Re: [osol-help] Broken system

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Althoff
Paul, for exactly that reason I changed the menu.lst so that my default boot is a very verbose text boot - I want to see whats going on. The last section (default 1) is the text boot, it's the same as the first, except it changes to text boot. I think you need to run # bootadm update-archive

Re: [osol-help] umlaut, accented file names not accessible utf8only=on normalization=formD

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Althoff
Paul, thanks for the detailed answer and own trials. I have no problem replicating them, even using your file names or öÖäÄüÜ. Also using rsync to copy them from one pool to the other causes no problem. Hundreds or thousands of files exist in my system which are fine to copy or move. Maybe jus

Re: [osol-help] Wireless slow - Intel 4965AG

2009-10-07 Thread Tomas Bodzar
No. You're right with space :-( I'm able to download it because there is a place for it but installation fail as no space in /etc :-( Do you have some possibility to install OpenBSD on this laptop? Eg. is it safe for you to make repartition of disk? For this test 1 to 2 GB of space is more then

Re: [osol-help] Unable to get the machine on the net

2009-10-07 Thread Tomas Bodzar
If you can see in output of ifconfig -a word RUNNING on your NIC then it means that your NIC detect link on cable. But be aware that not all drivers are able to do that. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list open

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris as WiFi access point

2009-10-07 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Two problems. As I know AP functionality is missing in OpenSolaris. If I'm wrong then sorry ;-) And bigger problem from my point of view is missing option in installer for something like Core distribution as in Solaris 10. If this option will be in Solaris 11 and AP function will be there too th

Re: [osol-help] Broken system

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks will try in the morning! Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Broken system

2009-10-07 Thread Alan Steinberg
Remove these lines from the grub: splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm foreground d25f00 background 115d93 Then remove the last part of the boot line (,console=graphics): kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,console=graphics

[osol-help] Broken system

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Oh stupid me! ran pfexec zfs create rpool/export/home/ipol cannot mount '/export/home/ipol': directory is not empty filesystem sucessfully created but not mounted Rebooted and the machine won't come up Tried e at the grub menu and editing the boot command adding -s but that hangs on the splash sc

Re: [osol-help] umlaut, accented file names not accessible utf8only=on normalization=formD

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Reading your very first line, pa...@workdellgx620:~$ uname -a SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_124 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris pa...@workdellgx620:~$ ls -l total 78083 -rw-r--r-- 1 pauljstaff5 2009-10-07 16:06 один -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 2009-09-29 15:07 10.151.2.60 This file

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris as WiFi access point

2009-10-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Even if OpenSolaris will be capable of this why to do > this? Do you need GUI on AP?Do you need games on > AP?Do you need nwam and a lot of other stuff on AP? > Why? Use what's appropriate for needs. In your case > OpenBSD,NetBSD,some minimalized Linux distro and so > on. For a heavy-duty hot sp

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris as WiFi access point

2009-10-07 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Even if OpenSolaris will be capable of this why to do this? Do you need GUI on AP?Do you need games on AP?Do you need nwam and a lot of other stuff on AP? Why? Use what's appropriate for needs. In your case OpenBSD,NetBSD,some minimalized Linux distro and so on. -- This message posted from open

Re: [osol-help] Unable to get the machine on the net

2009-10-07 Thread Pradeep Subramaniam
I am so embarrassed. It was indeed the cable. I switched the cable and it worked!! The only reason I did not try this is because when the machine was going through POST, the port on the router did light up. It then went off as the OS was booting up. That, with the entry in the messages file, ma

[osol-help] umlaut, accented file names not accessible utf8only=on normalization=formD

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Althoff
Problem: Files are not accessible because of problems with non-ascii characters, they cannot be deleted or renamed, rsync fails Using OpenSolaris 2010.02 svn 123, just updated all to 124 - no change. Background: following the ideas on this thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID

Re: [osol-help] Help removing CDROM Drive

2009-10-07 Thread Mitchell Cipriano
Stefan: That appears to have solved my problem. Many thanks, Mitch -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris as WiFi access point

2009-10-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Setting IPFILTER What does ipfilter have to do with using an OS as a wireless access point? Using wireless hardware as an AP rather than as a client requires suitably capable hardware and driver support. AFAIK, OpenSolaris does _not_ have driver support at this time for acting as a wireles

Re: [osol-help] Help removing CDROM Drive

2009-10-07 Thread Stefan Rothenbuehler
On 10/07/09 09:46, Mitchell Cipriano wrote: I installed OpenSolaris from a CD. I now want to remove the CD ROM drive from the system, but if I simply remove it the system has difficulty booting. There must be a way to tell the OS the CD ROM drive has been removed. Anyone have any suggestions?

[osol-help] Help removing CDROM Drive

2009-10-07 Thread Mitchell Cipriano
I installed OpenSolaris from a CD. I now want to remove the CD ROM drive from the system, but if I simply remove it the system has difficulty booting. There must be a way to tell the OS the CD ROM drive has been removed. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensol