Re: CDE Desktop

From: UNIX Museum (unixmuseum_at_verizon.com)
Date: 02/18/04

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    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').
    >
    > -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.
    >
    With xvm manager, you can do all kinds of things: concat, mirrors,
    stripes, create/change subvolumes, snapshots,... the list is long...

    I guess all these things can be done by typing, but over the years I
    have grown to like using GUI as much as possible... sgi is usually
    pretty good at creating useful GUI, and typing cryptic commands doesn't
    make me feel good about my abilities anymore... It's not just pretty,
    it's actually useful... But it's just me though...

    XVM Manager will indeed let you indeed partition a drive, but will give
      you the option to partition in multiple different ways, depending on
    your needs...

    Now if we're talking fresh partition and OS install, then yeah xvm mgr
    is useless... fx will do then... Add_disk would too...

    I didn't buy XVM BTW, at least I don't think...

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