Re: [osol-help] Installing opensolaris 2008.11 on HP 550 notebook

2009-01-19 Thread Roberto Iannone
Jürgen Keil ha scritto: The install should log you in automatically. IIRC, it doesn't in case the Xorg server fails to start (unsupported video card?) Humm.. , may be ... HP 550 uses an intel video card (IIRC is Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100) Can I start the kernel with some

[osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Tadeas Moravec
I've just installed OpenSolaris and I have to admit that I'm a complete newbie here, although I've already got quite some experience with the Linux world. The first problem here is the speed of the system as a whole: it takes more than 5 minutes to start and runs very, very slowly - it's quite a

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Tadeas Moravec
2 GB. CPU is AMD Athlon64 x2, 1900MHz. So it should be quite fast... I've noticed another thing: the startup hangs. I have to press some key (I've only used Enter and Esc) several times to boot. However I don't have a clue what's going on since there's that splash image. That orange moving line

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Johnston
How much memory does it have? That seems to make a big difference IMHO. Paul -Original Message- From: opensolaris-help-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-help-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tadeas Moravec Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:43 AM To:

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Gary Gendel
When the system is running modify the GRUB menu.lst file that can be found at: /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst Delete the following three lines: - splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm foreground d25f00 background 115d93 Remove ,console=graphics from the end of the kernel

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-19 Thread Sean
You'd probably be better off just trying it and see what happens. I would be interested to know if it works out. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] iSCSI target trouble...

2009-01-19 Thread Billy
Same story once again... Clean OpenSolaris 2008.11 According to the ZFS Admin guide (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/gechv?a=view), shareing a zfs filesystem over iscsi is a two line command. # zfs create -V 2g tank/volumes/v2 # zfs set shareiscsi=on tank/volumes/v2 # iscsitadm list

[osol-help] vmtools installing problem - black screen after installed successfully.

2009-01-19 Thread Li Qiang
I tested installing vmtools in two versions of vmware workstation, 6.0.2 and 6.5.1, and ESXi 3.5u3, and met the problem. Pls get my results below. For vmware wks 6.0.2: 1. There was no Xsession.d folder in system during installing vmtools. 2. Ctreted the folder, then asked me if create new

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-19 Thread Billy
That's what I'm trying to do but I seriously can't find any help on how to enable and make iscsi target work on opensolaris 2008.11. I've already posted for help on that... Anyway, what I was thinking was that if you manage to make this thing work, then that system of three raidz'ed pools,

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Blake
I have also seen very slow boot times in the initial install of 2008.11 - however, after my first use of the Update Manager, this issue went away. YMMV. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: When the system is running modify the GRUB menu.lst file

Re: [osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-19 Thread Blake
Persevere until until you get it working. I never thought I'd say this, but I think this is a better CIFS server than Samba! :) One trick that will help you a lot is using 'zfs set sharesmb=name=[some_name] [pool]/[filesystem]' - this way you get nice neat share names. I haven't done AD

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-19 Thread Jürgen Keil
Curiously, in /var/adm/messages I have two error messages about retryable errors reading blocks from a SONY SCSI device. I built this machine myself, and I'm fairly certain I have no Sony devices, and the disk I'm installing on is not SCSI. My guess would be that the SONY SCSI device is an

Re: [osol-help] How do I reinstall a package?

2009-01-19 Thread Nik Masloff
Aren`t you should use pkg programm in OpenSolaris? Try to find particular binary: # find / -name pkg -type f -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Подскажите влад ельцу ноутбука

2009-01-19 Thread Nik Masloff
I advice you to either write in English, or post messages in local languages to appropriate local group. Etiquette :) Ну а по сути вопроса - я всегда убираю яркость монитора на несколько порядков. Но все равно, работы большей чем на 1.5 часа не добивался. Хотя винде работает 1.8 часа. Ну и

[osol-help] HP P800

2009-01-19 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if there was HP P800 RAID card support for Solaris 10 on x86. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-19 Thread Tom
This just happened to me in virtualbox. It got stuck at 99% for a very long time, but after like 20-30 minutes, it did complete. Have you tried leaving it sit for a long time before killing it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-help] System halting and possible ZFS Data Loss?

2009-01-19 Thread Blake
Try 'zpool import' when booted from the LiveCD to check for existing pools. Please post your output. Also, you can add a flag to the GRUB boot option to make your boot verbose - this might help diagnose the hang: Boot to GRUB 'e' for edit on the default boot option. Assuming you are booting

[osol-help] How to update packages on the system which is behind a proxy server?

2009-01-19 Thread Li Qiang
In my company, we use ISA server as the web proxy, all the internet access must go through it. As It use the ntlm format, I use the 'ntlmaps-0.9.9.0.1' as a transfer. After set the proxy setting in osol, firefox was working, and the 'update manager' could get the update infos, I mean I could

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris incredibly slow

2009-01-19 Thread Tadeas Moravec
Very well, thank you. There are only about five lines written during the process and none of them is actually relevant to what's happening. Is there any way to enable verbose mode during the startup? I've noticed another weird thing: the computer is using quite a lot of memory according to

Re: [osol-help] Keeping up-to-date

2009-01-19 Thread Will Twomey
I usually try not to review dead threads, but this is #1 on google for 'keep opensolaris up to date'. I am also curious if pkg has the ability like apt-get/dpkg to download/install security updates. If not, how should one keep opensolaris up to date? The old way (patch pack + 3 reboots)? --

Re: [osol-help] Just to be sure

2009-01-19 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sat, January 17, 2009 11:10, michele mancusi wrote: hi I'm planning to install opensolaris on my dell xps m1330, I already checked hardware compatibility and finally there is support for BCM5906M... I have downloaded the livecd and it seems to be a 99 relaese and I heard support for BCM is

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-19 Thread Norman H. Azadian
I think you're right about the CDROM drive. I thought it was a Pioneer, but perhaps the guts are Sony. The times in the two log files are totally disjoint. Since the two CDROM read errors are far apart in time and space, are retryable warnings, and there is no evidence of hard error, I don't

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-19 Thread Norman H. Azadian
I've re-started the install, twice. It hangs on Set fdisk attrs. No messages in /var/adm/messages, and no other signs of activity. I guess the next step is a reboot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-19 Thread john kroll
Sorry your absolutely right I'm way closer to noone than anyone anyway . -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Open Solaris Install Freezes At 99%

2009-01-19 Thread John Brewer
knio try loading from a iso image in VirtualBox rather then your DVD-rom drive. Also both of you can you see if there a Sony bios update available. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] how to xdmcp in to solaris 2008.11

2009-01-19 Thread Chris
I tried all the solutions in your post except for FreeNX and Secure Global Desktop, but no luck. Wow, finally. I am able to get in via svcadm enable xvnc-inetd svcadm enable and pointing my client browser to 192.168.1.103:5800 Whew! I made it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Can't get mouse wheel scrolling to work with OpenSolaris 1108

2009-01-19 Thread Jean-Paul Rivet
Some further information I've found since that might help: - When using the 'xev' to watch the events generated by Xorg, I can see successfully the first 3 buttons working. Button 1 - left click Button 2 - wheel button click Button 3 - right click However the remaining buttons fail to generate

Re: [osol-help] Pooling combining iscsi targets?

2009-01-19 Thread Blake
I think you want 'pkg install storage-server' to get all the iscsi bits in place. 'man iscsitadm' is a good place to look after you get that installed. cheers, Blake On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Billy cyp...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I'm trying to do but I seriously can't find any