few newbie questions
hi there.
i just installed the OS (11/06) on x86 box and have a few questions.
1. after the install has ended and i logged in, how do i check if all my hardware was detected properly? i tried menus in 'launch' but didn't find anything.
2. any guidance on how to mirror a drive? i have 3 pairs of scsi drives and want to build 3 mirrored sets. what is the best way to do that? i've seen a flash clip on creating a sets under ZFS but am not sure i've got one. the default fs during setup was chosen NFS 4.
3. i have an NTFS drive (ex-win2k3) in this box. can i somehow see its content? can i share this drive so that other windows machines could access it?
thank you and sorry for probably beating the dead horse..
Alex S.
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Alex_Sa] at [2007-11-27 10:36:35]
# 1
1. Use SMC (Solaris Management Console), there is a limited but useful information about your system.
2. Best way is to configure RAID on your controller (You should to do that before installation).
3. Sharing between Unix and Windows in Samba.
# 2
ok - let's try this again -
#1 -
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag -v
#2 - since I don't see that you have a RAID controller, you can opt for zfs, but understand (at least to the best of my knowledge) you can't use zfs at present for root drives, so if you're trying to use mirroring for your rootfilesystem, you should look into Solaris Volume Manager -it is free
#3 - Samba is NOT going to help you mount and inspect the contents of an NTFS formatted partition under solaris. Do a google search for mount_ntfs, it's a lofs type mount command, that allows you to mount an NTFS formatted partition under solaris. Download, compile, and execute and you'll be able to mount that drive up and "see" it on your machine. - now, if you want to SHARE it out, Samba is definitely the way to go, and if you're using Solaris 10, it's probably installed in /etc/samba, but you'll also want to look on samba.org to get some more info / faqs on setup - jeff
# 3
thanks for the reply.
re: raid
my card is a standard 'hostraid' card, not the raid controller, so i can only try to do the software raid with it under solaris. it worked with win2000 this way so i guess it might well be with solaris or am i wrong here?
thanks
# 4
hi Jeff and thanks for your help.
i was probably not clear when i asked about the raid so here's what i want to achieve with my SCIS controller (Adaptec 29320-R SCSI HostRaid adapter):
1. mirror boot drive
2. mirror drive(s) of future mail and fax server databases
3. have existing NTFS drive appear under Solaris 10 and be able to share its content with Win2000 machines. NTFS is definitely not a must for me here as if WIn2000 machine can read/write data from any other fully supported Unix file system, it is absolutely okay with me.
many thanks
Alex
# 5
for mirroring the boot drive and more, go with Solaris Volume Manager - check on sun.com/downloads if you don't already have the software
check out the features of the other programs I talked about (mount_ntfs and samba) and you may be able to use them in the 3rd scenario - jeff
