I am having huge problems of finding a SATA controller card that:1. Can attach 4 discs2. No raid (i will use ZFS)3. supports NCQ4. supports SATA II (i.e. 3Gbps)If anyone know of a card that works, please post the model here, so I can buy it. Ive looked everywhere, but it seems that the SATA ...

Hi alli would like to know if could be possible (adding a new disk) to mirror my first disk with existing data ( / and /pippo filesystem ) with Solstice Disk Suite.If i concat my partition ( for example metainit f d1 1 1 c1t0d0s0 ) will I lost existing data?thank ...

Hi,Is it allowed here to put job offer?Regards,Daniel

I'm new to solaris. I have a few solaris boxes, and need to know all the software packages & version information that is running on each. I've ran pkginfo -l. It gives me a majority of the information that I need. But I know there are other applications running on the system. How can I ...

Hi,I have this problem trying to unzip the solaris 10 patches. The file is called 10_Recommended.zip. If I use the following command i get this:#file 10_Recommended.zip10_Recommended.zip:English textand when I unzip the file i get this error message:#unzip 10_Recommended.zipfile #2084: bad ...

Hi I'm having some issues trying to install Solaris 10 on an Ultra 10 workstation.The same cd works fine in an Ultra 450 enterprise server.I get a lot of repeating errors like:Unexpected token ' ' on line 1 of /kernel/drv/rpcib.confI tried doing a 'boot cdrom - text' from the ok prompt, ...

Hello,I am currently using Solaris 10 x86 edition on a pc that has an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro video card. The problem I am experiencing with the system is that the refresh rate seems to be stuck at 60 hz. I would like to increase the rate to something that is easier on the eyes, around 85 hz (my ...

Hello,I am trying to figure out how to add a persistent route to the routing table on one of my Solaris servers.On my Windows boxes I can set a persistent route to 10.10.1.25 via 10.10.1.1 by using the following command at the command line:route add 10.10..x. mask 255.255.0.0 10.10.1.1 -pIs ...

I need to install Solaris 10 on an Windows XP Pro system running HPFS. I cannot find instructions (on the Sun website) about whether the Solaris 10 installer will recognize that XP is already installed, and whether it sets up dual boot automaticaly.Can anyone tell me how to approach this, and ...

Dear Sirs and Madams :-)I've finally gotten a great install of Solaris 10 on an old AMD machine. All is well except for the fact that the Companion CD doesn't install properly. I've added to the PATH variable to access the terminal apps but is there a way to install that the graphical ...

I have a clean HD and want to put Solaris 10 on it. I downloaded and burned the install onto 5 CD-r. When I boot the system, it doesn't boot to the CD rom. I have changed the boot sequence in the bios. What else do I need to do to start the install?

SunCluster 3.1I set the property of a resource asstart_timeout--60retry_count--5retry_interval--300the wanted behavior is start the resource and every time waiting for it 60 seconds, if failed retry, the total failover time is 300 secondsbut the current behavior is:retry twice then fail over, ...

Dear Gurus I want to Install Oracle 10 G with QFS filesystem in first phase , and later i want to install Sun Cluster Is this possible ? Regards

Am i allowed to install sun studio 12 on windows platformIf so will u please give me instructions to intall it

Hi, I just installed Solaris Express Developer Edition 2/07 , but i can not connect to the internet. I don't know how to configure thid acces

Hi,How the enter French or German chars?I have installed French language packages. Kind regards,Daniel

Hello,How can i activate IPv6 in Solaris Express Developer Edition?

Dear sir/madam,I downloaded solaris 10 Os from sun website the downloaded data is in zipped mode. I unzipped the data & i burnt in RW-Cd as image as data, Os is not loading from the cd.I done the procedure in diffrent cd & different mode still the same problem.Im already send the same ...

Hi all!I got an enterprise 450 and i want to install OpenSolaris 10. How can i edit its bios settings to boot it from the CD-Rom? Thanks

Hi all,i have an issue with customizing the Workspace menu (i.e. right click on desktop and the resulting menu) on Solaris 9 that i have trawled the web for and come up empty.I have added some applications to the Menu using the Customize Menu Option but when i right click, and select one of ...

HiAs I want to know that is there any firewall available inbuilt with Solaris 10 like IPTABLES in Linux. Also as I have heared about Sun Screen Firewall was available upto Sun Solaris 8. Why it was stopped after Solaris 9 & 10.Can you give me more details on ...

When i have tried install Solaris 10 on my laptop HP dv 6000 i have received this message "no disks found. chceck to make sure are cabled and powered up." what can i do? Maybe i should mount the disc? But i dont know how, i tried but i had a problem witch this, it is different than mount disk ...

I setup my mirror, sub-mirror, and meta database to enable SVM to use raid1. When I change my vfstab to the meta locations I am able to boot, but are unable to write on the disk. Does anyone know why this might be happening that may cause my root disk to act like this? Thanks in advance!

Hello there ! i am trying to jumpstart a v240 machine from a jumpstart server, which contains the media dump (of solaris 10 sparc)from a CD . But initially the jumpstart is started the pacakges are installed properly and the patches are also installed properly (10 recommended patches) . After ...

Hello. I had a Sun Technician install an XVR-100 card into each of my 4x490s. I am trying to boot my Solaris boxes to display on a KVM switch, though I get NO display? Any suggestions?To do anything, I need to at least get a promptRegardsJeff W

Hello,we have installed 5.10 on a i86pc. After doing updates with the updatemanager smc is not starting anymore. I got an font warning "Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font" and a following java error from this. I get this with both x-interfaces common and java-desktop.I have checked jdk ...

Hi,Do you know how to change keyboard layout to French?System configuration:Solaris 10 (SPARC) installed on SunFire v245French languages packages installedConnection to server by a Remote Desktop from WinXPThe output from the kbd command is as follow:bash-3.00# kbd -tUSB keyboardbash-3.00# kbd ...

Dear all,I am trying to install solaris 10 in sun blade 1000 and getting a problem that disk doesn't exist ......... After several tentatives, I understood that I need to format a harddrive as it is new. I formeted it with boot cdrom -s and the problem still persists.I bought a 73g HDD and the ...

Dear Solaris folksI have a Dell Dimension E521 computer and have been trying to connect to the Internet on Solaris but to no avail.The following is what I did:1. Edit the /etc/driver_aliases with bge "pci14e4,170c".2. Run the command modload /kernel/drv/bge3. Run the command ifconfig bge ...

Hi,I tried to install Solaris 10 on an V65, it is my first installation on x86. All other installations I did on sparc servers. OK fixed IP Adress is used, also subnet and defaultrouter is defined. When first CD is done and machine reboots the intel boot agent tries to find a dhcp server. Why? ...

I did some research and it appears that the latest edition or Solaris Express will install and work on the Acer Aspire 9100. It is a turion with a nvidia chipset, atheros wireless and an nvidia 6100 graphics chip set. Does anyone have experience with this install.

Hello All,I just installed Solaris Express, Developer Edition. And the only User Id is root. I am not sure that I want to practice and work in the root id. I am not sure, but to me it seems a bit risky.However, I do not know how to create a new user id and password. Is there an easy way to do ...

Hi,Can anyone help me in resolving the below problem?I have downloaded the DVD version of solaris 10 into my windows system, but not sure on how to make the downloaded image as bootable one. I did exeucted the "sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-full" file which I downloaded, it went on and created one more ...

Hello,I'm experiencing something really strange when editing crontab, when I type:crontab -eI get a number and everytime I hit enter a question mark ?For example:bash-3.00$ crontab -e292???The crontab file was not changed.Any ideas why is ...

I am unable to get the downloaded Solaris 10 DVD's to burn using winISO on Windows XP.This may seem like a silly question, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to do so?

Hi Everyone,I am very new to Solaris world. I have an Ultra 20M running Solaris 10 (x86), and a Linksys 350N router connected to a cable modem. But I am not able to go online. Please can you help me with the commands or steps I need to take for configuring the Solaris for accessing the Internet ...

Hi all-I ran into this issue yesterday and the inode could be a trigger to system restart (see below). The challenge is this error message is like a false alert. It should not trigger the system to restart. What would be the fix to prevent the next system crash & reboot?I also attach pca ...

Dear fellowsWe just migrated to Sun Solaris 10 11/06 and installed sucessfully. When we run Sun Solaris after entering login/ user name it do not accept password. While the password is correct. Please help usFarooq

i am able to do the installltion of my own ?by watching the videos of it freom u r web site but at last when the files copying in my sysytem at lastits downlad till 20 % and restart my computer autmaticlly cna any one suggest me the problemor solaris dvd is not copied up to the mark ...

Would anyone show me how to configure my cable modem connect to NIC, but it can't connect to internet. I take the cat5(connect from modem) plug back to windows xp system at NIC it's working fine.have done so far:#ifconfig -a plumb#ifconfig -a auto-dhcperror:ifconfig: lo0: interface does not ...

Hi,I am running S10U3 (all patches applied). Today by mistake I extracted a big (4.5G) tar archive into my home directory (on ZFS) which ran out of space and the tar command terminated with the error "Disk quota exceeded" (it should have been something like "No space left on device" ?)I think ...

I installed Solaris 10 on a Dell Dimension 3000 with two hard drives. I put Solaris on HDB2 (second partition on second hard drive).The partition was previously occupied by NetBSD.The other operating systems are:Windows XP on HDA2Slackware Linux on HDB1 Debian Linux on HDB3I use Grub to boot ...

For versions previous to 10, Sun would release a collection of patches in the form of a Maintenance Update to bring the system up to the same feature point of a particular CD release.I recall reading somewhere that this isn't going to happen for Solaris 10 at all.Does anyone know what the ...

Hi Techies,I am facing a problem configuring crossbow on sun4v Sun Fire T2000 server.I have downloaded nightly-bins-20070501.sparc.tar and bfu.sh from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/pre-beta/and followed the installation procedure...# cd /tmp/crossbow# /usr/bin/bunzip2 ...

Can anyone give me ideas on what software to use to back up Solaris 10 Servers ( V240, 490, & 890). We researched Veritas and they want $15,000. Is there any software with some of the same features as Netbackup?Thanks in Advance!!!

What anti-virus if any do you guys have installed on your Solaris machines and how much did you have to pay?

ive seen 4 downloads slots in the x86_64 genre but the main os downloads are less than 600mb? or should i get the bonus software? makes no sense to me?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I don't see a g77 executable in /usr/sfw/bin, is there an official package for it, like there is a SUNWgcc with the gcc and g++ compilers?

We need to calucalate the size of a directory. Right now we are doing stat() on the individual files in the directory, and adding up their sizes to get te size of the directory. Is there a more efficient way to do this?Appraciate your thoughts and ideas.Venu

I just installed the new Solaris Express Developer's (snv_64a), or basically I did a live upgrade from snv_55b, and I'm still seeing Sun Studio 11, and not Sun Studio 12. Has anyone seen this? Sun Studio 12 is supposed to be in snv_64a, correct?Thanks,David