I am new to sun admin.Recently i created the user Oracle and from then on if i login as Oracle user and type any command it says not found. The only command i can type to get result is pwd.I am trying this in Sun Ultra20 workstation. Can any one say where i did wrong?thanks for your time! ...

Hello,I am running Solaris 9/05 on a low cost Celeron-based PC. Recently I have purchased a Sil 3112 SATA controller and two SATA drives to work with it.When I booted Solaris it recognized the SATA controller but the `format` command did not see any of the 2 drives connected to it. What was I ...

am in the process if installing Solaris 10 on the Intel platfrom. I downloaded all 4 files sol-10-GA-x86-v[1-4]-iso.iso and burned them onto CDs. The first CD worked fine and most of the OS is installed. Then I got prompted for the second CD. when the CD was inserted, I got the ...

When i am using commands on the command line, it is very difficult to type in all the commands again and again. There should be way to reuse the earlier used commands, by using up arrow, down arrow or tabsHow to enable it?I am using solaris version 5.10.

How can a non-root user mount a usb flash device?As root, the device is mounted as:mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1tod0s2:c /mntThe vfstab entry for this is as follows:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2:c /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 /flash pcfs 2 no -This is running Solaris 8 on a SunBlade150 ...

Hi, I have the feeling that I might ask a stupid question but... Ok, I downloaded the DVD images. I have the images each of them on a zip file because that's how you get them. Now I'm supposed to burn the image into the DVD, but the image is split in 5 parts. So, how do I get the 5 parts ...

Hi,I have been Googling all evening to try and find a solution to this, but here is the problem:I have a PC built around an Asus P4C800-E system board, and I have Solaris 10 x86 01/2006 installed. I would like to get the Ethernet interface (Intel adaptor, running on a CSA bus) up and running - ...

Solaris 3/05 loaded just fine, recently patch 118844-21 installed GRUB as a bootloader, replacing the one that Sol 10 3/05 installed. Now the machine does not complete a boot. It loads the copyright notice and then hangs. Before this patch my laptop was quite happy. What gives?

Hi,I just tried installing oracle 10g(10.2.0.1) on my new machine(Sun solaris 10 x86) Intel 915 GAG with 512 RAM and 120GB SATA drive.After I started running ./runInstaller the following message came on console......Starting Oracle Universal Installer...Checking installer ...

To login as different user every time i am rebooting the system, and i know i am doing it wrong.Then how do i logout and login as another user?i can su and do, other that this do we have any commands to do this?

Hello all,I've downloaded and burned the Solaris 10 Software Companion CD ISO twice. Solaris 10 installer tells me it is the incorrect version - but there is only one version available.Has anyone else had this problem?Is there a resolution?Thank you.

The graphic and sound were correctly detected and works flawlessly. However, the network doesnt work. Any hints? I can not plumb the card. If I "ifconfig -a" then it printslo=: flags=20001...inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000There is no other network device or anything. I have also tried ...

I've seen other postings on this, but no answers. I feel like I've read one hundred articles but to no avail.I am trying to install Sol-10 onto a PC (Compaq Deskpro PIII with Intel 810 video card), and can't get the 'X' session to start. I've tried XSun, Xorg, agpgart, and nothing works. ...

I have a Latitude D600 (ATI mobility radeon 9000) and a CRT. Is it possible to have one large desktop spanning over both monitors? Ive read somewhere, that Solaris doesnt support that. Ive also read somewhere that Nvidia's driver does support dual screen. I have a desktop with 6200 AGP running ...

Weird, solaris 10 can't detect my amd atlhon 64 as being a 64 bit processor so it installs 32bit.

Hi, I am installing Solaris 10 on a W1100Z machine. Whenever I use the Solaris 10 installer, my PS2 keyboard is not working and GUI installation does not come up. The installation uses the command line. I can not continue installation because I can not use the keyboard. I also tried to install ...

Does anybody know if it is possible to replace linux on a laptop with solaris 10 and still have all the needed codecs for a full multimedia workstation?Is there good support for mp3, ogg, mpeg, avi, wma, mov and rm?Also are there any decent tools for audio cd ripping, burning cd's and dvd's ...

Hi AllRecently i bought Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.Already XP is instelled on that could somebody help me how to install solaris8 on that please.ThanksChitram

I am using SUN OS. My problem is we totally forget the root password for that machine. My question is there any option for us to retrieve the password back beside formatting the systems?Thank you

OK, I have Solaris 10 and Windows XP Home installed on the same hard drive. How do I make the boot loader (I think it's Grub) boot Windows automatically instead of Solaris?

Hi All,Could someone give me a solution for adding a new scsi device entry into the masterdb file for one of my Scsi card,during the installation,asX86 Solaris 10 is not able to recognise my SCSI adapter ASC--39320 (B). or the disk attached to it, .How does the system do a hardware ...

I need to check the connectivity of other sun systems in my network, in other words what is the windows equivalent for ping

Hi,we are running under Solaris 10 x86. Our system suddenly crashed a fewdays ago. Symptoms are quite bizarre.We found first that no ssh remote connection was possible. After areboot it was possible again for small amount of time to connect.1) All system commands complained exhibiting a ...

I am bit confused by my o/s whether it is 32/64 bit o/s.I could do isainfo -v - but this gives the capability of my system but not what is installed.As a work around to this i did $ file /sbin/init- says ELF 32 bit executableCan i take this as my o/s is configured for 32 bit.Is there any other ...

Hello all.I download last version from sun.com, unzip iso's and burn their to cd's.When i try to load (on different machines) from first cd i receive this errors:<div class="pre"><pre>/kernel/fs/specfs: undefined symbol '' /kernel/fs/specfs: undefined symbol '' ... several ...

I have created user Oracle in remote sun server and when i try connect and login as Oracle user using the CDE login screen, it does not allow me to login?whereas i could do it as root user. I tried using putty it connects as Oracle user. I need the gui interface to install Oracle.Help me out, ...

I抦 installing solaris 9.0 on the compaq presario series and I抦 getting some errors while doing the install such as ERROR : Could not create fdisk partition tableERROR : Could not label disksERROR : could not update disks with new configuration Along with some warnings likeWARNING: ...

while inastalling on x11 i am getting error mesg host sendmail " 717 : mu unqualified hostname abc unknown sleeping for retry host sendmail "717 unable qualified my own domain name --using atwhat is this error and what have to do

Hello, I downloaded Solaris express and managed to get it it all onto a dvd for installation last night. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jspI tried installing it today and found it to be not very helpful, I had 3 goes at it, each time deleting the partition and starting ...

I'm attempting to connect sun servers to multiple switches for high availability. There are a few options I see of how to accomplish this:1) Purchase QFE cards and run Sun Trunking on all servers (Ultra 10's)- According to the Sun Trunking page, Ultra 10's aren't supported/reccomended2) Use ...

Can anybody tell me if DMP,AP,DR are supported in cluster 2.2? Also, how solaris 7 & 8 are supported in Cluster 2.2 environment? If one setups a PDB suncluster running OPS, is it possible to run CVM 2.2.1 with solaris 7 or even 8 and have DMP/AP(incompatible with each other) and DR feature ...

We'd like to use two terminal concentrators in a SC 2.2 configuration. How is this accomplished ?

Can you have two servers set up in a cluster, sharing the same storagearray.

Hello, I would need to test a program on a dual-cpu (UltraSparc II) computer. Is there a mean to choose one of the CPU to execute my program? In both C and assembly language...Thanks by advance.Geraud

I am a systems administrator of several web services at a small Universityand need to have fail-over and mabey clustering for 3 web servers (differant IP addresses). I need to get the information as quick as possible. I am in the Chicago area and we have 2 Ultra 1 (sparc) workstations and an ...

I am a Product Manager working with customers using Oracle software on Sun Cluster 2.2. My question is, how can I configure a service to bind to logical/virtual address, so as to make it available at the same address after failover? Are there cluster specific steps that I need to take in order ...

Simple question: Is this supported? Is this possible? Do I need anythingelse beside the Media CDs or Solaris 7/8?The idea of this is to let our students try out HA. We don't haveany Sparcs left for this purpose, but we have lots of PCs.Thanks,Harald Backert ...

Not sure if this is possible at all but... Is there a product out there that will mirror the entire OS as well as the data on the clustered machines?In other words...if I update one server OS with a new application/upgrade can the mirrored server be updated as well? Essentially having the exact ...

Hi,I'm new to Sun clustering, but have experience with TruCluster for Digital Unix (now Tru64). I've been going through the products and pricing, and the Sun Enterprise Server 4500 advertises several "high availability features." But it's not clear what advantages these features buy you, ...

Could someone tell me the relationship between Solaris MC and Sun Cluster? Thanks!Bill

Hi,I am working as an Oracle DBA and planning to have sun clustering for our Oracle Database. The solution that I am looking for is to have a primary instance and a standby instance which is having a centralised disk array (disk arrays are mirrored by using RAID 1) as two nodes in a sun cluster ...

I'm new to Sun clustering and have an assignment with a client to fix, if possible, a non-working 2-node cluster (E250s). The cluster is running but only one node 'dev2' is a member. 'dev1' is configured but not 'in' the cluster. I finally found that the network interface definitions ...

can we run cluster 2.2 with solaris 8 ?thanks

Hi,i know that this question is some kind of strange. But is anybody out there who created a Sun cluster over more than 10 km.There are some solutions to extend FC over ATM, but i think none of themare supported by Sun.In my special case i need a cluster solution with 50 km between the ...

I am setting up a sun HA cluster using 2 E4500 servers. I have created 2 logical hosts, each one needs to host a Netscape iPlanet 4.0 web server sitting at port 80. Each logical host is serving up web applications for different clients.If I need to fail over one of the logical hosts so that ...

We are planning to purchase a tape library system for backing up the data on our cluster. I was wondering if any one ever used the Sun L1000 Tape library system with NetBackup. How do you like the L1000 and NetBackup? Is the L1000 tape library reliable? What kind of throughput do you get? We ...

Hi,We have requirement of separating two HA SUN boxes running Server Application over two different cities to handle distater scenario.Does any body know how can one implement ip failover procedures where networks are separated?DNS server solution may not work in our case as some of the ...

Does anyone know where I can find Sun cluster certification checklist published by Sun ? I heard from someone that it exists.I need to use it as a checklist of items/scenarios to test to ensure the cluster is configured properly and works as intended.Thanks for any info you can give. ...

I am new to the Sun OS and need to know about SunCluster 2.2 in a hurry. I have been told that if I am clustering two E220 nodes, that I need another machine (ultra 5) to monitor the cluster. Is this true? Thanks you very much for all your help!