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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...