Re: [osol-help] zfs help

2010-12-26 Thread Cia Watson
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:40:03 PST David Smith wrote: > I guess the jury is still out on the mysterious 'extra' solaris > partitions but all I can say is, documentation seems to be rarer > than hens teeth. If anyone else has encountered this and has a > plausible explanation (or even a theory), I'

Re: [osol-help] dual boot expand partition

2010-12-10 Thread Cia Watson
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:13:46 PST stephen bond wrote: > it makes sense, but I don't find it appealing. I was not trying to > save space by deleting sda1, just wanted to have 1 primary partition > fewer so i can create an extra . > > and I think an extended partition will not be bootable. so both

Re: [osol-help] dual boot expand partition

2010-12-09 Thread Cia Watson
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:59:18 PST stephen bond wrote: > goal: expand the solaris partition > > I have a disc with XP and Solaris and would like to increase the size > of my Solaris partition (partition here is not the solaris > definition). Gparted shows there is a very small 7mb partition at the

Re: [osol-help] VLC and Firefox 3.6.10

2010-10-12 Thread Cia Watson
I installed Wine and ultimately purchased bordeaux for a newer version of Wine for a couple of other app's, and also installed the Win version of VLC. It works! Cia W On 10/12/2010 02:29 AM, Paul Johnston wrote: For firefox see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Download_Mozilla_Source_Code

Re: [osol-help] I think I broke my rpool

2010-09-23 Thread Cia Watson
On 09/23/10 06:12 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day, I was trying to increase the size of an rpool on an x86 box with b134 on it and whatever version of ZFS is current with b134. I offline'd one of the two drives in my rpool (zpool offline rpool) rebooted ... The box gets to the splash screen (ope

Re: [osol-help] New to OpenSolaris...Network Card

2010-09-06 Thread Cia Watson
If you visit here: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/en/index.shtml You may be able to find the package, that appears to be open, and there's an option to browse for packages. I know I had some issues with networking when I tried the 2009.06 livecd so I did some research and eventually downlo

Re: [osol-help] menu.lst entry for booting OpenSolaris with GRUB?

2010-09-06 Thread Cia Watson
Here's the listing on osol snv_134: #-- ADDED BY BOOTADM - DO NOT EDIT -- title OpenSolaris Development snv_134 findroot (pool_rpool,2,a) bootfs rpool/ROOT/opensolaris splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm foreground d25f00 background 115d93 kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $

Re: [osol-help] What is the default cmdline (!) mail client in OpenSolaris? mailx ?

2010-09-01 Thread Cia Watson
On 09/ 1/10 07:26 AM, Peter Schow wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:03:31AM -0700, Peter Steiner wrote: What is the default cmdline (!) mail client in OpenSolaris? mailx ? There's not a "default" but /usr/bin/mailx is a good choice. Others: /usr/bin/mail /usr/bin/mutt There

Re: [osol-help] User with roles=root cannot update; pfexec can !

2010-08-13 Thread Cia Watson
I'm still running the version of FF that came with osol snv_134 (i.e. v 3.5.8) since it's behaving just fine. However, as a user (I can't speak for the dev's, etc.) I have no problem that one would have to use pfexec to run firefox before it would allow you to update, even though your user has

Re: [osol-help] Desktop & mouse configuration...

2010-08-03 Thread Cia Watson
Another method, for single-click on icons is > system > preferences > file management then click on the 'Behavior' tab and select 'single click to open items' instead of the default double click. I forget if 'always open in browser windows' is selected by default or not, (it's on the same sectio

Re: [osol-help] How to access/mount hard disc? /dev/sda does not exist

2010-07-28 Thread Cia Watson
On 07/28/10 03:14 AM, Peter Steiner wrote: I have a successfully running OpenSolaris 2009.06. Now I want to mount resp access the hard disc and searched for an appropriate entry. From Linux I know that the hard disc and the partitions on it are named like /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 but I di

Re: [osol-help] [desktop-discuss] Sony DSC S40 camera not detected

2010-07-25 Thread Cia Watson
Bugzilla filed: https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=16647 On 07/24/10 08:25 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: Hi Cia, Cia Watson píše v pá 23. 07. 2010 v 09:35 -0700: Hi again Milan, On 07/22/10 12:52 PM, Milan Jurik wrote: Run command 'tail -f /var/adm/messages' a

Re: [osol-help] Trou ble Moving opensolaris to new HD

2010-07-19 Thread Cia Watson
On 07/18/10 06:31 PM, splazo doberman wrote: Here are a few of the things I've tried: 1) Since the pool I can't mount appears rather conveniently in the file browser I tried some of the right click options there. Mount obviously didn't work. Neither did rename. Gives me the error message "Sorr

Re: [osol-help] Sony DSC S40 camera not detected

2010-07-18 Thread Cia Watson
On 07/18/10 02:03 PM, Tim Foster wrote: Hi All, On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 01:05 -0700, Jürgen Keil wrote: plugged in my Sony dsc s40 cybershot digital camera via usb, ... and it shows up showing driver: scsa2usb with a description of Sony Corp. DSC-S30/ S70 / S75 ... The camara seems t

[osol-help] Sony DSC S40 camera not detected

2010-07-17 Thread Cia Watson
Hi all. I'm running Osol snv_134, and plugged in my Sony dsc s40 cybershot digital camera via usb, and it didn't appear on my desktop. Unplugged and replugged the usb into another slot, still not showing up -- I opened up the media folder and it wasn't there either. I checked the device driver

Re: [osol-help] Mozilla problems in b134

2010-07-13 Thread Cia Watson
richardg wrote: "I've just made a fresh installation of 32-bit b134, and still encounter the same problems I had on my old OSOL (b134 built up through various dev releases from the 2009.06 live CD) - as follows: 1) Firefox and Thunderbird start OK either from a terminal window, or from their ic

Re: [osol-help] Need ZFS master!

2010-07-12 Thread Cia Watson
I'm not a master, but... I've spent a good deal of time in the last few weeks (particularly this past weekend) trying to figure out ZFS. I actually think I have a pretty good handle on it, though not a lot of real practice yet. :-) The previous suggestion to attach the 2nd drive seems to me that

[osol-help] [solved] Re: Apache22 is in maintenance and I don't know why

2010-06-21 Thread Cia Watson
Thank you chrisj and Steven, apache22 is now working! After I posted my question I did a bit of poking around in the log files, and discovered /var/svc/log/network-http:apache22.log and that did show an error about a module in modules32, so I commented that but it still wasn't working. I turned

[osol-help] Apache22 is in maintenance and I don't know why

2010-06-20 Thread Cia Watson
I've tried everything I can think of, and my local apache web server isn't working, it says it's in maintenance. Thusly: maintenance15:31:02 svc:/network/http:apache22 I've set it up under CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 and Fedora and also on RHEL v6 beta, and I notice that the httpd.conf file has som

Re: [osol-help] Install hangs at 99%

2010-06-10 Thread Cia Watson
As a follow-up, I decided to try it again (rebooted) and the 2nd time it finished the install. Yay! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Install hangs at 99%

2010-06-09 Thread Cia Watson
I tried installing the 2009.06 livecd this morning and after it completed the transfer process it didn't complete the installation but then it crashed when I tried to view the install log. I did some more looking around, and I'm now booted to the dev-134 iso cd, and this one at least got me onl