Hi all,I磎 new with solaris - oh, I磎 using Sol 10 x86 - and have several Prolems. After successfully mount my DVD (磃rom wich I have installed the system) I try to install a package (In my special case SUNWsprot and SUNWarc). And there my problems starts ... I cant find any package like this on ...

Can it be done ?I would like to create a NFS server in a none root zone, but it seems as the NFS server parts are not supported in a sub zone.Any comments ?/Flemming

When I try and use smc to download and install new patches I just get errors. Has anyone be able to get this to work? If so what patch set and build are you on.

I have tried to use LVM to configure the c1t2d0s0 and c1t3d0s0 but fail.Below are the commands I used:#metadb -f -a -c 4 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7#metadb -a -c 4 /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s7#metainit -f d10 1 1 c1t2d0s0#metainit -f d20 1 1 c1t3d0s0#metainit d0 -m d10(modify the /etc/vfstab file to /dev/md/dsk/d0 ...

Hello,in both XFree86 and in Xorg X11 implementations, the driver for Nvidia cards include support for display rotation which is quite nice feature having display which support it. I like it in linux and also would like to give it a try in Solaris10/amd64 which I'm tryint to use as a developer ...

Hi, everyone.Just installed the system and got stuck with the simple thing. I have cd drive as secondary slave (in my linux it is /dev/hdd), and now cannot find the proper device for it to mount in solaris. I'm assuming that it is /dev/dsk/c1d1s0, but mount tells me that there's no such ...

Can I work with Solaris10 and Win2000 on the same disk? I have difficulties.

Hello,I've installed Solaris10 on amd64 box and now I would like to use some specific linux binary on solaris. I've found this Janus FAQ:21.Q:How much does Janus cost?A:Janus will be part of the Solaris 10 release and will be included in the Solaris license price. but unfortunately I'm not ...

thanks for ur help but my questions is that i dont have local inside usr and in all the websites the configuration as. how can i proceed as my smb.conf file is present in sfw. these steps i found out for solaris 8 what changes i need to work for solaris 10Locate the smb.conf File. It will be in ...

I think my machine will only cope with 32 bit mode. Solaris 10 seems to have a capability to run in 32 bit or 64 bit mode, but how do I install at 32 bit?Anyone know?

Hi,I am a newbie on Solaris.I've got a SUN Enterprise 450 (UtlraSparc 400Mhz), originally, it is installed Solaris 7 and work fine.Plan to upgrade to Solaris 10. Downloaded all the stuffs. I put the disc into the CDROM and type "boot cdrom". There was error stating that "Fatal SCSI error at ...

Network boot of Ultra 10 test machine from JS environment on a RedHat FC3 box all works perfectly with a Solaris 9 (0404) kernel and network boot directory structure.When attempting jumpstart with a Solaris 10 FCS kernel and jumpstart environment, afterboot net:dhcp - installI see usual boot ...

Hello I have a x86 Solaris 10 installation... and the swap entries in my vfstab are:/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 --swap-no-swap-/tmptmpfs-yes-So, it sounds to me that solaris is mounting a 600M area (my swap space in slice 1), in my /tmp directory... So, i think that the SO is sharing 600M to swap and /tmp! ...

I am trying to certify our product on Solaris 10. We have previously supported Solaris 8 and 9. The product installer consists of three CD's. Our user's copy a setup.sh script to a local directory and run the script. The script prompts for each CD in the order required. The installer fails at ...

Hi,Wanted to report this to Solaris Engineers.1. Change directory to /var/ld2. Now change directory to directory name 32.3. You can keep repeated step 2 again and again and again ... for a long time.Not sure why this is setup this way. But thought it was intersting that it was configured this ...

Hi, I bought this Quad Ethernet card today:X1034A 501-5406 Quad FastEthernet PCI (QFE/P)And I plugged it into my UltraSaprc 10.When I do an "ifconfi -a" it only shows me 2 interfaces- The default "HME0" interface- The loopback interfaceWhat do I need to do to see and configure the other ...

Hi, I have a converter to use a normal keyboard & mouse with my ultrasparc...but I dont know how to do a STOP-A sequence ...because a normal keyboard dont have a STOP key...How do I need to do this?Thanks,

Hey,Solaris 10 is supposed to be able to run Linux apps natively, right? If I wanted to run, for example, Americas Army (Linux) on Solaris 10, would this work?I have a Geforce 5700 / Viewsonic A70F+, so would I need some kind of "enhanced" drive to run games properly?I plan on switching to ...

I installed solaris 10..when I logged in as root I choosed Java desktop as my desktop...but it seems that it cant load the java desktop...at installation, I choosed default installation.Can anyone help me?

HI All,I have a 4-in-1 bge card and only use instance 0. At the momnet, I have just plumbed instance 1 and thus I am using bge0 and bge1. It says it is up and when I query it, I get a response from the same box to say it is up but I can't ping it, even from boxes on teh same IP subnet.As well, ...

Hi all,I'm trying to set up a disk mirror between the 2 18G disks in my Netra T1 200. Any idea how to do this?I have a decent understanding of Solaris, but I've never had the hardware to do this with before, is there a good starting point for this?

I just installed Solaris 10 on my Compaq laptop (WinXP, Solaris 10, & SuSE 9.2 LINUX). It works great. It looks great.....except for the 640x480 resolution. When I installed, it had 1024x768 resolution. How do I get this back?My video card is NVIDIA GeForce4-440 & it was properly ...

Hello,while working on mico.org project, we've added some functionality to exception handling to store and retrieve stack-trace when and where needed, to be able to print stack-trace of the uncaught exceptions ala Java-way. This is currently supported only on linux and uses backtrace and ...

Hi all,I am installing gcc-3.3.2 to compile a VNC server and also an apache server.It is my first time and I'd like to know if I should be very careful with some special issue. So any comments are welcome.

Can any one recommend a book or somthing, short of learning C, where I can learn Solaris Memory structures and really understand what they mean. For example, I have never really heard a good explanation of LWP.

Hello, I am new working with solaris, and I would like to know if there is any GUI tool for MySQL working for Solaris OS.Please feel free to reach me at caalfaro@gmail.comThanks

I just installed solaris 10, and when I launch the SMC to add a new user I get this error:May 18 12:26:24 kahoali.dyndns.org WBEM_Logging_Service[610]: The management domain file:/kahoali/kahoali does not exist or cannot be managed on server kahoali.I can't seem to figure out what it's ...

After reading the thread concerning Solaris Webmin ( http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=271&threadID=22658) I decided to give it a try.Running /usr/sfw/bin/webminsetup asks for the default login, but doesn't ask you to set a password. Then as the script runs it tells you to login with ...

I read administrator guide, but not found topic talking about root's profile. How can I set enviroment variables for root?Thanks in advance.Stephen Suen

When I run xterm from a non-global zone, I got the error message.#zlogin -C testzone# ./xtermERROR: Cannot open X display. Check display name/server access authorization.ERROR: Explorer failed to initialize.ERROR: Cannot open X display. Check display name/server access authorization.ERROR: ...

hi to someone tha can helpme!Im systems engineering student and i Need to configure de DNS service in an Intel Pc with solaris 10 instaled.What should i do?Thanks

i am unable to configure samba, iam trying to connect solaris 10 to windows machine. my windowes machine is in domain and also my solaris . when iam trying to map i get an error network cannot be found. i have added one of the domain user id to to my solaris using smbpassswd ido i need to add ...

Hi,Does anybody know how can i use emacs on solaris 10i tried to type emacsfrom a shell, but it responds me withemacs: command not foundwhen i install solaris 10, is emacs installed by default or i have to install it by myself?I am very new to solaris, can anybody help me?thank you in advance. ...

Hi,I am having a problem locating some devices:1. The /dev/sound is missing2. The sound server is looking for /dev/mixerctlI dont have any of the above. It's not that I don't have permission to access them... they are simply not there.- I did the full install.- I have an AMD 1.5Ghtz, AC97 ...

I am considering trying Solaris 10. I have been a big fan of freebsd but Solaris 10 sounds to good to pass up. I am going to install this on a Pentium I 166mhz machine with 512megs of ram. I plan to host a couple of sites on this machine. Probably averaging anywhere from 200 to 800 hits a day. ...

Hi, new to Solaris 10 here. Been using linux for a year or so, and I always feel comfortable with webmin running. But I can't figure out how to start apache out of the box. Can anyone give me a quick pointer?ta.Dave

I started working with Solaris 10 recently, and I am astonished that Sun didn't ship Solaris 10 with Sunscreen, but rather shipped it with IPF.IPF seems very clunky as far management and functionality. This move seems like a step backwards. Sunscreen was very straightforward, and was another ...

In a batch script can you use the su command with the password embedded?

Hi ,Did any one used password cracker , if used .. can you help me in autiomating it by shell script, as i am not good in writing the shell scripts , appreciate for the help Thanks,susesun

I'm an idiot and I accidentally chmod'ed 777 all folders and files within the / filesystem. Now when I try to login remotely I'm getting the "No Shell" message. I'm afraid to reboot the system. I can still access it via Webmin. Is there anything I can do to reset the security on those ...

I have installed Solaris 10 on an x86 machine. What do I need to do so that I can connect to it from a Windows PC using an SSH/ SFTP client? I have the SSH client on my Windows machine, I just cannot get a response from the Solaris machine.

When running the format command on a V440 with Solaris 10, I receive the below output. I'm concerened about the unknown controller message. Does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks,Mikeroot@bcksrv # formatUnknown controller 'MD21' - /etc/format.dat (15)Unknown controller 'MD21' - ...

Hi,I had initially dtlogin and I changed to gdm.But, gdm is very slow and I want to switch back to dtlogin.I was not able to find the steps for doing this!Can anybody tell me the sequence of commands that I need to execute to switch back to dtlogin?Thanks,Narendra ...

Hi,I installed Solaris10 in my ADVENT 7011 Laptop, installation was successful however the VGA drivers for my Laptop were not found and so the X-Windows could not load, I am not able to see the GUI.I used kdmconfig but in vain.Could you please let me know where can I get Solaris10 driver for my ...

Hi Folks,I have run out of solutions to try to get the Compaq Disk Array Controller from an HP DL580 G1 to work on Solaris 10. I downloaded the latest available drivers from HP for solaris 7, and updated the driver disks to "sol10" directory and version file as suggested. During install, the ...

#uname -aSunOS S10 5.10 Generic i86pc i386 i86pcNormal boot process, below warning May 27 09:23:50 S10 fmd[50]: [ID 741841 user.error] svc_door_create: cannot open /var/run/rpc_doorMay 27 09:23:50 S10 svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/system/fmd:default: Method ...

As far as I can see, 5.10 does not provide any new package management tools besides pkgadd/pkgrm.This is an area where Solaris could really be improved.blastwave.org/pkg-get is ok, but I what if I want to update bundled packages like SUNWapch*? I may, for example, want to use the bundled ...

I have a Solaris 10 core install server (SUNWCreq) and want to use PatchPro to manage patch updates. Initially, I tried to run "smpatch analyze" to see what needed to be patched, but it requires PatchPro, which is not installed. The documentation I found indicates that I must have the Developer ...

HiI am trying to install solaris 10 . I have checked theMD5 checksums of downloaded files. I had checked the concatenated file checksum and found ok.I have burned as iso image. When boot from DVD the installation process startsand stops saying that " boot/solaris/bootenv.rc failed"If i press F2 ...

Hi,I installed Solaris on a 6 Gb partition. There was win98 installed on my machine. So after the installation, there seemed to be some problem with the bootsector in the harddisk, it kept giving me the error 'Bad PDB' or something. So I restored the windows bootsector by reinstalling ...