Re: CDE Desktop

From: Christopher R. Jones (c.r.jones_at_larc.nasa.gov)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:47:34 -0500

UNIX Museum wrote:
>
> Andree Plumeier wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'am new to Irix. Try few days to install 6.5.20 on my O2. I have read
> > there is a CDE Desktop. (dtgreet ... works fine)
> > How can I use CDE as the default Desktop?
> > By the way, where can I find doku how to part my disk? Have a 73 GB Disk
> > and 10 GB usr 1GB root. The rest is on other slices but I am not able
> > to mkfs_xfs.
> > Thanks for any hints
> > Andree
> >
> I'm not sure why one would want to cripple an sgi by running CDE instead
> of IRIX Desktop, but there is a patch to install I think... I haven't
> tried it (and will never, ever do that to my sgi), but it should work...
> If you want CDE that bad, I would suggest investing in an HP-UX or
> Solaris box, not shooting IRIX Desktop with CDE...
>
> As for the disks, why not try xvm? It would let you do all kinds of cool
> stuff with your drives...

UNIX Museum,

I'm curious... what cool stuff could you do with xvm? Doesn't xvm require a licence to be
purchased? I know that you can use xvm for clustering and other things I believe that
aren't part of the general xlv package.

Using xlv is just the simple way of taking a number of smaller disks (let's say 9Gb's) and
logically grouping them together with/withouth striping to be presented to the user as one
large disk... like making 4 9Gb's look like a 27Gb disk. I'm sure that most folks on here
use xlv's all the time. I know I got em' all over the place (my largest xlv is a ~16Tb
filesystem).

But I still don't see how xvm *or* xlv could be the solution to the question Andree posed
above - which sounded to me like he was trying to figure out how to partition up a 73Gb
disk. The answer to that would be 'fx -x' (choose '[r]epartition' and then '[e]xpert').

-chris

p.s. - I fully agree with the CDE comment... if you want CDE, best to use a SUN box.
Personally I use 'enlightenment' (from freeware.sgi.com). Looks *very* nice on IRIX. 

-- 
Chris Jones
ASDC Senior Systems Administrator
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