On Friday, October 3, 2014 at 12:09:18 PM UTC+4, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> In article <m0jpa9$lfj$1...@dont-email.me>,
> YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> writes:
> > On 10/02/14 15:52, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> >> Phi Nguyen <phind...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> It's bare metal sir
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how such a device will show up; likely not with devaliases
> >> but you should walk the device tree (from the prom)
> >>
> >> Surely, this must be documented how you boot from the disks mounted
> >> through the ILOM.
> >>
> >
> > It may depend where his laptop is in relation to the server.
> >
> > But TBH it fails more often than it succeeds. It will be quicker if he
> > sets up an AI server (in a VM if his laptop is not running solaris)
> Yes, it's very difficult to do it across a WAN - all the SMF services
> keep timing out due to slow CD access, and you will spend an hour or
> two repeatedly clearing them until you get enough of the system up to
> load an image into the local drives.
>
> I've had to do this a few times when it was the only way to install a
> remote system. It needs a boot-time option to disable all SMF timeouts,
> or that needs to be the default for the installation system's miniroot.
>
> --
> Andrew Gabriel
> [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
Please run "probe-scsi-all" , then after you will be able to see rcdrom

On 03/10/2022 12:54, Mohammed Zaid Patel wrote:
> On Friday, October 3, 2014 at 12:09:18 PM UTC+4, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>> In article <m0jpa9$lfj$1...@dont-email.me>,
>> YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> writes:
>>> On 10/02/14 15:52, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
>>>> Phi Nguyen <phind...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> It's bare metal sir
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how such a device will show up; likely not with devaliases
>>>> but you should walk the device tree (from the prom)
>>>>
>>>> Surely, this must be documented how you boot from the disks mounted
>>>> through the ILOM.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It may depend where his laptop is in relation to the server.
>>>
>>> But TBH it fails more often than it succeeds. It will be quicker if he
>>> sets up an AI server (in a VM if his laptop is not running solaris)
>> Yes, it's very difficult to do it across a WAN - all the SMF services
>> keep timing out due to slow CD access, and you will spend an hour or
>> two repeatedly clearing them until you get enough of the system up to
>> load an image into the local drives.
>>
>> I've had to do this a few times when it was the only way to install a
>> remote system. It needs a boot-time option to disable all SMF timeouts,
>> or that needs to be the default for the installation system's miniroot.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Gabriel
>> [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
> Please run "probe-scsi-all" , then after you will be able to see rcdrom

8 years, not bad.
Anyone know what the record is?

--
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On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
> 8 years, not bad.

This may be the fault of the NNTP server. I once answered a very old
query and did not know it was old until you pointed it out. (I never
check the dates.)

> Anyone know what the record is?
>

On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
>
> 8 years, not bad.
> Anyone know what the record is?

A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
about converting K&R C to ANSI C. The original post was from 1992! So
the record is at least 30 years.

On 04/10/2022 20:11, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
> On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
>>
>> 8 years, not bad.
>> Anyone know what the record is?
>
> A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
> about converting K&R C to ANSI C. The original post was from 1992! So
> the record is at least 30 years.
>

:-)

Good to see some of us still listen/read on here.
Not seen a good query for a while though

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On 04/10/2022 19:19, nemo wrote:
> On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
>> 8 years, not bad.
>
> This may be the fault of the NNTP server.  I once answered a very old
> query and did not know it was old until you pointed it out.  (I never
> check the dates.)

Hmm, and the lesson here is? :-)

Remind me not to eat any food at yours :-)
>
>
>> Anyone know what the record is?
>>
>

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On 10/7/22 11:59, YTC#1 wrote:
> On 04/10/2022 20:11, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>> On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
>>>
>>> 8 years, not bad.
>>> Anyone know what the record is?
>>
>> A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
>> about converting K&R C to ANSI C.  The original post was from 1992!  So
>> the record is at least 30 years.
>>
>
> :-)
>
> Good to see some of us still listen/read on here.
> Not seen a good query for a while though
>

Yeah I saw the episode with the 30 year thread necro just now.

I'm aware I'm doing a two month thread necro here, too, hah!

Y'all doing alright out here?