hello there? server type:V240 after install the jumpstart flash archive, keep rebooting in the loop, error: cannot mount root on /pseudo/<a href="mailto:md&#64;0" target="_blank">md@0</a>:0,0 blk fstype ufs panic[cpu1]thread=140a000 vfs_mountroot: cannot mount ...

Dear all, I can know the today RAM installed in a Sun Solaris 8 machine by the command "prtconf | grep Memory", let says 16GB But, how can i know how much memory out of this GB is free or available for use? Joe ...

I'm trying to install a Sun OS 4.1.1 Rev B fom tape in a SPARCstation 2, but after install SunOS mini-root, it shows this message: can't find /usr/share/lib/ketables/layout_21 and can't find /etc/rc and the installation can't go on. What can I do to solve this problem? ...

The image was taken from a live system with NIS configured and now we are reloading it onto a new hardware. Any Ideas why the flash reloading or jumpstart process is failing? I'm getting these messages for the same flash image file. Extracted 3515.92 MB (100% of 3515.92 MB archive) ...

We're attempting to install a Netra 240 with a flash from a Netra T20. The error occurs when the network interface is configured. The T20's interface is a eri0 and the 240's is a bge0. Is there a way to ignore this problem or override it?

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get an archive built. I've done it a million times before but on this box (fujitsu primepower 250R w/ Solaris 9) it keeps bombing. command: flarcreate -n "FJ9" -x /Backups -x /PatchAdmin -x /jumpstart -R / /jumpstart/FJ9.flar output: ...

I'm not sure what the error means that it would cause the install to fail. Observing the /tmp/install_log, I can see the root disk file systems being made, and then: Beginning Flash archive extraction Extracting archive: EDHT208_FLAR_1 ERROR: Could not stop the extraction ERROR: Could ...

All, I need help with what needs to be done to use solaris Flash for disaster recovery between the disparate Server platforms listed below. I am concerned about the platform specific files that would be missing? Note: All our servers are installed with the SUNWCprog cluster through ...

i'm trying to create a flash install process including a postdeployment and reboot script and having some trouble determining exactly how to set this up. since i want the scripts to run on all clones, the documentation seems to state that scripts simply need to be put in the ...

Recently I flashed a box to create a flash archive. That archive was served out via NFS and "seen" by the client server I built. Used image to sucessfully build the client server, but the disk is not sliced up like my source box. Is there something I missed in doing this? Any info on ...

Hi All, How we can do incremental copy to tape using the tar command. Usually I use tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 <file_name> It is overwrite the existing file in the tape so how can I copy the new file with out overwriting in existing one in the tape Thanks and regards Sijo ...

Dear all, What is the use of /var on Sun Solaris 8? Thanks, Joe

Dear all, Our Sun Solaris 8 Server is running in multi-user mode, I want to know how to switch to single user mode? One more question, how to switch to OK prompt? Regards, Joe

Hi, I have veritas installed on my sun box. I can find out the inode utilization of a ufs file-system using /usr/bin/df -F ufs -o i <File-system>. But is there a command to find out the inode utilization of a vxfs file-system ? Could you also let me know if I'm posting my message in ...

Dear all, I am using Sun Solaris 8 and the /var is nearly full recently. I found that there are files of large size in /var/audit and I am going to remove them to free some spaces for /var. Can I do that without affecting the OS operation? Thanks, Joe ...

Dear all, How to check the last login time in Sun Solaris 8. Any command or file that records it? Thanks, Joe

Hey guys and gals, I think I really my have screwed the pooch on this one, :-) Yesterday I was experimenting with creating a flash archive for disaster recovery purposes and not having a tape drive connected to the box i simply unmounted the partition where /export/home was mounted and told ...

Dear all, How to check last reboot time on Sun Solaris 8? Thanks, Joe

Can some body help me to point out major differences between solaris 7, 8 , 9, 10. Actually this is the most common question of interview and also this is required if some proposal needs to be suggested to customer for upgrading to latest solaris version. Cheers Amit ...

I have been flashing V440 servers with Solaris 9 in my environment. After the flash install, my systems do not stop probing each NIC port whenever the system reboots. Can this be stopped? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Ken Here are the probing messages. configuring IPv4 ...

I've got four V440's here, one setup as client wants, with four way mirror. Other than that totally standard solaris 10 install. I want to set the other three up identically, but I'm reading that it's not possible to combine a flarcreate with svm running on the master. I'm actuall ...

Hello, I am trying to understand the details of layered flash archives. The concept is easy enough: you can create a master flash archive and then layer additional differentials ones on top of the master one. But I am unclear in the actual dynamics, particularly on a jumpstart install. It ...

Hi, I have a jumpstart server with Solaris 8 02/02 OS image.When I added latest Solaris 8 2/04 image to the server under /jumpstart/OS.I am not able to install client using new image. Following is the error coming. {1} ok boot net2 - install Resetting ... screen not found. Can't open ...

Basic question: How do I identify Solaris 8 version? We have numerous machines (60s, 80s, V240s, etc) all loaded with Solaris 8 07/03 (and earlier). Some software we are loading requires us to have Solaris 8 02/04. uname -a gives me tons of info, I suspect that the ...

I'm getting the following error message when I attempt to check any jumpstart class files, including those provided with Solaris. # /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -c /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_9/Product /jumpstart/Profiles/developer.profile Processing profile Please reboot the system. There are ...

During the OS installation phase while jumpstarting, the output is as follows for Solaris Volume Manager (see below). To begin with, why are SUNWmdr and SUNWmdu packages trying to install? They are not mentioned in my Profile file, neither are they included in CORE OS. Is this a bug and has ...

Morning folks, I have a working jumpstart environment, and a generic sysidcfg file used for all our systems here. I can jumpstart a variety of systems here such as Sun Blade 100, 150, V210's, and Ultra 10's with my existing config. We bought a new SB 1000's and it consistently drops to ...

Hi, I'm trying to install the perl modules needed by my applications in a sparc server SunFire V210 with solaris 9 64bit. All the attempts fail because the interpreter is compiled with forte, this is the explanation i got. I found a solution in CPAN called perlgcc but it doesn't work it ...

I am new to use of mirroring during Jumpstart ( I just upgraded my Jumpstart server to S9-09-04), and can't get past an error that says: Error in file "Profiles/us087.profile", line 5 metadb c0t0d0s7 size 8192 count 3 ERROR: Invalid keyword Here is the profile in question: ...

Hi, I am having trouble automating our install process with Solaris 10.I have jumpstart completely automated and have added some post processing scripts to set up meta mirrors on the root disk. The problem is that when the O/S is freshly loaded, the system will ask this question during the ...

In a month I will need to install Solaris 9 on multiple SUN servers via a jumpstart process. Now, I've done this a few times using a SUN server running SolarisOS. This time Im on a tight schedule since it requires going overseas to the client's site. I have 2 scenarios available to me: 1. ...

I am trying to build a jump client using the command boot net -install. After running the command, the client easily find the jumpstart server and identify its ip and host name but then can not boot at all. It exits with the error panic - boot: Could not mount the filesystem Here is the ...

Hi, i have a Sun Sparc 10, but after the Memory test it hangs. Waiting for RAP/RARP Packet. I have a Twisted Pair Ethernet cable. I type watch-net and I become the message: Using AUI Ethernet Interface Lance register test succeeded. Internal loopback testsucceeded. External loopback testLost ...

I have setup a jumpstart server using solaris 9. After running boot net - install the process runs ok and finds my sysidcfg file ok . . . however the installation stalls at the 'The Solaris Installation Program' screen. in order to proceed i have to manually press 'F2_Continue' why is ...

I am setting up jumpstart server on Sparc V440 for x86 installation, when PXE from a Dell2850, the Dell2850 prompt as following: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 32-bit Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. WARNING: pmap_kgetport: ...

All, I have a V490 UltraSPARC IV+ running 4 @ 1.5GHz processors and 16GB of RAM. I'm trying to boot it to a diskelss server running Solaris 9 09/04 clients, and get this error message every time I try to do so: krtld: load_exec: fail to expand cpu/$CPU krtld: error during initial load/link ...

Hi all: We have a SF250 Solaris 9 server, serving as solaris 10 X86 jumpstart server.... Or fail is that no matter how we make the sysidcfg file for our clients... after the installation the kdmconfig programs ask about Xsun or Xorg Xserver setup.. We have deal to make the Xsun video ...

I am setting up mirroring and obviously want to be able to setup both disks as bootable. I run: # installboot /usr/platform`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 during my jumpstart config, only for the log to say that : /usr/platformSUNW,Sun-Fire-V210/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk: File not ...

Hello, My boot server is configured for tftpd i can install Servers and stations thanks network. i have one device wich canbe booted from my boot server. But in this case I have delay about 1 sec between rarp packets. So, when I install server and stations there is very quick rarp answer. ...

Hi. I'm pretty confused with this. Our jumpstart with one V210 wont reboot after running the finish script as it should. Here are the last lines of the jumpstart: Finish script finish execution completed. The begin script log 'begin.log' is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after ...

I'm after help with setting up a finish script to install vxvm, vxfs version 4.1. Has anyone done this recently and could point me to the correct way of doing this via a finish.sh script.Basic issue is that I need to installed some packages then patches then packages again. any help would ...

I set my profile up as follows: metadbc1t0d0s7 size 8192 count 2 metadbc1t1d0s7 size 8192 count 2 metadbc1t2d0s7 size 8192 count 2 metadbc1t3d0s7 size 8192 count 2 filesysmirror:d0 c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 10240 / filesysmirror:d10 c1t0d0s1 c1t1d0s1 1024 swap filesysmirror:d50 c1t0d0s5 c1t1d0s5 7120 ...

I am having problem in installing patch 112438-03 in 3 sunfire v240s running Solaris 8. On one server the patch installed with no problem but on the other twos I am getting the following error # patchadd /var/spool/patch/112438-03 Checking installed patches... Verifying sufficient ...

Hi I configured a Solaris 10 jumpstart server. Everything is working without any problems. But there is this one question which I don't know how to automate: This system is configured with NFS version 4, which uses a domain name that is automatically derived from the system's name services. ...

I am trying to jumpstart a SunFire V240 server. When I initiate the boot net - install I am prompted for which language to install. The install is reading the sysidcfg but still prompts me for what language to install. The filesystems are shared out properly. Here is my sysidcfg file # more ...

I have setup a boot server on a subnet with Soll 8 and Sol 9. The aim is to install using JumpStart like we have successfully done on many other servers on different subnets. The server I am trying to do a "boot net" from is an E3500 with the latest OBP. I have powered cycled this ...

Hi, i have a stripe file system : d0: Concat/Stripe Size: 286047360 blocks (136 GB) Stripe 0: (interlace: 32 blocks) DeviceStart Block DbaseReloc c1t4d0s0 0NoYes c1t5d0s010176NoYes it's 134 gb file system, i need copy 100gb then i executed: #cp -r /prom1 /prom .. but when i copy 82 gb ...

Followed blue print/course pages how to setup a jumpstart server. The boot server (jumpstart server) has Solaris 10 with an Solaris 9 jumpstart depot. The jumpstart client fails due to "Retrying.....check tftp server and network setup". works ok to tftp localhost or remote host from ...

Hi , I am trying to install client using jumpstart.It goes smoothly and client does get IP address from server , I have run rarp and bootparams in debug mode and client request are coming to server. Once it configiures last interface it just hangs , what could be the reason , please help ...

Hi I created a bootable jumpstart DVD for x86, and erverything works up to the extract of the flash archive. During the extract, I receive this error: Extracted 2046.00 MB ( 92% of 2208.35 MB archive) Extracted 2047.00 MB ( 92% of 2208.35 MB archive) ERROR: Unexpected EOF error while ...