I was install the solaris 10 01/06 on IBM x336 which has on-board dual giga ethernet port.When the machine is booting up, two NIC is recognized and ip was assigned to nic correctly.But secondary ethernet port is not link up.When i was connect the cable to first ethernet cable, "Link ...

Hi,Can anybody give the command for the display resolution configuration from command prompt in solaris 10.Regards,rsvk

Hello:I basically did a default install of the January release/build of Solaris 10 and now have the following partition table (I couldn't modify the default settings during install):Info from prtvtoc:-bash-3.00# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0* /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 partition map** Dimensions:*512 ...

Any body have these problems.System:AMD Duron 1200MHZ512Kb Ram40gig IDE HDNetgear FG511 NICI am a Noob with Solaris and Unix in general and dont have any experience with Linux but am open minded and enjoy getting my teeth into new stuff. I have found Solaris to be a great challenge and Unix ...

i have pc wiht intel motherboard with onboard graphics and sound card of the model D945GNT. when i went to intel website i found driver updates mainly for windows and some for redhat linux. can i load soalris 10on this board without extra pci cards/ does soalris suppor intel HD audio and intel ...

Hi,I offered to install Solaris 10 x86 on a friends desktop so they could do a Sun JES trail.The system they gave me is a Dell Dimension 3000 which is a P4 3 GHz with 1 GB of memory - should be fine for their trial. However, OS doesn't seem to recognise the network adapter. I *think*the NIC is ...

I have just completed the initial install of Solaris 9 x86 on an IBM Thinkpad 600 x laptop. I also just installed the latest Solaris 9 x86 Recommended patch cluster downloaded from Sun Solve.My intention is to configure the Solaris 9 x86 laptop to be a jumpstart server for sparc clients.The ...

Solaris x86 on U20 preinstalled using type 6 usb country-kitfirst startafter automatic sys-unconfigwhile selecting iso8859-1 germankeyboard/keystrokes are fine in console-modekeyboard is bad when using x-server (every key is right shifted for 1 key e.g. "g" comes if you press ...

I am trying to install solaris 10 version 5.10 on a Toshiba Satellite M70-151 that has the following configuration :Hard Disk- Toshiba MK1032 GSXA 100GB - Various partitions, with a suse 10, windows xp and Toshiba's DVD player partition and an empty space, even the already mentioned ...

Hi, I have installed SOLARIS on SUN Fire Server. I have some problems with electric current and when I have a cut off I must initiate SUN manually. I have modified the variables:auto-boot?=trueboot-command=bootbut without results. Somebody knows as I can make this?Thanks a lot ...

Hi, I am attempting to get a RAID1 mirrored array working on a X2100. The current machine has a stock standard install of solaris 10 1/06 (replacing the pre-installed OS).I want to reconfig the machine to utilise a RAID1 config via the onboard BIOS raid solution. I can succesfully configure ...

Is it same as the Sun box. Where can I find a installation guide? Thanks.

Hi, I am going through some trouble putting the dvd together. I keep trying to use the suggested copy /b file1 + file2 + file3 + file4 + file5 file.iso syntax, but Windows tells me that the syntax is incorrect. Can someone please show me how they did it. I am Running Win XP w/ a Pentium 4 2.8 ...

Installed Solaris 10.0 x86 on an external maxtor 300 gigs drive connected by means of ieee1394. Prior to installation I change the boot order in BIOS to boot from the Maxtor first. Installation to the Maxtor drive was successful. Later Solaris boot loader successfully loaded itself from the ...

Hi I try to install Solaris 3/05 into my new Maxtor 160 GB hard drive. It is reserved 60G for window XP and 100G for Solaris 10. The installation is smooth. After I eject Solaris 10 disk from DVD Rom and reboot. The solaris boot up menu appears, then I select the Solaris section. The message ...

Is there any way that international keyboard layouts can be specified for the javaRconsol application shipped with the Galaxy servers ? When using a Swedish 105 key PC keyboard from a swedish installation of Windows XP with the javastart version of JavaRconsole I am missing many special keys ...

Hi.I have been trying to install Solaris 10 1/06 on a HP ML370 Server, which is supposed to be a Supported Platform according to HCL.I have been problems about the detection of hardisks. This machine has a Compaq Smart Array 532.I tried the setup of deactivate the ACPI on Bios, but this ...

hi there.Trying again to install Solaris 10 01/06 on a HP ML 370 server, I followed the tip suggested in the HCL about disabling ACPI with the DCA diskette from the CD 2 of Solaris 9 x86.What I did was to delete the whole devices reported as ACPI. Then, when I was asked to choose the device ...

Hi there.Trying to install Solaris 10 01/06 on a HP ML 370 Server, when I use the options acpi-user-options=0x2 passed to Grub, installation fails with a message telling that can not configure network interfaces.I have tried this, with the whole network interfaces disabled, but the error still ...

error messageinit: smb(5) repository server not runningHello guys,I'm new to Sun OS and would very much appreciate if someone could identify what is the issue here and its possible solution Background: I was booting up SunOS 10 on my vmware to carry out some tests and suddenly the electicity ...

I don't want to sound uneducated...I am, for my age, a genius with computers. So far, the only "popular" OS I'm not familiar with is Sun Solaris, and the only (I mean ONLY) hardware I'm not familiar with is server hardware such as Sun-branded machines.I have the following ...

Hi guys i'm trying to install solaris x86 on this notebook...i had insert the dvd and boot it...after appear the grub menu i've selected the voice "solaris"it show:booting 'solaris'kernel /boot/multiboot..... etc etc...and after show:sun os relase 5.10 version generic_118844-26 ...

Hello.I am running Solaris/Sparc. On Sparc the "LBA48" hard disk addressing mode is not supported. Therefore the hard disk size is limited to 137 GB for IDE/ATA hard disks.For SATA, SCSI, FCAL, USB, FireWire and other harddisks the 137 GB limit does not exist.I am planning to install ...

Hello.Solaris 10 can be downloaded from Sun's website.However I have read that you have to pay for Solaris if:- You have a multiprocessor system.- You use the OS commercially.Currently I am just planning to install the OS on a private computer (non-commercial use) with a single-core CPU. But I ...

Hello,Tried to install - Solaris does say "No disks".Wanted to use Sun's driver for LSI PERC 4e/Di RAID contoller which is onboard, so I made the diskette according to instructions. The driver is for Solaris 10 3/05 and there seems to be no new one for 1/06 release.Used option 5 in ...

I just installed Solaris 10 on my Toshiba Tecra 9100 laptop. It appears to only use a small portion of the monitor instead of going all the way out to the edge of the monitor. After reading some in here, I attempted to run kdmconfig, however, I get the message:Sorry, current window size (77x23) ...

Hi everyone,i just finished installing solaris 10 x86 on my computer, and the installation process went smoothly. However, when the system tried to reboot, i got some error related to the display of the monitor, which caused no desktop login can be displayed and no access to the console. I had ...

Hi We have a HP Compaq DL380 G3 server. The server is configured for Hardware Raid (RAID 5 and a Spare Disk). This is with a 5i Controller. We have downloaded the Device Update (DU) for 5i Controller and Solaris 10 x86. In Solaris 10 x86 there is an option to install the driver (Option 5- Apply ...

I'm installing Solaris as part of a class project. And no one here has much experience with it. I've run into a few problems:I'm installing on an D865GBF motherboard with integrated video and NIC. After a few thousand hiccoughs, I have gotten the OS installed and booting. However, I have a ...

Is there a how-to or similar documentation showing how to install and run a Linux app under Solaris 10 x86?I am particularly interested in running Linux WordPerfect 8/8.1.I have successfully installed WP8.1/Linux with Free BSD so I have some experience in this sort of grafting. ...

It seems that the right ctrl key is not working in x11 with the italian keyboard.as an example I can hit left ctrl + f in mozilla to find strings, but using right ctrl doesn't work.Thanks.

Following three Apache httpd & httpsd instances are installed on the Solaris 9 x86 based machine:1- /usr/local/apache/bin/httpsd(Apache/1.3.14 Ben-SSL/1.42)2- /opt/apache/bin/httpd(Apache/1.3.28 (Unix))3- /usr/apache/bin/httpd(Apache/1.3.9 (Unix))The instance /usr/apache/bin/httpd is ...

I have installed Solaris 10 u1 x86 with AMD 450 Mhz and NVIDIA Geforce MX but when i am doing login with root( dtlogin) I get two screen saying:"There was an error starting the GNOME Setting Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The ...

Hi AllJust wondering if either a) my disk is bad or b) i'm doing something wrong -- most likely i hope. Anyways, I found an old hard drive that used to be running on a Sparc 2 running 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 .. or at least I think it came from that.. I installed Solaris 10 on a Dell Poweredge server ...

Im am going to install solaris on a system that already has windows (dual boot)I am just getting use to linux OS, before i had knoppix install on my computer and how i has it set up as far as file system goes is... i had 20 gb allocated for the OS with was ext3 file system, and i had 512mb ...

Can anyone be of any assistantWhat i am trying to do is clone a sunfire v210 to a sunblade 1000. The reason why is to have a backup in case the v210 goes down.The v210 has been hardened. On the SunBlade 1000 i have partiioned the same as the sunfire v210Created new file systemsufsrestored all ...

I tried plugging mine in and it doesn't show up in the removable media manager.Is there a trick to this?

Hi,I am working off of a SunOS 5.9 box for work and they set up my account with /bin/ksh (Korn Shell) as the default shell.I am used to using the bash shell, is there an easy way to change Bash to be my default?chsh doesn't seem to be installed on the box.I also tried putting 'exec bash' at ...

Sun Engineer,Hello.I get the "DT messaging system could not be started" error message after input user name and password to login in Solaris 10 experimental (Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 s10_69 December 2004) via CDE. I searched and read plenty of articles on this issue, but most ...

I have Solaris 10 installed and running smoothly.. except I can NOT get my NIC card working. I swear it's harder to configure networking on Solaris than anything i've ever delt with. I have a 3COM 3C450 PCI NIC card, how do I know if Solaris has the drivers for this card installed, how do I ...

I just installed Solaris 10 1/06 GA on a new PC. I ran Update Manager and it applied a bunch of patches. It still shows four patches in my "Available Updates" tab. Three of these it says will be installed at the next restart but they never are. I reboot and they're still in the ...

Hello,I'm trying to install a Maxtor 6B200R0 200G ATA133 drive on a Solaris 10 01/06 x86 box. The drive is correctly recognized by the BIOS, and shows up when I boot Solaris as /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0. I can select the disk with the format utility as well, and have created a single slice with fdisk ...

hi. i suppose mounting fat32 on x86 is well-documented, but i'm having trouble, so i'd appreciate some help.im dual booting with solaris 10 and xp. my partitions are as follows:1st physical drive[boot sector] 55 MB[c:] label XP (NTFS)solaris partitions...2nd physical ...

Hello,I have a question about the subdirectories. I would like to know the maximal limit of subdirectories. I tried with df -o i but it's the general limit shared by a lots of directories. What can I do to khow the limit of subdirectories I can create in my directory ?Thank youAnna ...

bash-2.03$ pwd/export/home/xxxxxbash-2.03$ mkdir varbash-2.03$ cd var/bash-2.03$ mkdir namedbash-2.03$ cd /tmpSAMPLEbash-2.03$ vi DNS_Move_xxxxx.csv"DNS_Move_xxxxx.csv" [New ...

<div align="left">I have an old 200 MHz quad processor system with 1GB memory,24GB drive space,pci, EISA, and dual fast-scsi buses. I thought this would be an ideal system to play around with Solaris 10 in prepartion of my company's plan to move to the OS this summer. Well, when I go to ...

I am loading Solaris 9 x86 on Virtual PC 2004During the install process, I am getting the following message:Warning - Resource Conflict - both devices are addedNON-ACPI device : PNP0F03port 60,64; IRQ : 12 # I think this is my PS/2 mouse ACPI device : PNP0301port 60,64; IRQ : 1 # I think this ...

Hello,Forgive me if this is the wrong forum. I'm a WinXP and Linux user who is new to Solaris.I installed Solaris on vmware recently and it was a relatively painless experience, particularly compared to tha last time I attempted to install on real hardware which was let down by bad hardware ...

Hello, Trying to install solaris 10 on an old Athlon Desktop (40GB HD, 512mb Ram, Athlon is 1150mhz but dont know which 'label' that is).Having selected the default Solaris option on the install menu (booting from CD), module /boot/x86.miniroot loads, a list of files appears on screen that ...

Hi, I've got a Dell GX270, with the DVI video card... Brand new install of Solaris 10, HW1... Everything is fine, machine runs really fast... except one stupid problemThe monitor I've got it connected to is a Apple 20inch widescreen, native resolution is like 1680x1050..I've run kdmconfig ...