[osol-help] Considering buying E10K...

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew Doughty
Hi all, As a non-Sun expert, I am considering buying an E10K as a file server for a business. It would come with a StorEdge with 12 x 73GB drives. Could anyone please advise how difficult it would be to install openSolaris, and what the major differences would be in running between

Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...

2008-02-06 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Matthew, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 03:16 -0800, Matthew Doughty wrote: As a non-Sun expert, I am considering buying an E10K as a file server for a business. The E10K was a very (very) large machine that's actually now quite outdated now (it was originally sold with up to 64 400mhz processors! -

Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...

2008-02-06 Thread Ether.pt
Hi, For fileserver a E10k system? How much I/O do you need? Most likely what I would advice, it would be a system capable of dealing with I/O. V490 or V890. The new ones M4000/M5000 I don't have enought experience about those. Well ... if you use a fileserver that uses lots of threads I would

[osol-help] need help compiling.

2008-02-06 Thread sagar
hie , i have some programs written in c++ in text form and now i want to compile then . i m using solaris 10 os ..with inbuilt gcc in usr/sfw/bin. so how to go about it. plz give the command and the syntax if possible. thank you. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...

2008-02-06 Thread Lars Tunkrans
E10K : requires as I remember it from 10 years ago 3 x 32 amps 220 volts For the money the Electrical power + the Cooling cost will amount to in a while. You can buy almost anything else . Also you need4 by 4 meters in floor space and a

Re: [osol-help] need help compiling.

2008-02-06 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Its not that simple . If you have a single sourcefile with no Libraries to be linked you can probably do #CC=/usr/swf/bin/gcc #CXX=/usr/sfw/bin/g++ #export CC CXX #/usr/sfwbin/gmake objectfilename If you have a more sofisticated set of C or C++ sourcefiles you need to learn

[osol-help] SXDE 1/08 upgrade problems

2008-02-06 Thread Per Lager
I have been running SXDE 9/07 on a fileserver for a couple of months and today I tried to upgrade to SXDE 1/08. However, after keyboard configuration the graphical installer fails, claiming the X-display cannot be initialised, and suggest use of the text-installer. I could probably use this

Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...

2008-02-06 Thread Sean Sprague
E10K : requires as I remember it from 10 years ago 3 x 32 amps 220 volts For the money the Electrical power + the Cooling cost will amount to in a while. You can buy almost anything else . Also you need4 by 4 meters in floor space and a

Re: [osol-help] Creating 14+ disc media fileserver, suggestions for a noob to the OS?

2008-02-06 Thread Sam
Thanks for the extra suggestions, I'm going to get a 2nd 60GB drive for the OS now. I don't see how it would but would having the OS on slower IDE/133 drives slow down access to the RAIDz of fast SATAII drives? Sam This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] zfs root with sxde

2008-02-06 Thread Karl
It's my understanding that the latest sxde has zfs root, which I took to mean that if I installed solaris on a single drive computer it would have been formatted as zfs. However, when I look at zpool list, it tells me there are no pools defined. Am I mistaken? Thanks, Karl

[osol-help] SXDE 9/07 Internet Issues

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff
So I've had Solaris Express Developer Edition (9/07 build) installed on my computer since around late October or early November. The installation went flawlessly except for one issue: the internet didn't work. I started with turning off NWAM and setting up the connections manually in the GNOME

[osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32

2008-02-06 Thread bijoy
Hi, Thanks for the help in advance I got following error when i tried to install Solaris 10 5/11 on Intel core2duo system MB is Intel dp35DP Error:- Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32: file /kernel/AMD64/genunix: Vn_getops: Value 0xfffe000d61c3 Doesnot fitdo_relocations:

Re: [osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32

2008-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
bijoy wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help in advance I got following error when i tried to install Solaris 10 5/11 on Intel core2duo system Why are you installing such an old version? What's wrong with an OpenSolaris release? Ian ___

[osol-help] Live-Upgrade to SXDE0108 fails / data loss?

2008-02-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Finally, I took the plunge on my main machine to upgrade. Taking my earlier problems and others' suggestions, I made a live-upgrade; exactly as pointed out on the website http://developers.sun.com/sxde/upgrade_guide.jsp I followed meticulously (as far as I know, since I have no experience), read

Re: [osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation

2008-02-06 Thread bijoy
I have got this version from Opensolaris free DVD distribution program by courier... Pls help me if you have solved thisissue before Thanks Bijoy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list