Where can help me ?I want to install solaris and have downloaded all five parts of the DVD.After unpacking the zip-files and get one iso-file I have burned the iso-file on DVD - with nero, pinnacle instant cd/dvd under windows and under suse-linux with k3b.But the dvd doesn磘 start by booting, ...

Usually, /dev/md/dsk is not present unless you have metadisks on your system, on creation of a metadisk you will get a record for this disk automatically but they won't get cleaned up on removal of a metadisk.Is this behaviour intended? I cannot see what for it would be helpful to keep ...

I get the following error when installing Solaris 10 on a system when trying to install the contents of CD #3. I'm doing a fresh install from scratch. I've re-burned the CD a few times and have downloaded the image for the CD a 2nd time. Is the behavior below expected or have I somehow messed ...

I installed Solaris 9 and 10 beta and was hoping the latest release would be better. I was dissapointed. It is exactly the same hardware and yet Solaris 10 won't install. After trying 4 times I gave up and downloaded ubuntu. I was up and running within minutes. What a shame! If SUN really ...

Hello,I worked in the past with Solaris 7, 8 and 9. In that case I used admintool to configure new users. With Solaris 10 I miss this nice graphical interface. I searched by using: 揻ind / -name admintool?but there is nothing. My computer: SUN ultra 2.Thanks in advance.Best regards. ...

Does anyone know or has heard when Solaris 8 will be End of Life

I need to have my FQDN in my /etc/hosts file like123.45.67.89foo.bar.comfooWhen the machine boots it gets its IP address from a DHCP server and the entry in /etc/hosts looks like123.45.67.89foo # Added by DHCPI have set /etc/defaultdomain tobar.comand `domainname` returns 'bar.com'. I am not ...

i got solaris 10 installed and haven't been able to figure out how to get any shell (i've tried switching between csh, ksh, etc.) to give me command line completion. i suspect that there is some really trivial way to do this, but i couldn't find the enlightenment via google or any forums. ...

I starts my first sun solaris on SunFire V240 (shipped without keyboard and videocard) and would like to use some X tools such as DHCP administration remotely from my workstation.After I tried xhost +myworkstaton:0.0 i recevied message: unable to open display "".I checked /dev/fb - and of ...

Anyone have any idea on how to do this? I've tried using partition magic 8, the drive is picked up as having a BAD filesystem, when i attempt to format it using NTFS then i get an error 4 regarding the mbr...any help please?

Hello,I've got an odd problem during the installation of Solaris 10.When installing you can change the video,mouse and keyboard settings. If i change the keyboard from US_English (default) to Belgian (AZERTY), there is no difference.Its marked as a Belgian keyboard but it act like an US ...

I am having an issue trying to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. After selecting the CDROM as the boot device, I get the following:/pci@0,0/pci8086,962@2/pci9004,7880@6/sd@5,0:a: disk read error, sector 28370short read 0xffffffff chars readdisk read errorboot: source: open of ...

hi I am new to solaris.I have make partition on another derive, lest say c0t6d0, now I want to mount it, how can I mount it and also I have to copy data from another drive called c0t2d0. Pleas guid me thanksPaul

The 9GB IDE drive in my Ultra-10 is running out of space (surprised?). I have a 200GB drive laying around so I'd like to utilize if possible. What's the best way to back the system up so I can restore everything to the way it is now (just with bigger partitions). I'd hate having to reinstall ...

When X comes up, and displays garbage or worse ... how do I whack it back down again?The only two-propellar-geek trick I know is Alt-Ctrl-Backspace.That doesn't work ... even power off button doesn't work ... this is one tough operating system.(But it hasn't figured out how to prevent me ...

Does anyone know why does /proc files exist in solaries? Also why do we have access to these files?

What cd does the Solaris 10 documentation install from? I made and installed from 4 cds plus a not yet used 10/03 companion, but no cd seems to satisfy installer request for cd with documentation.Thanks for consideration.

When I run my S10 system (AMD64) over night, the system clock shows a strange date/time on the next morning.Also, every directory, that is mounted on swap (/dev/svc/volatile, /tmp) seems to be corrupted. If I execute a ls on one of those directories, I get: "value to big for defined datatype" ...

Hellowhen 'Im trying to compile source - ie. a more recent Gnus or xskat or what ever I end up with a make error:$ /configureOK$ /usr/ccs/makeFatal error: command not found for target (i.e. 'lick' or 'xskat.0')I've "googled" around for hours but couln't find a solution.Thank's for your ...

Hello!We have a problem:Our application is based on BAS by Borland. It works fine on Solris 9, but we cannot start it on Solaris 10.The trouble is with one of one of BAS components named 'osagent'. Under Solaris 10 it stops with error message: "DSAClientHandler:: Unable to bind port (0)".We ...

Hi. I'm trying to install DNS in a Solaris 10, But there is some strange and is that the inetd file is so short, and in the rc2.d directory isn't the S72inetsvc that is the file that start | stop -TCP services. I copied that file from another server and this is the message :"starting internet ...

I am doing jumpstart and I noticed that in a jumpstart theNIC 1 GB network interfaces on intel based systems are configuredas iprb (100 MB). I had to rename one of the nodes and ransysunconfig, and on reboot the network interface was configuredas e1000 . Considering that I have about 30 such ...

Hi, i' ve installed solaris 10 successfully on my AMD64 3200. It shows that i ve only one interface lo0 loop back :( I' ve 2 nics nForce networking controller and netgear FA311. None of them is installed. So i'm looking for drivers thank you very much.

Hi all,My Sun Blade 100 often crashes after a flash installation of Solaris 10. I have included some crash analysis. Any one can give some help? Thanks.David Solaris[TM] CAT 4.1 (build 526) for Solaris 10 64-bit SPARC(sun4u) Copyright ?2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents ...

On my Solaris 10 boxen, suddenly I cannot build stuff anymore that utilizes Apache's apr.This includes Apache 2 (2.0.53 and 2.0.54), and subversion.The funny thing is, I did build 2.0.53 a few weeks ago, and did not bump into the problem. Rebuilding it, with identical configure options, ...

As shown below, the SGID flag is completely ignored (whether setting or clearing) in Solaris 10 when chmod is used in numeric format.However, when using letter assignments, it works properly.$ uname -r5.10$ mkdir /tmp/testch$ ls -ld /tmp/testchdrwxr-xr-x2 kburtch staff117 Apr 20 12:00 ...

I noticed after installing solaris 10 that apache and apache 2 is loaded as wellHowever I am unable to configure apachethe operating system does not recognize he ./configure commandcan someone help methanksmich

Hello, I'm running solaris 10 with a minimal installation. I have my desktop and aplications (GNU). I have saw the looking glass project, and i like that... So, first, i need to install the Java Desktop System. How can i do that? I know that the JDS comes with solaris 10, i have the CD's, but ...

Hi All,We have an old product that was build on Solaris 6 (2.6), now running on Solaris 10 we get the error:ld.so.1: get_rnum: fatal : relocation error: file tds272b.so: symbol __sigaction: referenced symbol not found.I understand why this is happening and how to fix it but some of my colegues ...

Could i install linux applications on solaris 10 wihout using rpm?

I upgraded to Solaris 10 last night and tried to perform some admin work to user accounts, using Solaris Management Console. When performing the task, Solaris wants to verify user and password, the root password fails. The root pasword is correct because it let me login as root. Solaris ...

Hi everybody!!! I磀 like to know if anybody made HP Proliant DL380 G4 work with solaris 10.I didn磘 find this server in HCL for solaris 10.has anybody tried to install solaris 10 on this server?tnx very muchregardsThe player

Hello,I've installed Solaris 10 03/05 and am attempting to use the included Accessibility (explicitly the gnopernicus screen reader with Gnome). I have followed the instructions in the Java Desktop System Release 3 Accessibility Guide ( http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-7307) RE: changing ...

[SB Live! Platinum]HelloI'm struggling with a nifty prob:I installed the audio driver from www.tools.de/solaris/audio. Because OSS offers more features I'd like to change the driver. Prob is, that the OSS driver failed to attach because the other driver is attached to the device. I removed ...

Hi all,I have a Solaris 10 box. The 'uname -a " command on that box gives the following:SunOS 5.10 s10_69 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240The machine is currently running 64 bit kernel. To reboot it with 32 bit kernel I executed the following commands:/usr/sbin/eeprom ...

Hi. I am currently running a computer with Windows XP Professional Edition.Have already downloaded Solaris 10 files into my computer.How do I go about installing Solaris 10? I've looked through for documentations online and in the files downloaded but they are nowhere to be found.Thanks. ...

HelloI googled around but I couldn't find anything useful regarding w32codecs for Solaris. Are the codecs available somewhere?Best regards,Jens

Hi, Newbee here,emachine T6212AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+2.0GHz512L2 cache2000 MHz FSB512 MB DDRTrying to boot off DVD installation diskDisplay says:SunOS Secondary Boot Version 4.02Solaris Boot SystemRunning Configuration Assistanterror: 64 bit PCI bit len unsupportedThe root filesystem is ...

hi.I'm using Intel-based processor for my stand-alone computer running Windows XP Professional with a broadband connection. As directed by one of the guys here, and also by my own research, I found the documentation for installing Solaris 10 on x86 based computers.By navigating through the ...

This may invoke some violent responses, but i need to run some version of MS Internet Explorer on a Solaris 10 workstation. The workstation needs to access a web app that only runs on IE.I found out that MS used to provide a UNIX port of IE, but its been pulled, besides that was for SPARC ...

The title says it all, but could some one point me to a URL or tell me what's new in the currect release SE of Solaris 04/05.This is a general question, since I always have this problem to find out if it is worth downloading the monthly update, if they are no new or intersting features to play ...

I have somehow corrupted my JDS session such that I can no longer logon. I installed Solaris 10 about 3 months ago and after a little tweaking I got everything to work well. Then last week I decided to change my IP address. It was after that that my JDS session got screwed up. Now, when I try ...

I'm running Solaris 10 on a SunFre V890 and am trying to create state database replicas on the fc-al internal disk so I can create a Raid 5 configuration. Each time I run metadb -a -f c1t1d0s0 I get "metadb: Segmentation Fault" followed by "Segmentation Fault - core dumped". The OS was ...

Does anyone know how to get this working? The command "reboot" works.Thanks,

I have Solaris 10 up and running on an HP Vectra. Everything is fine until I attempt to ssh through my firewall from the outside world. I can ssh from my linux systems on the lan. But when I attempt to ssh from outside using either putty or ssh on another solaris 10 system the connection times ...

I've noticed Apache 2 comes preinstalled along with 1.3.Does anyone have experience getting version 2 running? Apache 1.3 seems to work "out of the box"... just set the httpd.conf as usual. How do I get 2.x to work?Without getting into the usual 1.3 vs. 2.x debate, does anyone have any ...

I installed Solaris10 in VMware and it works fine but i got only the resolution of 640*480 and all Windows like the Printer Admin or so are cutted at the bottom.Can anybody tell me how i can configure my graficcard (ala SaX2 or so) to set up an higher resolution?thx in advance...Winny ...

I am unable to patch solaris 10 through the smc console. I keep getting the following errorUnsupportedClassVersionError: com/sun/patchpro/model/PatchProListener (Unsupportedmajor.minor version 49.0)Does anyone know of a fix for this?

In Solaris 10 the default format for storing the package database has changed from a text file (/var/sadm/install/contents) to a SQL lite database.My question is: are there any plans to include some tools in the standard Solaris install that would allow queries on this database ?Practically I ...

HiI installed Solaris 10 , but when i login with CDE 1.6_...it works and login correctly , when i try to login via JDS 3 from login page it does not enterand come back to login screen again.CPU : AMD xp + 2000RAM :756does any one face same problem?anothe thing: my voice card does not works .how ...