Re: [osol-help] GRUB problem

2011-08-02 Thread Edward Martinez
hello everybody, I have installed opensolaris 2009.06 with windows 7 ultimate x64 and ubuntu 11.04 x64 as i wanted to triple boot my system. I installed windows first followed by ubuntu on an extended partition and finally installed opensolaris on primary partition after windows. Now I'm

Re: [osol-help] [osol-discuss] advise on opensolaris version to be used

2011-02-02 Thread Edward Martinez
I will try to play with OpenSolaris version 0906 for a while and maybe later check out Solaris 11 Express and other OpenSolaris based distros. I think the front page should notify new users their won't be any more opensolaris binary distro releases. opensolaris 2010.05 was the last

Re: [osol-help] Help I'm all at sea with osol installation

2010-11-20 Thread Edward Martinez
OK I've got my hands on a tasty ultra45, the only problem is its got no DVD drive , cable or tray. I tried to make an adapter but I couldn't get the pinouts for the sun 50way IDE cable. I'm trying now to do a netboot of the 0906 iso using a tftp server. I've setup a tftp server on a

Re: [osol-help] Unable to boot Linux from OSolaris 2009.06 b134

2010-11-12 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, I have openSolaris installed on sda4 alongside several linux on sda2 (extended), PC-BSD on sda3 and Windows 7 on sda1. In addition I have 4 more Linux on sdc2 (extended). During Solaris install I used grub to hide sda2 in order to hide swap and stuff. Solaris installed its GRUB on

[osol-help] Solaris support cheaper than RedHat Ent. linux 6 :-)

2010-11-12 Thread Edward Martinez
taking a break, so I decided to read some news:-) RedHat 6 got a new pricing. http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7023-New-RedHat-pricing.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Solaris support cheaper than RedHat Ent. linux 6 :-)

2010-11-12 Thread Edward Martinez
taking a break, so I decided to read some news:-) RedHat 6 got a new pricing. http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7023-New-RedHat-prici ng.html Sorry for mistakenly posting under Help I meant to posted it under discussion my bad:-( -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Opinions and how to move forward?

2010-10-05 Thread Edward Martinez
More thoughts please! :) Or you could continue using eiher Opensolaris 2009.06 or snv_b134 until Oracle release what suppose to be Opensolaris replacement Solaris 11 Express at the end of the year, and it is mention, that it might include ZFS data encryption, not seen anywhere else until

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade from 111b to specific version (117) fails.Try relaxing the pattern.

2010-08-09 Thread Edward Martinez
interesting...seems the howto is working for me. After i change my repos from release to dev I installed SUNWipkg package then I simply followed directions substituting the snv_129 to snv_117( not 117a): pkg install SUNWipkg beadm create snv_117 beadm mount snv_117 /mnt pkg contents -m

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade from 111b to specific version (117) fails.Try relaxing the pattern.

2010-08-09 Thread Edward Martinez
interesting...seems the howto is working for me. After i change my repos from release to dev I installed SUNWipkg package then I simply followed directions substituting the snv_129 to snv_117( not 117a): pkg install SUNWipkg beadm create snv_117 beadm mount snv_117 /mnt pkg

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade from 111b to specific version (117) fails.Try relaxing the pattern.

2010-08-08 Thread Edward Martinez
n...@nas:~# beadm mount snv_117a /mnt/snv_117a n...@nas:~# pkg authority PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI pkg: The following pattern(s) did not match any packages in the current catalog. Try relaxing the pattern, refreshing and/or examining the catalogs:

Re: [osol-help] Are T6400 processors compatible with OpenSolaris?

2010-07-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 07/ 9/10 02:19 PM, John Furlong wrote: Processors aren't a problem. Chip sets may be. Boot of the live CD and run the hardware detection tool. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org CPU can be a

[osol-help] APIC error interrupt on CPU 0 , status 0 = 0, status 1 =4.floods screen

2010-03-15 Thread Edward Martinez
right after i make a selection from the GRUB menu this messageAPIC error interrupt on CPU0 , status 0 =0 status1 =4 floods the screen and i have to reset the compute via the reset button. this is happening on a Foxconn a74ml-k mainboard with an AMD Athlon II x2 240 I think this is the