Re: CDE Desktop

From: Andree Plumeier (aplumeier_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:58:22 +0100

Hi,

Christopher R. Jones wrote:
> 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').

That is absolut correct. Sound like xlv is something like volume
management. Not the best way for one disk.
I have done fx -x and parted the disk. Now I am not able to do a
mkfs_xfs /dev/dsk/dks0d2s3
I do not understand where the differeces are, in other UNIX ( like
solaris) I can do it this way. Partition , mkfs .... and then mount the
filesystem. Maybe the problem is somewhere in the xfs filesystem ?
Andree

>
> -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.
>