB WD Black (7200) SATAs, in a 3TB RAIDZ1, and I added a 64GB OCZ Vertex SSD, with slice 0 (5GB) for ZIL and the rest of the SSD for cache: # zpool status dpool pool: dpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config:

[osol-help] networking questions

2010-02-12 Thread Michelle Knight
I disable DHCP to give servers static IP so I always know where they are. My home router doesn't allow me to define IP addresses to MAC addresses, so static IP is the only way I can do it. However on 111b, if I use the GUI to assign a static IP, then even though the network configuration screen

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Tom Whitten
Hardeep Narwan writes: > Hi All, > > I've just installed the latest version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 to hopefully > find an OS that finally fits. Things look good so far. I just wanted to > figure out if I can disable the grub menu during boot. I only have one > version there and it would be good

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Leslie H Wood
Change the menu.lst timeout line timeout 30 to timeout -1 It will pass straight through then Hardeep Narwan wrote, On 02/12/10 13:24: > Hi All, > > I've just installed the latest version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 to hopefully > find an OS that finally fits. Things look good so far. I jus

[osol-help] OS 5.11 on Gateway- no network

2010-02-12 Thread Jerry Parsi
For now i gave up on the 2 machines, I installed it on another machine and finally worked, however the wireless does not. The ath0 connects but it immediately times out with a dhcp failed to get an IP address. It works ok with the wired connection, so somehow the wireless has trouble. Any ideas

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Hardeep Narwan
thanks very much. Sorry about the dumb question but how would I go about changing that value? i cant seem to find the file menu.lst. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Christopher Schlacta
best to set it to something low, like 2 or 3, just in case you ever have a botched upgrade, etc. On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:30 , Leslie H Wood wrote: > Change the menu.lst timeout line > > timeout 30 > > to > > timeout -1 > > It will pass straight through then > > Hardeep Narwan wrote, On

[osol-help] Disable grub menu

2010-02-12 Thread Hardeep Narwan
Hi All, I've just installed the latest version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 to hopefully find an OS that finally fits. Things look good so far. I just wanted to figure out if I can disable the grub menu during boot. I only have one version there and it would be good to have the machine boot into Open

[osol-help] Package Manager crashes in snv_132

2010-02-12 Thread ?????? ???????
I just did a clean install of snv_132 and package manager keeps crashing. For example I select all JDK related packages quickly and I get this message: Error details: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/packagemanager", line 5816, in run_with_except_hook run_old(*rweh_args, **

[osol-help] vpn client from Opensoalris X86

2010-02-12 Thread Basabi Bhattacharya
I've found this link - http://wikis.sun.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=96404628 Looks like few people have tried this and I think worth a shot. From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM [alan.coopersm...@sun.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:13 AM To: B

[osol-help] vpn client from Opensoalris X86

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Basabi Bhattacharya wrote: > Would like to know if there is a VPN client for Opensoalris x86 for a free > download. VPN is not a standard protocol definition, but a type of service. You'd need a client for whatever VPN you use - Cisco's VPN is common but not the only flavor. > Sun used to provid

[osol-help] vpn client from Opensoalris X86

2010-02-12 Thread Basabi Bhattacharya
Would like to know if there is a VPN client for Opensoalris x86 for a free download. Sun used to provide this but I'm not sure if there was service agreement for that. Thanks

[osol-help] Using cell as modem

2010-02-12 Thread bug me not
Hi there, I recently decided to switch to any unix-based OS from windows. I chose opensolaris, I got its C.D. from my friend (and because I've got too slow internet, I can't really d/l ubuntu, fedora or any other linux distro). Installation of OpenSolaris went fine, but now I'm stuck while tryin

[osol-help] Opensolaris 2009.6 and supermicro X8DT3-LN4F (NI

2010-02-12 Thread Nikola M.
On 02/11/10 06:29 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > Personally, I would download the iso of the latest Build (132). A lot has > transpired since build 111b and it is a lot closer to the next "official" > release due out in March (unless delayed). > > Coupled with the fact that upgrading from 111b to dev

[osol-help] Opensolaris 2009.6 and supermicro X8DT3-LN4F (NI

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Funny I am on a Dell 620 and I had problems with 131 but fine with 132 SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris See http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122413&tstart=30 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org