Hi Tim, > In looking at the Hipster package manager I see that this package is > > "system_display-manager_lightdm_gtk-greeter.p5i" but I do not know what > is > > in a p5i file nor how to decompress it to get just the binaries that I > can > > copy over to test it along with the slim option to see which looks > better. > > Since you have OI installed and running, can't you just install the login > greeter and use 'pkg contents' to get the contents and then use some > scripting to total up its size on disk? Or would that pull in way too > much stuff? > > I am thinking that this might be possible. Perhaps setup a non-global zone and install the package there so that I can trace down the component sizes. Will have to figure out how to create the non-global zone and then do this.
> > On a good side note, I have installed OpenIndiana on a native partition > so > > that I can do some development on both the OpenIndiana and SmartOS > projects > > and REALLY like the OpenIndiana OS running on a native partition. > Already, > > I am seeing myself rebooting into my previous Ubuntu 18.04 less and less. > > If I could find a way so that OpenIndiana could see my Ubuntu 18.04 > "ext4" > > partition so that I cold access some of those files then I might even try > > to stay with running OpenIndiana always. Any ideas on how to see or mount > > the partition since the OI file manager does not see it by default. > > That's been discussed in the past, you might want to do some searching in > the mailing list archives. It's probably a couple years back in the > archives, if I had to guess. > > There is no native driver for OI to support ext2/ext3/ext4. Apparently > the filesystem in userspace (FUSE) code worked at one point, but IIRC > it's not currently working. That would likely be the easiest approach > to get minimal access to ext volumes, but again, I don't think it's > working right now. > > Yea, I was digging around the Internet and it seems that there is no real support for this. Perhaps, I can dig into the FUSE code at some point to see if maybe I can get it working in the near future since I think that it would be useful to be able to mount different filesystems as well. Cheers, Lonnie > Tim > -- > Tim Mooney [email protected] > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) > Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Best Regards, Lonnie T. Cumberland, PhD. Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
