December 16, 2006Hai!Have downloaded Solaris 10 OS, x86, for downloading onto WINDOWS ONLY Platform - Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System. They are Solaris 10 11/06 x86 CD 1 to CD5.I don't have a CD writer or DVD writer to burn the software onto CDs and then install it. Kindly let me know if it ...

Hello, this is my first post, and I'm new to Solaris 10. I recently installed Solaris on an Intel architecture from a DVD, and the internet doesn't work. The problem apparently started at installation. When I first booted from the DVD, the command-line screen before the actual installation ...

Is there a native virtual machine 0n Solaris 10 x86? What is it called, if so?Message was edited by: JasAdams

Hi!we磖e currently using Solaris 8 and think about buying a new SUN (Solaris 10). Unfortunately, there is no support for our primarily used software yet.So I have to try out if it works together. I must say, that I am a programmer and not a system administrator - anyway I have to check the ...

I downloaded and burned the 5 CDs. I booted the Proliant with disc 1 entered all the parameters but the install chokes saying it can't find the disks. I'm running a single 9GB drive on the RAID controller.. I'm just seeinf if I can install it but I can't get past this part. I tried copying ...

Hi Friends,Can i install Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.1.0) on Solaris 10.Dirish

I've installed Solaris 10 11/06 x86 selecting the "development" install, and I assigned 7GB to the root slice and 3GB to /export/home. The install goes fine, so I then install Trusted Extensions. After installing Trusted Extensions and rebooting, the Trusted Extensions CDE desktop is not ...

I cant see the inbuilt NIC on my SOLARIS 10 BOX. x86 Dell dimension 2400.I tried to execute the ifconfig -a but i only see the loopback interface Lo0 and i can ping it buy i cabt see the Ethernet NIC (hme0) according to how solaris explains it.please help

Hi,I am very new to Solaris and have a problem with pdf Documents on an x86 AMD 64 System. After installing the freetype patch 119813-03 the types in some PDF Documents (for ex. Solaris 10 Basic Administration Handbook) by reading the file with gpdf are unreadable.Anybody with the same problem ...

Hi All,I have configured Samba 3.0.13 on Solaris 10 machine. I have joined it to the samba domain using net join command. After that when i access any files on the solaris box from a windows machine, i am getting the following error. I have got this error from log.smbd file. Can anyone help to ...

Hi guys, I need some help, I recently installed a second drive in my AMD box and installed Solaris 10...Installation was a breeze, however, my grub boot loader doesn't work for windows drive. When I restart the computer, I get both windows and Solaris in grub but selecting windows and clicking ...

Is there a way to repair/reinstall Solaris 10 without touching the /export/home fs?fsck keeps complaining that the filesystem is bad, please rerun fsck. smc can not start and there is some strange message that hardware digits:and:numbers is trying to be our IP address. as a result there is no ...

Hi, i've already registered a sun online account but i cannot access sun solve knowledgebase. It stated that it requires for any sun online account in order to be accessed. Pls advise.thanksRgdsDaniel

Well, i dont think it's going to sleep as such. When I leave it alone for 1/2 hour the screen goes blank. I can still telnet into the box, but cannot get it to wake up locally, the screen will not come back to life no matter what i do, unless i reset.Its a sunblade 1000 with out-of-the-box ...

Supposedly, up until Solaris 9, the O/Ses supported up to a max of 1TB LUNs and 9 introduced the 2TB addressing features. To my understand 10 supports [MUCH] larger sizes greater than 2TB but how does this work? Must I install a driver? I have been programming for Solaris 10 some C-coded I/O ...

Hi All,Several months ago I created a raidz pool on a 6 disk external sun array. It was working fine until the other day when I lost a drive. I took out the old drive, and put in the new drive, and am unable to bring the pool back up. It wont let me issue a zpool replace, or an online, or ...

Hi all,I've just setup a zone, configured the OS on it and booted it. 1) From the global zone I can ping the zone2) From another server(s) I cannot ping the zone although I can ping the global zone3) From the zone I cannot even ping the global zone let alone anything else Any ideas whats gone ...

Apparently going into SMC and changing the mount properties to include a checked "Mount at boot" box isn't enough... Doing that causes it to be unmounted/remounted, but does NOT result in it actually being mounted at boot.I'm hesitant to put it directly in the vfstab since I want it to be a ...

HiI've just installed the new version of Solaris on two AMD64 servers. Problem is that 40-50% of the CPU is eated by system:-bash-3.00# sar 1 5SunOS dev 5.10 Generic_118855-33 ...

I need to configure root env. I was modified "/etc/profile" but I need to know if exists an upper level to this file where "something" could set "PATH" variable.

Hi,I am using solaris 10 x86 and i have two zones in my system. I am the root user whenever i run GUI based application on zones i am getting "cannot open display". In that case, i type "xhost +" in global zone and "export DISPLAY" in zone. I dont want to do it everytime. Is there any permanent ...

Hi,I am using solaris 10 x86 and i have two zones in my system. I am the root user whenever i run GUI based application on zones i am getting "cannot open display". In that case, i type "xhost +" in global zone and "export DISPLAY" in zone. I dont want to do it everytime. Is there any permanent ...

Hello,Is it possible on a Ultra 40, 2 opterons, to run at the same time three operating systems?I apologize that I maybe am in the wrong discussion group. But I have this question as a burning question. I need to use software from all three operating systems. At least from Windows XP and ...

Hi,I tried to use aio_read() on a tty device with a signal notification. However, I noticed thatsignal is delivered after 4 charcters input, not delivered until then. Here's the sample code,which is also available from http://www.octopath.jp/~yab/aiotest.c It runs without problemson ...

I am in the planning stage to upgrade to Solaris 10Does anyone knows if there are some compatibility issues with Solaris 10 and the SunFire 280R server and StoreEdge A1000 and 3310 disk array.Anything in particular I must pay attention during the upgrade?Thanks,

I've installed Solaris 10 x86 11/06 and Trusted Extensions, and when I open SMC and try to navigate to the "Trusted Network Zone Configuration Tool" that is supposed to be in the "Computers And Networks" section, it's just not there. Trusted Extensions are installed, I get the special Trusted ...

Hello folks,When sending mail from the command line in Solaris, the emails always say they are from admin@solarixbox.example.comWhat I'd like instead would be admin@example.comWhat file must I edit to make this happen?Many thanks in advance.Lurch

My SMC is a little confused... Trying to open the "users" (in system config) results in a failure this log entry:"The management domain file:/blah/blah does not exist or cannot be managed on server blah."No surprise since the name of the server is of the form "blah.domain.com", and that's how ...

I don't know if this is the right place for this thread, but it looked the most appropriate section to me. Sorry if that's wrong.Anyway, my question is short is - Is it a good idea to start learning Solaris? Ofcourse, without the details that's quite a stupid question, so below i will ...

i am running Solaris 10 06/06 and I'm trying to edit the /etc/hosts file. but when i VI the file, edit the IP address, and try to save it, vi comes back with "/etc/hosts" file is read only. i have changed the permissions for the file to 777 (i know its not a good idea but the system is on a ...

I am not sure where this should go, so putting it here.I have sun solaris 8 on sunfire 280 sparc.When i enter /var/tmp and then ls , i see the following bunch of directories -aaaf2aW aaap2ayAraaa9Ta4Df aaaIBaajoa lot of file.Now when i go to do a rm -R * this is the error message -rm: Unable to ...

According to the website on http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/what_you_get.jsp the Java Directory Server is included with the Solaris OS. I've worked with this software through the Java Enterprise System (JES) so it didn't take me much thinking to check out the directoryserver(1M) manpage. ...

Hi Folks,I've got a Solaris (x86) box and am unable to add any entries to my crontab via crontab -e# crontab -e534Instead, I get a number and never see my crontab, and can't edit it either; I have to Control D to get out. What I've been forced to do is stop the cron daemon, manually edit the ...

I installed Solaris 10 06/11 on an x86 PCI found that XSun drivers works well for my video and displaybut when login to Sun JDS the Colors are limited.all descussions I saw in the forum are about Display Resolution , But I think that it is a Color Depth ProblemPlease Can any one tell me how to ...

The diskless client starts to boot. I am booting via telnet. I am using snoop to see what's going on from the main server. Rarp responds with the correct ip address. The cursor starts to spin for a while and stops. On snoop it stops and says "syslog R port=32772". Then after a minute it keeps ...

Hello all.Where i can find information about differences between fletcher2, fletcher4, and sha256 algorithms for ZFS checksums?Thank you.

Hi Team ,I have seen the below error messages in /var/adm/messages. Please let us know the reason for this error.Error Message:Dec 26 19:25:54 WEB3 ip: [ID 995438 kern.warning] WARNING: High TCP connect timeout rate! System (port 80) may be under a SYN flood attack!Regards,R. Rajesh ...

Is it possible to expand root folder? Because now I have 6.4 GB and it is not enough to use or I have to format disk only.ThanksOhm

Hi, I'm using Solaris 10. I'm trying to get my internet up-and-running. I use a D-Link DWL-G520 network adapter ( http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=12 ), and have installed the ath driver(v0.5 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ ) and wificonfig(v0.3 ...

Hi I have installed the Access manager 7.0, Sun java system app server 8.1, Sun sirectory server 5.2 through JES installer on solaris 10 zone AM55-zone. Installer summarry is below, which shows installtion complete without error, but I am not able to launch the amserver login page.Any ...

I am a beginner of Star Office, I used Microsoft Office (Access), now I have to open some files with extension .mdb with Star Office base, how I can do it?When I try to open my mdb file I get the choose filter mask, What I have to select on?Many thanks for your cooperation.Lorenzo ...

hello forum friends and happy holidays......I have an Ultra e450 server with a fresh install of solaris 10, being new to this platform and linux in general, I most likely didn't select the right settings during install....can someone tell me how to go back in and configure.....HELP

I have an ultra 10 running solaris 10 06/06. when i boot my system and run the ifconfig -a the hme0 interface does not show up, but i can type "ifconfig hme0 plumb up" and the interface will go up. is there a file that i need to edit to bring the interface up on boot? thanks in advance for the ...

I have set up Oracle 10G to use project.max-shm-memory.When I use ipcs -J or ipcs -a, I can see information about oracle.But when I set up project of mysql, and start up mysql daemon with mysql user.I can not get information about mysql with Iipcs -J or ipcs -a.Do I lose something ?Thanks for ...

Hi.I just installed Solaris 10 11/06 release on one of our servers. We've previously installed the 01/06, and 06/06 releases on other servers successfully.Our NTP configurations are very simple:driftfile /etc/inet/ntp.driftserver 0.north-america.pool.ntp.orgserver ...

Hi, I am in the process of evaluating the Logical Domain functionality on T2000, installed Sol10_11/06.Only packages installed are SUNWldomr.v & SUNWldomu.v. Could not locate any "ldm" binary nor the man pages. Am I missing any more packages/ software?

Can i install SunRay Server in a non-global zone?

I installed gcc 3.4.6 on a Solaris 10 x86 box. I have the right install from sunfreeware and I followed the directions given. When I run the following simple program I get a ton of errors:#include <iostream>using namespace std;int main(){cout << "Hey you!";}Here is a sample of the ...

I am getting error message in cron/log given below -cron/at-jobs log warning about not obtaining latest contract from popen(3C)I found the patch but not sure its required restart or not.Help!Asit

I have solaris 10 installed on an E6900 server which is clustered. May someone out there help me on how i can create the containers and also how possible it is to installed different databases, ie, oracle,informix,sybase in the containers.