I am running Solaris 9 on a machine I acquired from a different dept and no one there knows what either the firmware or the root passwd is (which is probably why they gave me the machine),I originally thought i could simply reload the O/S but this computer has data that is needed, how do i get ...

I have added a Maxtor DiamondMax 300gb to my Sun Blade 100 (up to date with Solaris 8). The Format utility sees only 508mb. I have read several references to tricks that can be executed to recognize the full disk but have not seen specifics. Can anyone provide the details?I have acquired ...

Is there a definitive guide to the various Solaris 10 x86 releases? I've searched and read a lot but I'm getting more confused. Is there a difference between Solaris AMD and Solaris x86? If a product will run on x86 will it run on x64?Thanks for any links to documentation or similar.Message ...

We are discussing the following scenario:2 Node Sun Cluster 3.1 each 24 GB MemoryNode A rg1, Oracle Instance 1: 15 GB SGANode B rg2, Oracle Instance 2:2 GB SGA rg3, Oracle Instance 3:2 GB SGA rg4, Oracle Instance 4: 10 GB SGASo we have not enough memory on the nodes to run all resource groups ...

Hi All,Do enybody know how to generate localized chars (for example Japanese) using code points in Solaris 10?Like in the following web page: http://www.isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.phtmlUnicode, shift-jisU+4e2f 87a3 丯U+4e3b 8ee5 主U+4e3c 98a5 丼U+4f5c 8dec ...

Hello, I have a type resource gds and want that the cluster it does not qualify the monitoring in definitive modality. Enough to startare the resource with -M? Or I must modify of the parameters?

Is there any possibility to automate the boot process. I mean: during the boot process the system wait to replay to the question "Enter the root password for maintenance or press ctrl-d". Can I put somewhere a time-out so that, after this time-out expire, the system boot in multi-user just like ...

Hi Can anyone help me please. I am trying to jumpstart a new box. I keep getting the error message NFS initial call to (IP address_ failed : no such file or directory. I have checked and as far as I am aware all the directories required are in place.I am a novice at this so please let me know ...

I have added a service to SMF under /var/svc/manifest/application and am successful in starting it, but state always shows offline. How can I get it to show up as "online"?Output of svcs -l command:bash-3.00# svcs -l esmfmri ...

When I did a fresh installation of Solaris 10, I have screen colour distortion during the installation.I could just make out what the words were to get through the whole installation. However, post installation the graphics where normal again.What I see during installation is this blue ...

HelloFew days ago I have installed Solaris 10 11/06 on my VMWare Server, then I applied vmware tools. The system was fine. After this I decided to install all patches using Updatemanager. There were about 100 of them. The Updatemanager has downloaded everything and installed most of them. Since ...

HiYep the title says it all. That is what I am after, some good education that has plain english explanation and easy step by step guide to help understand and use solaris 10.Yes I have googled for help. Most of the results are for learning: "How to use Solaris" post set up.However, I can't ...

Hi Guys:I'll like to share something that happened to me yesterday. I has doing a fssnap of the root file system but I had to cancel the script because of an error I got setting variables. After doing CTRL-C the root file system seemed locked, I couldn't write anything to it. I had to restart ...

dear friends.im new in solaris, i just installed solaris express develper edition 3 days ago.i use Ubuntu before.solars EXDE seems nice and perfect for java development. but how about networking... ?i have Asus K8NE Deluxe main board and onboard lan card. and a D-Link external (serial) Modem. ...

I'm a mechanical engineer student and I'd like to set up a workstation with Solaris 10 and Pro/Engineer 3D CAD. But, for practical reasons, I can't discard Windows Vista x64 that I already have on my machine. The thing is, I don't know much about setting up dual boot with Vista and Solaris ...

Hello.I installed on my solaris 10 X86 a wifi card (ASUS WL-310), plumbed it, and configured an ad-hoc wifi network on a windows Xp machine.When I make a wificonfig -i ral0 scan on my solaris, the ad-hoc network is detected,but I can't connect to it.... why?Thank ...

Hi all,I'm totally new to Solaris 10 on x86. I'm writing, because I hear no sound. My mainboard K7S5A PRO has an onboard soundchip called "CMI9738". It seems as if the Solaris-installer has chosen the right driver "SUNWaudd". But when I play internet radio or just an inserted audio CD, I ...

Hi.This is the situationI have 2 NICs in a solaris box and a windows client1 NIC connect to the modem (internet/DHCP) and the other connect to the windows client.I want the windows client share the internet from the solaris PC. How can I do_ThanksPD. Sorry for my poor ...

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hello dear,I have solaris 10 software DVD but it does't include companion cd, because of this I am not able to get desktop environment.I want to know from where on sun site I may able to download solaris 10 companion cd

Hello all, I need to detect when a user has logged in/out into solaris 10, once the user has logged/unlogged I need to execute a MYSQL command, I was thinking on the /etc/.login file to execute a bash command that calls to mysql, but I just can not find how to execute something on the ...

What are the advantages (Or disadvantages ) to configure Zones in the Cluster 3.2 as faileover or Multiple-Masters.If it is multiple-Masters Oracle Binaries should be installed in local storage?Thanks

Folks'es,I managed to install the Solaris Express DE 2/07 on my system and everything works just fine. Except for one major thing, and that is the keyboard mapping/recoginition.I have a German keyboard and all my locale settings are set to de_DE.ISO8859-1 but the keyboard still behaves like a ...

Hi,We are running an HP R3000 XR UPS, connected directly to our server. I was wondering if there was any software available for Solaris 9 that we could use to manage this UPS. I would like it to perform simple tasks such as automatic shutdown and notification of a power failure. I have looked ...

First let me say I'm just a simple data center tech please use small words and short sentences...I am doing a jumpstart on a V480. Should not be a big deal, on my end I just have to get a MAC address and fill in a few blanks on a web page. The issue is I can't get this server to an OK so I ...

I am having a problem to bring in a EMC clariion disk to the zpool of my V245 server. I can newfs the powerpath device and create files, I just couldn't create a zpool using that. any idea? Btw, the disk is only 64GB, it shouldn't hit the zfs limitation.# zpool create emc emcpower0ainternal ...

Hi all.I have used Solaris 8 for quite some time, and when using a machine with redundant power supplies, the failure of one would be immediately logged to to /var/adm/messages.I have realized that now that when using Solaris 10, the power supply failures are no longed logged to the ...

Hi:Im trying to figure out the correct commands to adjust the NetIfListproperties, first at the ResourceGroup level, and then at theLogicalHost Resource level. Here is what I have, and the errorI am getting....root@cthsap22_mgnt # clresource show -v ctmq-LH1Resource:ctmq-LH1 ...

Hi All,I am going to set up iSCSI virtualization on two SPARC machines.I have read that there is need the following requirements:* iSCSI Target Machine (server side) HW: Sparc or Opteron OS: Solaris 11 or higher * iSCSI Initiator Machine (client side) HW: Sparc or Opteron OS: Solaris 10 or ...

I have a Transtec Senyo Machine on which I installed Solaris 10 6/06. It does not recognize the Network.It has a NVIDIA?Quadro?NVS 210 chip set with NVIDIA?nForce?430B NIC. The nge module gets not loaded, upon boot, and I have of course nod /dev/ngeAny idea on how to track this ...

Hi. i have already dual-booted XP and Solaris together and it worked but i heard Solaris GRUB wont recognize Linux automatically. I temporarily replaced Solaris with Kubuntu Fiesty to see if i liked it, and i did, and the dual boot still worked. Now i just need to know how to get all three on ...

I using Solaris 10 Express.. Here i trying yo connect USB Modem.. But Solaris is not taking any of this.. Please tell me that solution for .. connect USB Modem into solaris system...Sreedharsree5002@gmail.com

How can I install HARDWARE RAID 1 (mirroring) in Sun Fire V440. I have set many times HARDWARE RAID on x86 machines but never before on SPARC.How should I set this ? What I think is to install system then execute:raidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0Will this create MIRROR ? Is this correct way or should it ...

I am trying to install some software on a remote machine but have the cd here locally.I NFS mount the cdrom using:share -F nfs -o ro /cdrom/cdrom0Then at the machine where I want to install the software I type:mount -r <remote-system>:/cdrom/cdrom0 /mnt Here I get an error saying that ...

Hello All...I have been trying to install DBI::mysql on a Solaris 10 box.Using MCPAN :-bash-3.00# perl -MCPAN -e shellCPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.65)cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)ReadLine support enabledcpan[1]> install DBD::mysqlRunning install for ...

Hi,I am using2 - T2000's running on Solaris 10 and using Sun Cluster 3.1 to form a Two node cluster.I have a requirement where I need to run a script infinetly and configure few of the cluster resources to depend on this script.I thought if using GDS to add the script as another resource, but ...

Our company is thinking of buying a new sun midrange server.The problem is that our current ERP system only runs on solaris 9.New server are shipped with solaris 10.Is it possible to just install solaris 9 on a new server?

I have just installed the following packages:SUNWsacomSUNWsasnmSUNWdmiSUNWmibiion my server and started the service:/usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx -y -c /etc/snmp/confThe box is now snmp readable from the management station but it shows very little data at all......just this:snmpwalk -c public ...

Good day everybody, I'm a little bit new to Solaris so there are some misunderstanding. I have 2 NIC's eri0 and eri1, eri0 is in 192.168.0.0 subnet, and eri1 is in 192.168.1.0 subnet, eri0 has static ip, and eri1 is getting it from DHCP. Eri1 is behind soho router that just surve to ...

Hi.I have a sunfire v245, i commented one line in the /etc/hosts about name of server an ip. I restared the server 2 times and every thing was ok. but when i restarte the server, it磜as go on. I' tried to access by ser mgt, i only saw the logs about the systems, but i can't get a console. ...

Hello all,I am a newbie to Solaris, I have the need to open port #36678 on a server running Solaris 8. I am sure it is simple but just do not know where to start, I have ran a netstat -a and it is not listening now.Thank you in advance.

Hello,I have installed CSKamp to run joomla which requires zlib.Does a default CSKamp install provide the php-zlib extensions? on the configure command given by phpinfo I can see a --with-zlib=shared,/usr but no further zlib info.I am running a basic networking sol10 headless installation. I ...

Hello,I have installed CSKamp to run joomla which requires zlib.Does a default CSKamp install provide the php-zlib extensions?on the configure command given by phpinfo I can see a --with-zlib=shared,/usr but no further zlib info.I am running a basic networking sol10 headless installation. I ...

Hi,I have a pc with cdrom and a netra T1 without cdrom.Wondering if I can use solaris x86 pc to jumpstart netra T1(sparc). I heard linux can jumpstart solaris sparc.thanksjustin

Hi I am new to Solaris Kernel developmentI wanted to know when the xxattach() routine is called.... also, I create a soft-state structure (say mySoftState) and pass it to ddi_soft_state_init() routine inside the _init() routine. Now, the first argument of xxattach is dev_info_t which is a ...

I have a fairly stock install of Solaris 10 6/06 on a T2000 which uses a Emulex HBA to boot from Xiotech SAN attached disks. I installed the following patches:118712 14 < 16 R-- 24 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Patch120050 05 < 06 RS- 28 SunOS 5.10: usermod patch120222 16 ...

I have successfully installed Solaris 10 on both the x86 and Sparc platform. Now I am trying to install Vim, Python and Solaris Studio...this is not working well. I am on the x86 platform and cannot get "make" to work. I am able to unzip and untar, but make just won't work. I have scoured the ...

Any one got a problem with solaris 10 x86 when create DHCP. I followed the instruction from solaris 10 tutorial. Insert DVD and in terminal mkdir /export/install.cd /cdromo/solaris10/tools etc..../setup_install_server/instal_serversometime command above error, it's not like I am working with ...

Hi all, I'm new to Solaris, What is the equivilent to COM7 for example in Solaris?My problem is this code:CService srv = new CService("COM7", 57600, "Samsung", "");This works in Windows Vista, but when I try it in Solaris 10 x86 it says no such port.I'm running Solaris in VMware's ...

Hi, I just finished installing Solaris 10 (11/06) onto my computer. The whole installation installed without errors. Afterwards, I went to the log files and saw that everything seems to have installed OK.After rebooting, I logged in with the CDE environment. Everything appears normal.I editted ...