I'm trying to add the recommended patches on a 2.8 machine (sparc ultra10)uname -a reveals Generic_108528-24Booted in sungle user mode.I'm using the file 8_Recomended. the enitre install displays return code 8's in 90+% of the situations and once in a while a return 25.patchadd -p says that ...

Hi All Expert,Need some advice here. I have a E3500 machine recently and need to re-setup the OS as the OS has been removed from the machine. I have a null modem cable plug into the serial port A and connect to my IBM laptop. I have tried both hyperterminal and TeraTerm. When i power up the ...

HelloI am trying to install Sol 9 (x86) onto an IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20. I am using CD media but I run into a problem. When it comes to the point where you choose which device to use for the install, the CD drive does not appear, only the two disk drives. When I goto add the CD-ROM device, ...

I have downloaded and installed solaris 10 but although the install all appeared to go well i am unable to get started.As the pc boots up i am asked for a login and password--I was not asked to set a login and when asked to set a password i chose the option to leave this blank.Any ideas?thanks ...

Recently upgraded an Ultra 10 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 10.Problem:We use an application that is no longer supported by the manufacturer. The application ran on the Ultra when it had Solaris 2.6. It required a specific host ID because it was originally licensed on a much older system. We ...

The system is requesting it during install - yet I cant seem to locate this on Sun's sitecan anyone assist?Please insert the CD/DVD for Solaris 9 Software Supplement CD.After you insert the disc, please press Enter.Enter S to skip this disc and go on to the next one.To select a different ...

Hi: I restored "/ "from legato backup tape to disk c9t2d0,and added bootable blocks with the command: /usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c9t2d0s0But it is not bootable, the error message is: can't open kernel/unix.what does it mean?Thanks ...

Can anyone tell me how to set path permanently....I had configured sendmail..and now the path /usr/lib remains only till I log off...I am entering the following commands, as a root user.#PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin::/usr/lib#export PATHI tried entering this file in /etc/profileWHERE CAN WE LOCATE THE ...

hi everyone,i am new to unix and solaris but i am very computer savy and can follow instructions well and i do some programming. I have downloaded solaris 10 for CD but don't know how to install it or what's the next step. I appreciate any help or advice..Thanks for reading this..mustafa ...

I've been attempting to install Patch Pro 2.0 for a Solaris 9 install. I can't seem to find the needed install file to download. I've followed the instructions that I've found on Sun's document "Signed Patches Administration Guide for PatchPro 2.2". The document says to download ...

HiI am facing aproblem that GUI in the E220R on which Solaris 6 5/98. I able to login using command line but when I give user name & paaswd in the GUI it doesn't allow me to login & it again comes back to GUI login With BIG HoPeSMin2

I recently downloaded solaris 10. I downloaded it directly to my CD burner to which I then burned it. I then changed my boot priority on my computer to CD then Harddrive. Here's the problem:Nothing happens.Did I need to uncompress it before hand? I didn't think it would fit on a CD ...

Has anyone had problems installing Solaris 10 on an IBM Thinkpad T23. I tried installing it a few days back and it failed just past selecting the installation method (Interactive) with a kernel panic over problems with loading module for sockfs and something about problems finding symbols for ...

Hello allJust a quick one,Does anybody know if the x86 platform is included in Solaris 10 Media kit which is sold on the sun website?I cannot find any info to say x86 is included or is that it is just for sparc systems.Any info would be appreciated...

The Toshiba Portege M200 laptop is reported to work with Solaris 10. However, this model laptop does not have a built-in CD-ROM, so we're using a USB CD-RW/DVD combo drive supplied by Toshiba to run the installation. This configuration does boot from the first Solaris CD, and begins to run the ...

hi , im trying to install os 10 on x86 platform , i get the fallwing error msg when trying to boot from dvd ,Not Enough Memorypboot: CDROM read errorburned few dvds but get the same msg ,please hlep .udi

Hi , I wanted to start Veritas cluster services , such as LLT,VXFEN at the startup of the machine.While installing VCS /etc/init.d startup files are created and mapped to Run level 3 .But this service doesnt start automatically.I belive there is some new concept of starting services on solaris ...

Hi All,What is the command to find out what make or brand of disks is being used in solaris box.Thanks Regards,Prakash

Can anyone guide me how to install TOP command in solaris 10, 64bit OS?thanks

I want to upgrade a Sol. 8 sytem to Sol. 10 but acomplish 2 objectives in the process: 1.) Reduce the system disk mounts pts (/var,/opt) to just / 2.) Attempt to do a UPGRADE install so as to not have to restore all my custom apps.I tried a quick UPGRADE install and it failed during the testing ...

Hello!I wanted to install Solaris 10 on Samsung HDD connected to SATA PCI controller. The controller is based on Sil 3112A chipset. If it helps it has a RAID function built in, however I don't use RAID. I boot computer from DVD, I think just after setting the root password, Solaris install ...

When I try to Install Solaris 10 on UltraSparc-IIi-Engine machine trough booting CD installation it get stuck after configuring devices and stay stuckDoes anyone know how to solve itCurrently it installed with Solaris 9Tnx,Judam

Hello my name is Chris Tison. I am a SSG in the US Army. Currently I am working as an instructor at Ft Gordon, GA. One of the classes we instruct the students on is Solaris. I am currently the SME for this class. I have decided to rewrite this course as it is outdated. I want to instruct the ...

I am instaling Solaris 9 on a ULTRA Sparc 10 but the installation does not detect the AH2940UW SCSI controller.Does this controller require a separate driver to be installed or is there another configuration that needs to be done?Thanx.

I'm using Solaris 8 SunFire machine.The machine was damaged during shipment.I have enabled bootmode -u diag to daignose any failed hardware.The machine goes into infinite loop while trying to test the network cards.Tests are failing and repeating themselves over and over again.The machine ...

Hi All,I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Fire v480Everything goes well but when it tries to install software I think a DISPLAY problem occures. Below is the first message: InvocationTargetException thrown in method initProfile in class com.sun.solarisinstall.panels.ProfileServerOtTarget ...

I tried to install Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on my SUN E4500 Server. I verified the media on other Sparc computer and it's OK. But when I type boot cdrom, the light of CDROM will flash and I got these error messages even I cleaned the CDROM:Boot device: /<a href="mailto:sbus&#64;3" ...

I am getting the following error message when I try to install Solaris 10 from cdrom: "Can't open boot device."The system I am trying to install to is a SunFire v100.The boot command I am using is: ok boot cdrom - nowinI have used this cd to successfully install several other v100s ...

I am trying to install on a Sun Sparc Ultra 5 which I have inherited. The machine booted up OK with Solaris 7 with the old user's set up, but I do not have his ids or passwords.When I try to install Solaris 10, early in the boot it comes up with "attempting to configure interface ...

I have downloaded the Solaris driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8001, which is the ethernet adaptor on my A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard.I am tying to install Solaris 10 on a PC with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. I have got the operating system on OK, but I can't get the drivers to work.I ...

is it equal to do a mirror (RAID1) on a sparc or in a x86 ?

Hi All , I have a server which having 100 hard disk drive (connected to array) and all these drives are configured through SDS . Now I want to increase some of the filesystem size . Could some tell me how can I findout on which disk is having unused space / slice . There is no soft partition ...

Hi Guys,I'm trying to set-up a printer on a V240. The printeris a Lexmark T630, attached to a windows-printclusterand being used as a network-printer. I have established that the printer as such works, andthat if I print a text-file usingcat <file>|dos2unix|lp -d printer1 the printout is ...

Hi,While installing Solaris 8 or 10(x86) on my pc i am getting the error:64 PCI bit len unsupported...Root filesystem not mounted.I am using ASUS P5RD1-VM motherboard (ATI x200 chipset) with P4 2.6GHz processor and 512 MB ram.The same board is working fine with Windows XP 64 bit.Can anybody ...

I just upgraded my little Ultra 10 (300Mhz, 256MB, 40GB disk) from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. I basically selected "everything" and after hours of feeding CDs it finished and I just get the console login. I turned on the login server. Reboot. No CDE. I tried runing the session manager ...

Can anyone please provide download location for the "Sun::Solaris::Kstat" module!Thanks,

hi alli have installed debian 3.1 on sun netra t100 server.i want to install graphic driver on this server , but not able to do that.Can u please tell me , weather any onboard graphic card or chip is available on Netra[tm] t1 Model 105 Server, or we have to add pci card on server to ...

What packages must be installed to add Sun Managment Console to a base Solaris 10?I've added SUNWmccom (and the SUNWj3dev package it depends on); but, this does not install the Management Console's binary, /usr/sbin/smc.Thank you.

Hello,We have a workstation model SPARCstation 5. Unfortunately, we need to reinstall the O.S. which is SunOS 5.4, but we do not have the CDs. I would like to know where I can get these CDs. Does anyone can help me?Thanks & Regards

I'm trying to setup svm on a v880. I'm running solaris9 and it's all installed and happy.I'm doing the following to create my state databases:metadb -af -c3 c1t0d0s7 c1t1d0s7slice 7 is unassigned in both cases and 22 mb in size.After doing so I can run metadb -i:metadb -iflagsfirst blkblock ...

Hi,starting at <a href=" http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp" target="_blank"> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp</a> the download of the Solaris 10 1/06 for x86 ISO-Images simply doesn't work.I do get a "file not found" message.I tried to download the ...

After finishing installing Solaris 10 cd 1, i reboot the machine, and it shows a message: BAD PBR sig, what does that mean? Anything i did wrong? How do i fix it? Any help is GREATLY appreciated!Thank you!

Hello all,sorry if I'm posting this on the wrong group, please let me know if there's a better suited group for this.I have a solaris 9 server with 3 disks:the 1st one holds the OS in several slicesthe other 2 make up a mirror drive i created using the management console.I created 3 database ...

Hello,I have an Ultra 5 that came without a cdrom so i bought one on ebay that was said to be working on the same model sun.I have tested the drive on a pc and it works fine.what i have done:ok> reset-allok> probe-scsi-all/<a href="mailto:iommu&#64;0" ...

Sorry for a newbie question!I am already pointing a domain name to web hosting for email account. Now, I need an application server to run ERP software and Oracle, and installing Solaris and Oracle need a domain name. If I point my domain name to the server, how do I receive emails from web ...

Hello,I'm new to solaris so to want to give it a try. I have a secondary har disk inside an external usb box, so I'd like to know if it is possible to install solaris 10 on that hard disk, even if it is inside the usb box. If so, where I can find information? It is simple or very ...

Dear AllKindy ,any body has unix essinsial solaris 10 as pdf file best regardskhalid

hi, i have a system with following configuration:sata 80gbintel 915 glvgp4 2.66on board ethernet controlleron sound controllerwhen i install sol10 on my syetemi receive a error" this usb hostcontroller is not valid. "this type of line prints two time and installer just hang for ...

Hi AllI just changes my /etc/passwd file for root:root:x:0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/tcshThis shell does net exist........The result, I cannot become root anymoreAny suggestions how to change this file or to boot in single user mode. For example, this doesn't work: > su -c `/usr/sbin/init ...

Hi AllI just tried to change my root password. When I change it with passwd I get a segmentation fault, and the passwd is not changed.I'm not sure if this has anything to do with this problem, but I just installed openSSH (and disabled Telnet)Thanks in advanceLucaps I just installed Solaris 8 ...