Hi,I am trying to install solaris 10 from CD. After installing CD1 I reboot the machine without the cd in the drive. When it tries to boot from the hard disc it is gving the following error:/pci@0, 0/pci-ide-@1f, 1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:a: disk read error, sector 90919458Short read 0xffffffff chars ...

Hi Guys,I've set up mirroring on 2 160GB disks on my x86 install (DELL SC1420).However, on the root disk, i need to perform some of the following commands nvaliasshow-disks These are not available in x86, but are required to make my redundancy setup complete (to make Solaris switch from one to ...

I have been configuring Sun Blade 1500 with two IDE drives (each on their own IDE bus) as RAID-1 for the /, swap and /export/home partitions. This has worked well and I have always been able to test the RAID-1 recovery ability of such a configuration. However I am very unhappy to report that ...

Hey all.I recently installed Solaris 10 and most things were working out. The computer told me I was missing a driver or something like that, but I was still able to use the OS. Anyway, I was before an XP user and I had Aliant as my ISP. I have high speed and my ISP gave me software so that I ...

Hello: I need help about mounting Suse Linux Reiser FS on Solaris, please help.

Hi, while im used to get the connected clients ip while using the getpeername() command. This doesnt work on solaris.Code:if (getpeername((int) STDIN_FILENO,(struct sockaddr *) & name, (socklen_t *) & namelen)== 0) {temp_domain = (char *) inet_ntoa(name.sin_addr);}Any one has an idea ...

Hi, Can someone tell me how to install VNC on Ultra5/Sol9? I have tried and I cant seem to get it... did someone install it successfully? can you tell me?thanks!I was able to do it on Solaris 9 but for some reason Y can get it install/running on Sol10.Thanks!

HelloI am trying to install solaris10 x86 on an IBM Blade booting from SAN. The blade includes a fibre channel extension card (qla2312 from qlogic) and no internal drive.The installation procedure does not find any bootable device to install solaris on. I have tried the qlogic driver disk for ...

Hi Guys,What a shame but i am done with solaris 10installation but anyhow i could use the internet ? What should i do for it ?Thanks for helps

I don't see the usual rc.x startup and shutdown scripts to start or stop send mail.how do I stop the sendmail daemon?

I recently got a brand new installation of Solaris x86 up and running. The one thing that I'm hung up on is how to get reverse DNS working property with our corporate DNS server. All windows machines on the LAN behave as expected. They grab an IP address from the DHCP server and reverse ...

Hi. I am an operator hoping soon to become an administrator. I have been asked to setup a secure FTP server in solaris 10. Could somebody possibly outline the basic stages of what needs to take place. I would be grateful for any info offered. Thanks

I downloaded entire CDsInitial installation seems OK, but it failed when time after the software diagnosed the PC hardware and copy component into harddrive. When things done, it pop and said, failure.Please help

Hi,I am trying to install Solaris 10 and do not get very far. After the CD starts to boot I get an error message: "Cannot read fdisk table" and it just stops.Any ideas?I am trying to install this on a cPCI blade with a P4 Mobile processor, the HD is the master drive on the secondary channel and ...

Hi! I installed Solaris 10 x86 (s10_72) along with Linux on my notebook. Everything works perfectly, except the sound card, the system seems very solid and coherent, but the main problem is that the perfomance is very poor compared to Linux.The loading times of applications like Mozilla are ...

Trying to load Solaris10 from a jumpstart server running Solaris 8. I keep getting the error Unable to run cmd: /usr/sbin/sysidput. It seems to have something to do with networking. Does anybody know what this error is or a workaround for it.

how would I determine if flow control is turned on for a Solaris ServerI have multiple servers using multiple cards. Hme0 ce0 and ge0

i've just tried to install solaris 10 on a box with a Silicon Image 3112a PCI SATA adapter and encountered what seems to be (based on googling on the topic) a common problem: this adapter is unsupported under solaris 10 and you encounter a "no disk found" error once solaris tries to install to ...

Hiafter booting s10 sshd is not running. svcadm -v enable /network/ssh:default shows:svc:/network/ssh:default enabledbut svcs /network/ssh:default shows the following output:offline 8:56:03 svc:/network/ssh:defaultI know kill -HUP svc.startd is not the way recomended by Sun, but I had no other ...

Hi,I have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server. It has three 73Gig SCSI diska and three 146 Gig SCSI disks. This system comes with LSI 53c1030 controllers. The drives are hot plug and the dell backplane has a device that appears on the SCSI bus PE/PV 1 x8 SCSI bp.This machine hangs in configuring ...

Folks'es,in the old days, ie pre-S10, i used to add my static routes to /etc/rc2.d/S69inet.nowadays (ie with S10), this file doesn't exist anymore, so where am i supposed to add them routes?i tried SMC but couldn't find anything there either.any suggestions/ideas are welcome.thomas ...

Here is my system configurationAthlon 600MSI-6167 Motherboard (BIOS 1.6 08-30-2000)387mb RamMaxtor 122gb HD ATA/133Nvidia TNT2 Video Card 32mbI am attempting to install Solaris 10. I am booting directly from the dvd. The install immdiately freezes up on the intial blue screen. The text on the ...

Hello,I use sun solaris, and I didn't have any "plan", so I want to know if I can have update for solaris for free, and if yes, how I can download them.ThanksWIllits

Hi,I have the dns server and client enabled, but unable to access the server. The server is configured as a forwarder and the named.conf, rndc.key and rndc.conf file are the same which I use on Solaris 9 with bind 9.2.3.In Solaris 9 all works fine, but in Solaris 10, the server can not be ...

I have got a little problem with Solaris 10 x86.I have got a disk who contains 2 partitions, 1 UFS and 1 Fat32.Windows see fine the Fat32 partition, so Solaris can see this partition. But when I want to done a mount,I didn't find what is the block_device of this partitions.I didn't find it in ...

Hello, I have setup Solaris 10 OS on AMD64 and I trying to build the JK connector for Apache2 with Tomcat5, but I am not having any success at all with neither the Solaris nor the GNU gcc compiler. Do you guys have a compiled version of the jk_mod.so for AMD64 solaris I could use or point me to ...

I'm a Solaris newbie and downloaded the four CD images and burn into CDs. Then install from booting CD 1 successfully. However, after CD 1 installation finished and reboot, it cannot read my CD 2 or 3 or 4. I burned the CDs again but this still happens. Would anyone help me in this ...

System Specs:Athlon 64 3200+Abit AN8 Fatal1ty MotherboardBIOS 2/17/200580 gig SATA HD(Boot Drive)2x 160gig SATA Drives Striping RAIDATI Radeon All-in-wonder X600 Pro 16x PCI-ExpressOnboard Serial ATAOnboard RAID controller for IDE and SATAUSB 2.0FirewireOnboard 10/100/1000 Ethernetonboard 6 ...

Oracle 9i install on Solaris 10 fails at the Database creation stage with Ora error "Out of Memory"I have a Ultra 10 with 1GB RAM, 2GB swap and lot of space in the filesystem where I am installing OracleThe oracle release notes asks for increased value for shmmax, shmmni etc by editing ...

if any one know where the sun exam practise questions are avaliable, please send me a link addresses.i searched for almost 3 to 4 hours in google ,but i didn't find them. ok see u allbye

Hi,How do I find out if my NIC Card is gigabit enabled? I know the bge's are but is there a way of finding out?Thanks,Derekus

friends,i am new to this OS and i want to complete Hands-On to this OS..Plz help me getting some good tutorials(E-books,Brain dumps,websites etc). where i can find adminstative knowledge.thanks

I downloaded the CD image files but everytime I try to burn the image to CD it starts then fails complaining about an invalid CD disk. Has anyone else experienced this issue. I have confirmed that the images are correct and intact. I'm using 700MB FujiFilm disks and have not had this problem ...

any one know sun pracise exams sites other than this sun site. please forward to me.thank u http://www.sun.com/training/certification/resources/epractice.html

Hi,I have a dell inspiron 8100. It has 60 Gb Hard Disk with 3 partitions. (35Gb NTFS Win 2000, 10 Gb Blank, 10 Gb Blank). I am trying to install Solaris10 on it using CD's.Installation of 1st CD goes perfect and it converts the 2nd partition into aSolaris partition. After installing the CD 1 ...

Hi. I am pulling my hair out trying to get the service /network/dns/server to remain enabled after a reboot. I've tried everything that I can find on the 'net and I still can't get it working. It's a completely fresh install of the latest Solaris 10 (downloaded from the Sun site only last ...

I am currently running build 69 and I cannot connect my production server to the internet. How can I upgrade to the latest 03/05 version of Solaris 10 without doing a reinstall? thanks,Jason

Hi,My problem is that I am not able to start the in.tftpd on Solaris 10the identifier is svc:/network/tftp/....But I cant start this deamon with svcadmPlease give me a hint.Is the service general not available in solaris 10!thanks joerg

Hi, I抦 a new user of Solaris 10 and I抦 trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.1, but the OUI (oracle universal installer) doesn抰 show some of the boxes required to configure the installation (they are not visible). I don抰 know if this is because of the java version?any idea to solve this?Thanks. ...

I was just wondering if there is a way to allow only selected user(s) to view a file without putting them in a group. I mean does Solaris allow for permissions on a object to be set... let say something like Windows, I find it user-group-all a bit outdated.I know Linux can not do it, but I ...

hey friends, I am very new to solaris.I downloaded Solaris 10 for Intel from the sun microsystems site.I tried to install the solaris on a compaq presario sil6020 having AMD processor(1.66 Ghz and 512 MB RAM).I found the installation of Solaris a tough one.I have some questions :The ideal setup ...

While making my way through the basic administration guide I happened upon the chapter covering the Java Web Console. It seems like a very useful feature, except that it doesn't work on my system.When I try to type in my URL, it says "connection refused". When I try to run 'smcwebserver ...

Looking for a way to detect dual-cores on Sun systems, i.e., Sparc IV? I'm looking for code to do this programatically if at all possible. Thanks, -Bob

Hello friends:I am using Solaris 10 under Sparc.i am having some problem with Solaris Managemen ConsoleWith users -> users accounts -> edit a userwhen i click on Groups TAB i can read:The groups can not be listed. You can ....It has been running, but sice 1 day ago it doesn't...We don't ...

When I do an upgrade install of Solaris 10 the old dtlogin screen appears. With an initial install there is the full screen login. Where is this configured?

here is my ipf.conf, but I can't seem to have anyone hit my smtp port, incoming is blocked ! any idea?pass out quick allpass in quick on eri0 proto tcp from any to any port=25pass out quick on eri0 proto tcp from any to any port=25pass in quick on eri0 proto tcp from any to any port=22pass in ...

Since Solaris 10 express (5.10.1) 3/05 (start from 2/05), iscsiadm is provided as isci initiator;I have a Cisco iscsi SN5428 router, (the storageis Sun StorEdge 9980) I have some solaris 9 iscsiclients setup in our enviroment using the Cisco iscsi driver.I want to try the Solaris 10 iscsi ...

Hello, I've just started with Solaris 10. I can't understand what I have to do for installing my printer (hp dj 5550 over usb). Can anybody help me.Is it possible that the reason of the problem is that the printer has got usb and a parallel interface?

My understanding is that vold should recognize iso9660 with rock-ridge extensions, and therefore mount a cd created by nero and show the long names.Environment: 5.10.1 03/05 Nope ... I can move the CD to another Windows box, and the long names are there. Allow vold to mount it on Solaris10, and ...

just switched from BSD to Solaris 10. Some probs to configure DVD-Rom/-rw:1 ATAPI DVD-Burner, connected as master to 2. IDE1 ATAPI DVD-ROM, connected as slave to 2. IDEOkay, I'll create the mountpoints # mkdir /dvd and #mkdir /burnerBut I've no idea how to add the devices to /etc/vfstab. In ...