hello

I have an opensolaris 10 box, and it refuses to boot

panic: can not load boot archive

gavo58: you can't have OpenSolaris 10

you've got OpenSolaris, _or_ you've got Solaris 10

I have it booted into failsafe mode

either way, can you boot failsafe from grub?

hah

opensolaris

right

so you've booted failsafe

right

have you mounted your root device or root zfs somewhere?

well I was trying to mount it at /a

is this osol200805?

but all then entries in /dev/dsk say they are read-only

and will not mount

I am not 100% sure, this is a client machine in our datacenter

and I have about 0 experience with solaris in general

um

do you have /usr/bin/pkg or /usr/sbin/pkg installed?

let me check

there are a few pkg* but not pkg

ok

and what does "uname -v" report?

SunOS 5.1 Generic*

are you sure?

on my box it reports snv_93

yeah, that would lead me to believe that this guy has no idea what he has

and this is probably actually solaris 10

grab the output from "uname -a"

it's up in failsafe mode

you should still be able to get the output from "uname -a"

what you need to do, general case, is (a) mount your root slice somewhere handy (like /a or /mnt), then (b) run /sbin/bootadm update-archive -R /a (or /mnt)

then sync and reboot

have to go - taking cat to vet

others here can help you if you need more

right

I have tried a few different combinations of that from different websites

but I can't find the root slice

SunOS 5.1 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc

that's uname -a

SunOS 5.1? that's impressive

hah

is that supposed to make me feel better ;)

wow

What's more impressive is that it' sx86

And running

hah, well it's not running... which is the problem

:-/

the customer is on the phone with sun right now for $450/hr

trying to fix it

that's what sun charge for no-support call outs?

sounds more like some high level support by a kernel engineer than a simple SSE service call.

standard phone support rate

if you don't have a support contract

dclarke wanders in

samba 3.0.32 is available as a "testing" phase package at Blastwave.org .. just FYI .. see http://www.blastwave.org/testing/index_cron.html

dclarke wanders away

that MD has given me lunchtime subject matter again

I was chatting with this guy who is planning to open a franchise bookstore

not that he can afford an MD

right now

but anyway - it was cool talking about the 250 x 5000 instances of potential XP

just floating out there in space

next year will be a new gear year for me.

then maybe I can buy a few PC's that can run Solaris

evening

hi jaybeekay

hey glynn

the installer does not modify disks until after the "begin installation" screen, correct?

i think my boot archive became corrupted somehow, is it possible that this happened when i did 'shutdown' after existing the installer? i remember it saying something about bootadm

hello all

Hi

Is it poss to rename a pool *before* you import it ?

That is, you have a rpool on a fresh zfs root and your recovering data from a old zfs root also called rpool

yes

zpool import oldname newnane

zpool import oldname newname

oh really that easy

thanks

Tpenta:http://pastebin.com/m58cac7d1

It does not say that in the man page?

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zpool-1m

I figured it, don't worry. Thanks

Coffeeeeeeeee

:)

StayTuned2 gets loaded on Earl Grey

Coffee

Coffee

Coffee

more coffee ?

More is always good

hi

Coffee?

Can anyone tell me which distro of solaris to try, for a programmer.

rajeshsr: any?

which tools do you need?

Can I try Solaris Express edition?

if you want to

C compiler, C++, java, netbeans..

which c compiler?

GCC, preferably...

Actualy I have that Starter's kit thing distributed by Sun. I tried Belenix, but it suffers from a major problem, its grub doesn't load itself! I searched in net and I found that its hdinstaller for 0.6 is buggy!

Is there anyway to overcome that bug of Belenix 0.6. Seraching at net, doesn't help!

The grub entry tries tp boots via multiboot. But I get a message that is not valid.

and it gave a new entry conatining kernel$, $ISADIR, etc..

I tried that without any success..

None to answer!

rajshsr: I'm currently running opensolaris from http://opensolaris.org "nevada"

rajshsr: This distribution is the current solaris strategy (although there are different oppinions about the new culture)

rajshsr: Unfortunatly the install is a bit primitiv so you have to upgrade first (~2 GB download)

rajshsr: then you got a nice system with a point and click package manager. Click sunstudio or netbeans

and voila

to upgrade be sure to follow these instructions:

ehm.. looking for the instructions.

TheK_, The main reason for my question is that, some of my friends can't access net to download so much! They need as much packages as possible from the DVD itself, as we have in Debian. I am looking for a good Solaris distro which satisfies this requirement.

http://nivox.blogspot.com/2008/06/opensolaris-upgrade-boot-environment.html

well.. I'm not going to recommend Solaris Express because it didn't work for me. I had troubles installing on the HD because "/" can't fit anywhere error and that was such a silly error that I didn't want to investigate it. :)

Also, Sun has their marbles in OpenSolaris trademark

rajshsr: Give me your address and I'll send you a copy :)

rajeshsr: kristofer.pettersson@gmail.com

OpenSolaris doesn't come with a lots of packages, does it? I mean at least the primitive programming stuffs like a C compiler

it comes with two C compilers

rajeshsr: This is what I first thought, but the packagemanger is constantly expanding and after the upgrade there is more than enough

and two C++ compilers, and a fortran compiler. and a java compiler

also you can use other package distirbutions like blastwave, SFE, LWS

TheK_, without going for net?

TheK_, In the CD itself?

rajeshsr: sure, why not. :)

oh.. you mean the live cd?

no, that is pretty bare.

TheK_, Yep, thats is what I used to install.

It is a SaaS thing

I'm not sure there will ever be a free CD which doesn

require net access.

TheK_, Then we have a separate CD other than Live CD which contains all things?

Not as SaaS obviously.. You will need to by a box.

TheK_, SaaS means?

SaaS= software as a service.

In this case the service is free :)

TheK_, Ok considering my situation what do u think is good?

I have some Starter's Kit distributed by Sun. It conatisn 2 DVDs-> 1 with Nexenta, Belenix, Schillix. 2. with Solaris Express.

TheK_ jaws drop.

ok then. :)

So, Nevada is the latest distro of opensolaris?

yes

No - nevada is the codename for what was to become Solaris "Next"

It is neither Nexenta, Belenix, Schillix or Solaris Express though.

TheK, oh!

IS it really the best of all distros, which comes with most packages?

timsf: What do you mean "was" ?

I mean solaris distros..

TheK_, Does it contain all programming packages?

I may be mistaken - perhaps "is". Choose a tense...

rajeshsr: No. As I said, it is a SaaS driven distro. You use a package manager. You don't have to, but it is darn convenient.

TheK_, so not much from CD itself!

rajeshsr: What you are looking for is something static. A traditional ready CD which installs just what you need end of story, right?

TheK, exactly!

TheK_, something as bulky as Debian at least with maximal programming tools!

TheK_, BTW, someone said something about Open Solaris. There also I need to download from net? Ot is it avilable in the CD itself?

rajeshsr: Ok, I don't think you'll find it. Maybe Solaris Express is such a distro, but as I said, I didn't manage to get it runnig.

TheK_, ok, thanks for the info.

rajeshsr: Well.. perhaps I wasn't much of help. :) The different names are a bit confusing.

I am facing that USB error, (SOF interrupt, hostcontroller blah blah..) which is a bug of solaris. Is there anyway other than disabling my USB?

TheK_, :)

rajeshsr: Nope, I don't have any knowledge of that.

TheK_, k, thanks

TheK_, tried any other solaris distro other than Nevada?

rajeshsr: nexenta. It didn't suit me.

rajeshsr: And I tried to install Solaris Express.

TheK_, nexanata was a nightmare for me! Very cryptic installation!

rajeshsr: I had some initial problems with Nevada as the image from opensolaris.org contains many bugs. But after the upgrade everything seems to rock.

Gave up on seeing its installation interface!

:)

I think they have the wrong goals also.

Belenix looks really cool! But its Grub entries seems buggy! Never know how to fix it! :(

"Killing ubuntu" doesn't lead anywhere. Ubuntu is about helping children of africa. They had enough killing already. OpenSolaris will earn my trust when it slaughters Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle. :)

Uh - who mentioned killing ubuntu?

TheK_ dares anyone in solaris claim that microsoft isn't good enough to compete with.

timsf: nexenta

sigh.

timsf: some ppl in #opensolaris has said that too.

trolls.

:)

timsf: you have to fight them all the time.

TheK_ hides his tail

TheK_, thats fancy dream!

rajeshsr: a fancy dream is always the first step :)

TheK_, But ver hard seeing how Ubuntu improves! :)

TheK_: you're probably using the wrong OS. (open)solaris doesn't care about "slaughtering Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle."

in fact, a lot of Sun customers use solaris to run oracle on

_mary_kate_: Yes, Oracle customers are our friends, Oracle however charges per core for a reason and it isn't because they like Sun to have the gold.

Not to forget, Sun now owns mysql!

_mary_kate_: of corse the OS doesn't have the ambition to slaughter anyone. I'm way to political :)

_mary_kate_: But it is a driving force for me to compete against the best businesses.

_mary_kate_: You don't think OpenSolaris needs a driving force?

rajeshsr: right! :)

TheK_, Why can't that be, just "Develop OS for future"! I really like it!

i think the driving force behind (open)solaris is to produce a well-engineered OS that can compete with or surpass the competition

TheK_, I wanna try Solaris becoz I have seen people mention abt its backend development like ZFS, some kernel optimization etc.

TheK_, So that motto of developing OS for future goes well with what Solaris is doing!

Well, as long ppl believe it. :)

A successful product meet market expectation.

"well engineered" is something I could say to my 8 year old son when he has build something in lego, and it wouldn't be a lie, just a different perspective.

_mary_kate_: I spent perhaps 20h installing opensolaris. I'm not very smart but I'm very common. :) What are my driving forces?

TheK, I think linux in its incipience wud have been confronted with same problems like solaris! Solaris is budding! An of course it needs to do a lot to meet market expectation, thats right! But I think solaris is going abt doing it, correct me if I am wrong.

rajeshsr: I believe you are right. :)

TheK_, Am just starting with solaris and I am not so sure of this statement! I just told those words becoz of what I heard from others..

rajeshsr: alright! So tell me why you think it might not be true?

rajeshsr, Nope, I don't think it is not true! It is and shud be true! But am not a huge fan of reinventing the wheel. I think why can't Sun use Linux kernel itself to make a kernel like Solaris, with its features etc. And use a linux distro itself instaed of a new Solaris one!

TheK_, Uh that is to u! :)

TheK_, Not for me! I dunno how I did it! :)

haha :)

TheK_, Take the case of some commands like mount, I find it deliberately wanting to differ from Linux! Take fdisk -l, many many slight differences!

Dunno what is achieved by it!

rajeshsr: Don't forget that Sun might have been first inventing this technology. Linux might be the system reinventing the wheel.

gnu is not unix

hi all, why would lpadmin not find my ppd file?

But Sun really does a good job, with developing Solaris. But doing these things really seems a question to answer! :) May be it is matter of pride to write ur own kernel than to use an existing one! Considering the place where Sun (as a really great pioneer of various technologies) stands it is not impossible to think that way!

rajeshsr: In fact Sun invented package management long before apt-get. I think your question contains the answer: The wheel must always keep reinventing itself or the hungry jaws of evolution will break it.

even after gunzip, it still complains it can't find the .gz file (while I'm specifying full path to the actual .ppd)

holcomb: very true :)

TheK_, Is that so? Linux development of package manager came after Open Solaris?

rajeshsr: I think solaris had package management before linux, yes. I don't remember the details, but I'm sure someone in this channel might.

rajeshsr: however, they didn't have the same 'concept' of packagement as debian (now ubuntu)

http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/1185282 <--- details here

rajeshsr: opensolaris is in my mind reinventing what debian reinvented :)

TheK_: Not really

TheK_: Debian != Ubuntu

That's one

trochej: oh.. that wasn't what I ment

TheK_: Second, IPS is different in many ways from traditional package managers.

svr4 packages were definitely first. that's not to say better

TheK_: I don't really know if I like it, but it's different

ips is way out there.

trochej: I ment I think Ubuntu controls the faith of apt-get and debian now.

it gets stuff from a repo, that's about all it copies from apt

Yup

trochej: yes, I agree. IPS is reinventing apt-get which is reinventing packgemanagement

TheK_: Thinking that way, .tgz is reinventing ./configure && make && make install

trochej: no, I don't think so. try agai.

I won't. First, you'd need to have any sensible argument for your case. :)

trochej, What is the difference?

trochej, I mean how they differ from traditional package management?

trochej: I have. I think you are blinded by technology. ;)

TheK_: Me? I doubt it.

rajeshsr: Read docs for ips. They explain it much better then I can.

s/then/than/

>> "http://opensolaris.pastebin.ca/1185282 <--- details here" Does this load?

trochej: I have, and you might as well have written IPS. :)

TheK_: So you say that ips is reinventing apt-get and apt-get is reinventing package management.

Noqw

Now

Package management is a very vague term, so we can agree, that .tgz from slackware is also a package management.

Primitve, yes, but it is.

trochej, So what is ur point? Nothing is reinvented and that everything has its own uniqueness?

Since "reinventing" is rather negative term, meaning discovering the same thing anew, as a useless work, we can agree, that apt-get was a useless work to rework .tgz

rajeshsr: Mine? I wasn't saying that

rajeshsr: I'm just trying to understand the point TheK_ made.

trochej: Don't let me interrupt your explination, but I strongly object to that "reinvention" is a negative term.

So I follow his statement.

Actualy this discussion will be more creative if each of u clarified ur stance!

TheK_: Reinvention is strongly bind in the field of "reinventing the wheel", which points in this direction.

At least I don't get who is standing for what! :)

rajeshsr: hey :) We are limited to a certain key-strokes per second. one need to make short cuts where one can ;)

TheK_: The core "invent" stands for creating something new, but the prefix "re" in that connection means to do this again.

Re-invent means to invent the same again.

rajeshsr: Sun already have a perfectly good kernel that they spent decades developing and tuning, if you want an answer for that question

Moving to Linux wouldn't really buy them much in that regard

If you meant biulding something new based on previous work, it wasn't the word I'd choose. :)

vmlemon, thanks, so solaris has a good history before it became opne?

rajeshsr: Being there in the high-end systems market for almost 30 years it better had. :)

trochej, reinvent==Re-invent a product knowing that such a product has already existed! Just wanna make ur definition more concrete! :)

hi all

trochej: Ok, would you consider that new inventions can be at the same time be a degree of bad as well as a degree of good? If so, reinvention can be "new" but "same" if you take the norm of those coordinates.

rajeshsr: But IPS and apt are not the same "such product". :)

trochej: Reinvent here means finding new ways to reach people and technologies which might be "faster" than previously, although same. What word do you suggest?

TheK_: I'm looking. English is not my best language. :)

trochej: not mine wither :P

eigher

trochej, At least they are same considering that they are "superficaillay" package managers! :)

either.

trochej, Functionally I think they are same!

rajeshsr: This is where you are wrong.

While their purpose is the same: installing and creating packages

.deb allowas for scripting, while ips don't (as I have read on sch blog)

s/allowas/allows/

trochej, Isn't "functionally" mean that?!

rajeshsr: No, functionality means whole set of functions it performs.

Coffee?

trochej: :)

I just stilled coffe over my keyboard and trousers. It sucks.

spilled. (im totally inventing new english words all the time)

And now, after quite a nice and entertaining, but pointless thread, I have to leave you. :)

trochej, :)

trochej: I'm sorry you think it was pointless.

TheK_: Who has changed their mind? :)

Not me, not you. :)

trochej: But perhaps ou just know better than us :)

I doubt rajeshsr did either. :)

trochej: we don't know this yet.

trochej, hmm, In fact I didn't get ur guy's stance properly till now! :)

TheK_: And well, be honest. While it is fun to drill down the meaning of words, their conotations and denotations, in this channel it's rather offtopic and pointless.

:)

trochej, But interesting!

trochej, :)

trochej: still, you invited yourself :)

rajeshsr: It was when I pursued a career in linguistics.

I quit when it got boring. :)

Now, I really need to go. Bye. :)

bye

trochej, Bye

TheK_, me too am leaving! Looks like I will be starting my Solaris adventures with Solaris Express! :)

rajeshsr: good luck! let us know what you feel about it!

TheK_, sure I will be visiting this channel every day!

:)

TheK_, BTW u gave me ur gmail address. Do u mind giving it again? Can I send u a friend request?

rajeshsr: not at all. networking is fun

ie I don't mind. :)

TheK_, gmail id plz? I missed it..

kristofer.pettersson@gmail.com

lol.

TheK_: you just signed yourself up to a lifetime of spam

TheK_, friend request sent, kindly assent to it, when u visit gmail..

how do you feel?

Gekz: I'm a trusting person. i don't regret it.

it's in google now

>_>

hi

is anyone here good with networking/interfaces?

anybody know anything about aggregate interfaces?

chrisr, ask the question, some ppl may answer.

does opensolaris support java?

and all other binary for solaris?

yes

are there production sites running open solaris?

joynet

sorry, thats joyent.com

hi i am unix network and system programmer. now working in ubuntu environment . I want to contribute in opensolaris project. can anyone tell me how can i do this?

abhi - how would you like to contribute?

abhi_, if its code you're into, try digging into some of the bugs here: http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size

seanmcg, : yes i am intersted in coding

abhi_, get familiar with the code and the process at: http://opensolaris.org/os/participate, thats got pointers to getting the code, building it etc...

seanmcg, : i have gone to that site and click one bug . it only gives the description. i can't get it clearly

I'd start by getting familiar with the code and building it first, that can be some effort on its own..

seanmcg, : i am completely new to solaris . so from where i should start?

at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation theres links at the left side to 'Get Involved' and 'Get the Source' and others. Some browsing ahead of you.

seanmcg, : got it. so what you did in opensolaris.

is it possible to compile opensolaris in ubuntu?

no

are you talking about cross compling

Possibly, if you're willing to run inside a virtual machine on Ubuntu - it'll be slow though.

abhi_, ?

seanmcg, : got it. so what you did in opensolaris.

are you asking what I did/do with opensolaris ?-)

seanmcg, : involvement

I work for sun :)

seanmcg, : great. are you in solaris or in other technology

seanmcg: good for you..

i work for jesus

botox_, I hope that works out for you :)

likewise

praise the lord

botox_ passes back out

abhi_, I work with solaris, and Sun hardware.

evocallaghan, : how can i compile the solaris if do't install it..

gmail is down?

sartek: No.

abhi_, get virtualbox, it'd be slow as timsf said, but you can compile it there...

bda: thx

seanmcg :ok, few days back i tried to learn linux kernel programming. it was quite difficult . is it so in case of solaris.

Hi. Can you please tell me about any documentation to set static routes and networking? Everytime I boot I have to perform ifconfig and route. Creating my rcscript is the old way, so what is the new way, then?

Hi

abhi_, with solaris kernel programming theres more documentation explaining things...

_FReeZ:Hi

Hello evocallaghan =)

http://ultravioletos.blogspot.com/2008/04/sxce-and-basic-networking.html

Check that out

abhi_, There are some great docs on the matter at docs.sun.cmo

s/docs.sun.com

evocallaghan, : ok.let me see it.

abhi_:Anything in particular your looking for?

Thank you, evocallaghan

np

evocallaghan, :I just want join or can contribute to opensolaris with my unix programming knowledge.

abhi_:Great ! Maybe install SXCE instead of using a VM.

abhi_: Do you know that Linux drivers are usually not commented, at all? How can I learn to create them?

_FReeZ, : can't get you.

abhi_:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/

and http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/40.17

I am seeking world peace.

abhi_: When you want to create kernel driver for some device, because it's missing, how can you learn that ? There is no doc like "writing solaris device drivers" and I haven't see any comments in current drivers. All I see is something like int rdcr(int cs, int ls) { ...some ioctls and hexadecimal values... }

evocallaghan, :ok, few months back i have installed the sxce but it does't boot during second boot. and it took more than 2 hr to install. does these things changed

evocallaghan, and seanmcg: help _FReez

help him? what about my cause? isn't world peace important?

abhi_: I'm asking specifically you, because I'm quite curious how to learn it without documentation + without comments.

_FReeZ: i am just like you . new to solaris. asking others how to learn it. so how can i help you... :)

_FReeZ: Read that http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3196?a=load

FrostCS: No rest for the wicked ;)

Great, thx a lot

np

We really should have docs.sun.com in /topic ..

i am just confused with various versions of opensolaris . few months back i received a opensolaris starter kit. it contains nexeta,belenix,schillix. but a opensolaris.com there is only one cd version of opensolaris is available...

what is it.

abhi_:Yea, just download SXCE

b96 is out and 97 is very close

evocallaghan, : where to get it .

I would skip 96 for 97. I am hoping there are going to be profomace improv due to SS12

opensolaris.org/os <-- click where it says "Download" :p

evocallaghan, it'll use the SS12 for b99..

evocallaghan, : could you tell me what is difference between express and opensolaris and nexeta.

Forget nexenta, opensolaris is a ubuntu-like solaris thing that is broken for the moment. Maybe a bit better when os2008.11final is out. So just stick to express as its the closes to a Solaris 10 Beta

seanmcg:Really !?

evocallaghan, : is it close to 10 or 11

10

As there is not 11

s/not/no/

What *are* you jabbering about?

evocallaghan, : ok

I won't start for this jibber-jabber in my courtroom.

SXCE is like a preview release for a potential Solaris 11. It isn't a Solaris 10 beta.

Tempt:If you say so

stand*

It has a traditional Solaris 'feel', packaging system and filesystem layout.

I made it short and sweet, please do carry on about all the fine details

Whereas "Indiana" or 2008.* is a different 'distribution' and has a different filesystem layout, packaging system and 'feel'.

seanmcg, : does sun have any plan to roll out a opensolaris cd just like novell release opensuse and suse.

Well, you can get a free OpenSolaris CD from opensolaris.com

It boils down like this, for a developer

Tempt: Indiana is different from solaris

evocallaghan falls flat on face.

If you want to build stuff for a Solaris target, want the broadest possible appeal or want to develop something that will see commercial use in the forseeable future, develop on SXCE.

If you want to fiddle around and tinker with new packaging systems or don't have the time to learn basic commands, grab 2008.*

Tempt: some where in sun site i read that SXCE is build from opensolaris. is it true

Sadly, Sun made some silly decisions with naming.

It's the OpenSolaris codebase, yes. The reason why people refer to "OpenSolaris 2008.11" etc as "Indiana" is to differentiate.

Tempt, : I think i got it ... SXCE = Indiana-fancy stuffs

No.

abhi_, no :)

SXCE = Traditional Solaris with New Features

OpenSolaris 2008.11 = Indiana

ooh

Indiana has new installer and new package management

seanmcg, : oh like this. then sun should keep SXCE separate from opensolaris.

Either way, if you want to develop; subscribe to some mailinglists, install something and get to work. Ignore the twisted naming pretzel and cut some code.

the codebase (ON, Operating System/Network) for SXCE and opensolaris 2008.11 is much the same.

If you want suggestions on what to work on, I'm sure posting to opensolaris-discuss mailing list will get you plenty of hints and suggestions.

when will be Solaris Express Community Edition CD - Build 97 will be released

hmm.. why does LU fail with out-of-space errors?

it created the root pool restricted to 4G, why?

rpool/ROOT 14G 18K 0K 100% /rpool/ROOT

rpool/ROOT/snv96 14G 3.9G 0K 100% /.alt.tmp.b-dKd.mnt

sorry, the BE for the new root.

there's no mention of a parameter to specify size..

(for lucreate)

has anyone gotten the error zfs_parse_bootfs error 6 when upgrading from build 86 (opensolaris install)

dj2: what did you do?

i attempted to upgrade

the grub stuff is installed correctly

but i get the zfs error

i can still get into my old be just not the new one

oh, opensolaris - i dont know i'm afraid.

http://gibbs.acu.edu/2008/07/19/opensolaris-upgrade-instructions/

that's what i did

abhi_, perhaps in about two weeks I think.

ok

so is there some undocumented argument i can pass to lucreate to tell it to make the zfs root BE bigger?

just give enough disk for it....

tsoome: i did

rpool/ROOT/snv96 14G 3.9G 0K 100% /.alt.tmp.b-dKd.mnt

paul assumes its restricted the zfs BE to 4G for some reason

aha, its cause its configured a 10G dump fs

dump it:)

Iam using xVM, can I use the zvol device directly from fdisk guest or should I first use newfs from dom0 ?

DottorZero: I'm pretty certain you should do the former

the xen volume appears like a hard disk to the domU

do you newfs hard disks before you install them in new computers? ;)

I am trying to use fdisk inside a guest over an attached zvol (as hdb) and after gave the w command I see a lot of driveready errors

Well, I'm sure most people partition them, if that counts for anything

did anyone of you guys upgraided from b95 to 96 and run xVM?

Upgrading Solaris: 97% completed

i had some weird behaviour after upgrades with xVM not working and all, but never the less opesol kicks ass

hello every1

hey

e^ipi finds a 'o', 'n', and 'e' key kicking about

you lost these.

here you go.

now you can use them from now on

afternoon

i guess it is, yeah

sup?

nm

ok, i'm back

has anyone triend zfs send\recv from solaris to pensol and vice versa?

or knows that it might have problems?

the vice versa bit may not work if you are using a newer version of ZFS than the recieving end

i have opensol on my laptop

and before the upgrade i've learned about this functionality (which is awedome!!!)

so i've backed everythive backed up everything using zfs send to one of my solaris servers at work

*awesome

oh, wait, if you're just backing things up, you can store the binary dump anywhere

another solaris box, tape, windows, whatever

yeah but those are docs and stuff

i meen i like the fact its like a copy but way cooler and i have the whole snapshot and incremental backup thing also

so, when i've restored everything back after the install of 96, i got a system panic after a reboot trying to mount zfs filesystems

and the safemode crahes also

i got curious, installed b95 and 96 on 2 more stations, and i get the same crash

any ideas?

well i guess not

so i'm off to sleep

good night everyone

Hello, I'm using OpenSolaris on i386, and some special keys don't work. For example home, end, pageup, pagedown. Any suggestions?

man stty

you can also use a shell which supports that, like /usr/bin/ksh93