Compare Linux and Solaris

We have tested the I/O performance on Intel-Solaris 7.0 and Intel-RedHat Linux.
We found that Intel-Linux has much better performance than Intel-Solaris.
Now, we are thinking to install Oracle 8i on Intel-Linux.
However, before we make this decision, we would like to hear more opinions about
the advantages and disadvantages of running Oracle on these two different
operating systems. We'll appreciate, if you can give me your opinions.
Thanks
Thomas
null

This is actually supposed to be a Java forum, so you are way off topic. And you would be better off to consider what software you are going to use first, and then decide what hardware you are going to run it on.

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Function-Based Indexes (FBI) on Linux and Solaris

I have a question about FBI on different systems (Linux and Solaris).
---- Oracle on Linux -----
SQL> CREATE TABLE T_DUMMY(NAME VARCHAR(20));
Table created.
SQL> CREATE INDEX T_DUMMY_IDX ON T_DUMMY(UPPER(NAME));
Index created.
However, when I do the same on the Oracle running on Solaris, I get the following error:
---- Oracle on Solaris -----
SQL> CREATE TABLE T_DUMMY(NAME VARCHAR(20));
Table created.
SQL> CREATE INDEX T_DUMMY_IDX ON T_DUMMY(UPPER(NAME));
CREATE INDEX T_DUMMY_IDX ON T_DUMMY(UPPER(NAME))
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
I know that I have to add "QUERY REWRITE" in order to create a FBI. However, why Oracle on Linux behave differently. Would it be any difference/problem if I do NOT add "QUERY REWRITE" for Oracle on Linux (For example, would the EXPLAIN PLAN different)?

general user settings are the same (privilege, role) Well, the specific settings must be different. I would check to see whether one of the roles has been granted the QUERY REWRITE system privilege on your Linux instance but not on Solaris.
Cheers, APC

Missing data in server monitor under linux and solaris

Some metrics are not displayed in our environments, specifically under the statistics tab, request statistics, active coldfusion thread, we always have a zero line. Also under memory usage, "cf threads by memory usage" is always empty. I have all three buttons at the top checked so they are monitoring. Is there something else I'm doing wrong?
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I'm specifically wanting thread info to check if I should increase the defaults in CFIDE configuration. Most everything on the server is being delivered faster now that we are using a 64bit JVM and have moved to solaris in production (from windows). But there are some sections of our cfm logic that are taking much longer now (2000% longer)
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Hi all,
does anyone can write some info why java Threads are
recorded in the list of process (ps -ef) when you run
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Both implementations in Linux and Solaris perform well.
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Linux and solaris version

Hi all,
What version of linux and solaris support oracle 11g(weblogic) , what is the difference between older versions and higher versions?
Regards
Srinivas kola

Hi Francis,
You can find the certification information here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/fusion-certification-100350.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/downloads/fmw-11gr1certmatrix.xls
Regards Peter

Help systems for Win, Linux, and Solaris

Is there a flavor of RoboHelp that can generate
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Radio button icons differ on Linux and Solaris

I have a GUI made in Java swing with using version 1.4.2
When I compile and run my GUI on linux the appearance is
okay in linux but not on solaris and vice versa.
I have a JPanel for which I have "null" layout I put some
radio buttons with icons. And I use setbounds function to
carry out absolute positioning.After I compile on linux and
see the GUI the radio buttons appear fine but on solaris
it is overlapped and the icons seem to be cut from below.
I am not able to figure out whats the problem. I have tried
taking smaller fonts, having more spacing between radio buttons.
Note that only Radio buttons have this problem rest all the
components are working fine with null layout and absolute
positioning...
I have also tried setHorizontalTextPosition etc...
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I have a GUI made in Java swing with using version 1.4.2
When I compile and run my GUI on linux the appearance is
okay in linux but not on solaris and vice versa.
I have a JPanel for which I have "null" layout I put some
radio buttons with icons. And I use setbounds function to
carry out absolute positioning.After I compile on linux and
see the GUI the radio buttons appear fine but on solaris
it is overlapped and the icons seem to be cut from below.
I am not able to figure out whats the problem. I have tried
taking smaller fonts, having more spacing between radio buttons.
Note that only Radio buttons have this problem rest all the
components are working fine with null layout and absolute
positioning...
I have also tried setHorizontalTextPosition etc...
Please suggest something....
Thanks in advance...
Vips

Linux and Solaris Clients with password policy using LDAP

Anybody managed to get Linux (RHEL) and Solaris 9 Client authenticate against Sun Directory Server 5.2p4 using the same password policy?
For me it looks like Linux needs attribute shadowlastchanged set to display proper Warnings, that the password will expire/needs to be changed now. On the other hand Solaris (using pam_ldap) never writes this attribute, because it's using the password policy attribute pwdchangedtime.
Hints very wellcome!
Can anybody confirm Solaris9 pam_unix still sets this shadow* attributes correct on any password change executed by a user?

Hi Jeremy,
here the answers to your questions:
>My question is which system takes precedence over the password policy?
Unfortunately there is no policy verification between the portal and your Sun One LDAP. So if you reset the password from the portal then only the portal password policies can be checked.
> If I wanted to do password resets from the Portal, does the portal then store only the password in its database?
No, the password will be stored in the LDAP, but only if it also corresponds with the LDAP policies. If not, then you will get an error, but you will not see the real LDAP exception.
> Also what would then happen if you tried to reset the password from the LDAP?
The password in the LDAP does not have to fit to the Portal password policies. When you log in, the portal will only check if the password you tipped in is the new one in LDAP and will not check any policies.
Hope this brings some light in,
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Differences between Linux and Solaris command set

Hi,
It is complicated to learn Solaris? Is the set of commands the same of Linux?
It is because is more simple for me to find a Linux Admin book than a Solaris book.
Thanks.
Lorenzo

BTW: You might want to start with this peace if information:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/linux/linux_overview.pdf
One remark: this Blue/white paper is written for audience known to Solaris and new to Linux, but usefull the other way around.
Specially table 1 is very usefull !
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Detect memory leak in JNI so files for linux and Solaris

I have to find the memory leaks in the JNI for solaris and linux but the issue is
i need to find the leaks in the so files.I have solved the issues of leaks using Purify
on windows but not getting appropriate support for linux. Any pointers to tools will help.I tried Valgrind on linux but it is not giving me the exact location of leak as in purify and also the support for purify is for 32 bit only.Valgrind is not showing any functions in .so files.JNI is not supported in Purify for Solaris? Please Help.

amol28 wrote:
I have to find the memory leaks in the JNI for solaris and linux but the issue is
i need to find the leaks in the so files.I have solved the issues of leaks using Purify
on windows but not getting appropriate support for linux. Any pointers to tools will help.I tried Valgrind on linux but it is not giving me the exact location of leak as in purify and also the support for purify is for 32 bit only.Valgrind is not showing any functions in .so files.JNI is not supported in Purify for Solaris? Please Help.If you have written the JNI, the JNI itself (java calls, methods, etc) to be OS agnostic then it shouldn't matter. In that case you check the windows code (not jni), the linux code (not jni) and the jni code itself independent of each other.
If you haven't made the JNI OS agnostic the question would be why not?

Adobe Reader 8.1.1 for Linux and Solaris released

Linux
* 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
* Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 and Ubuntu 6.10. For a list of customer-reported working systems see here
* GNOME or KDE desktop environment
* 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
* Up to 125 MB of available hard-disk space
* GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher
* Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher
Solaris
* UltraSPARC or UltraSPARC IIIi processor
* Solaris 9 or 10
* GNOME or KDE desktop environment (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
* 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
* Up to 175 MB of available hard-disk space
* Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

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distributions which use recent GTK 2.0 libraries. It is known fact that when
recent GTK 2.0 library was present loading of AR 7.0.9 failed with endless
loop of messages: "expr: syntax error" on console window and serious CPU
usage hit silently slowing down computer reactions. Now this is fixed.
New feature added: Now AR8 scans font pathes inside X config files and adds
found fonts to its own internal font cache so system wide fonts are used for
pdf pages rendering in addition to default built-in AR8 package fonts. If
user will copy font files from Windows/fonts directory to X font locations
the pdf files outlook in AR8 is identical to the one on Windows.
When someone uses tar.bz2 or tar.gz installer it will ask for installation
directory and will show default [ /opt] directory. Do not press enter here!
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provide path to libgtkembedmoz folder. This library is a part of mozilla web
browser so it can be found in any mozilla program directory:
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/seamonkey
/usr/lib/thunderbird
/usr/lib/mozilla
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and fill in libgtkembedmoz Folder path with one of these locations or find
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Compare Linux with Solaris

We have tested the I/O performance on Intel-Solaris 7.0 and Intel-RedHat Linux.
We found that Intel-Linux has much better performance than Intel-Solaris.
Now, we are thinking to install Oracle 8i on Intel-Linux.
However, before we make this decision, we would like to hear more opinions about
the advantages and disadvantages of running Oracle on these two different
operating systems. We'll appreciate, if you can give me your opinions.
Thanks
Thomas
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This from experience of running large-db ecommerce site on intel linux with redhat 6.1, oracle 805 and 8i, with some java functions, intermedia, time-series module, 4 different servers on aolserver 2.33 and aolserver 3.0 on 1 machine: it's stable.
I never had a crash, and no locking or restarting due to either aolserver or oracle.
With a few minor modifications in linux to support some enterprise functions (raw devices, async io) linux on intel with oracle is almost ready to kick sun's ass. (at least on the 1 to 8 cpu server market)

SSI error on iplanet 6.0 for linux and solaris

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I enabled ssi support in magnus and obj according to documentation.
When I hit shtml file I have this error in the logs:
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What webserver version and service pack are you using? I suspect the problem lies with Init settings. Check the Init directives in magnus.conf if its 6.0 and obj.conf if its a 4.1 server. If you still run into issues, can you show us your magnus.conf and obj.conf files.
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Performance (Linux or Solaris)

Hi folks,
We have been asked by many clients which performs better / faster (Linux vs Solaris).
The environment is:
Intel Xeon Server Hardware
Local Disk (SAS) - RAID 5
Single Server install
Single Location
VirtualBox as Hypervisor
I am asking for your feedback / experience with Linux vs Solaris implementing VDI 3.4.1

Hi,
we have done some extensive testing on this. One of our clients had some severe issues with performance on Linux after a migration from solaris to linux (on the same hardware) the system load/utilization went up by a factor of 4-5 (server could easily handle 200 sessions with solaris and only 40-50 with linux). We never managed to find the root cause (or a solution) for this and migrated back to solaris.
But we tried to replicate this issue in the lab (without success). So what we did was this:
Install Solaris 10 and Linux on one hard drive each and also install SRS 5.3.1 (we also tried this with a few older versions). We set up kiosk sessions to connect to a windows terminal server (we did not bother to compare virtualbox perfoamce) and launch a web browser to a website with loads of flash and moving content. We had about 20 DTUs connect to this server and monitored the system load, utilization and so on of the Xnewt processes. At one point we also automatically started some audio stream to measure the performance of utaudiod. The result (for 2 different servers) was that linux and solaris are really close to each other in performance terms. Solaris showed a little less utilization, about 5-10% maybe. But really quite negligable.
Long story short: we have seen really poor performance with linux once but in all other cases linux performed almost as well as solaris. And we never compared the virtualbox hypervisors which might be yet another story.
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I write some code to display table structure of a table,when I connect to sybase,sql server,oracle on Windows or HP or AIX, it works well,but when I connect to Oracle 8.1.7 or Oracle 9.0.1 on Linux and Solaris, these code does not work correctly. My oracle jdbc driver is 9.0.1.

As a copy of this query has been posted to the CR design forum at 11:21, assuming this is indeed a design question.
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Linux install server and solaris 10

Hi,
I am trying to learn Solaris as a student. I bought a SPARC (Netra T105 UltrasparcII) server on ebay which requires a network install as there is no cd-rom, or keyboard.
I only have a linux box (like I said, I'm a stingy student) to use as an install server, there is a few tutorials out there to try and do this, but none for Solaris 10. I have been hacking away at this for days, but cannot get it to install. I have the sparc server using RARP and then getting the /etc/bootparams file and downloading the boot files, but it does not get to locating the jumpstart files or the install files (I dont know if I can install from the terminal using the keyboard (without jumpstart) - I have not got that far yet).
I always get this, like it cannot find the install directory, I was wireshark on the linux boot server and see loads of NFS traffic after the TFTP download, but cannot seem to see what part it actually at. I have a detailed log at the bottom from putty. Any help greatly appreciated.Cheers
ERROR: bpgetfile unable to access network
/sbin/install-discovery: information: not found
Linux box setup:
/etc/bootparams
solaris root=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot rootopts=rsize=32768 boottype=:in install=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/Solaris_10/Product sysid_config=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/jumpstart/sysidcfg install_config=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/jumpstart/jumpstart.conf
TFTP setup from /tftpboot:
[root@robert tftpboot]# ll
total 232
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 10 13:55 C0A80214 -> inetboot
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 221280 Jun 10 13:47 inetboot
The Openboot can get ahold of the inetboot file and downloads and it and then loads it.
The following directories are exported through NFS
[root@robert sunos_install]# cat /etc/exports
#/home/nfs 192.168.2.0/24(ro,sync)
/home/sunos *(ro,no_root_squash)
/home/sunos_install *(ro,no_root_squash)
[root@robert tftpboot]# showmount -e localhost
Export list for localhost:
/home/sunos *
/home/sunos_install *
In /home/sunos, I have:
[root@robert sunos]# tree -L 2
|-- Solaris_10
| `-- Tools
|-- boot
| |-- hsfs.bootblock
| `-- sparc.miniroot
`-- lost+found
In /home/sunos_install, I have:
[root@robert sunos_install]# tree -L 2
|-- Solaris_10
| `-- Product
|-- jumpstart
| |-- jumpstart.conf
| `-- sysidcfg
`-- lost+found
[root@robert jumpstart]# cat jumpstart.conf
install_type initial_install
system_type server
partitioning explicit
filesys any 2000 /
filesys any 1500 swap
filesys any 1500 /var
filesys any 2000 /opt
geo N_America
cluster SUNWCreq
package SUNWgzip add
package SUNWless add
package SUNWman add
package SUNWbash add
package SUNWtcsh add
package SUNWzsh add
[root@robert jumpstart]# cat sysidcfg
system_locale=en_US
timezone=US/Pacific
terminal=xterms
name_service=NONE
timeserver=pool.ntp.org
security_policy=NONE
root_password=xxxx
network_interface=primary
{ hostname=js-test
ip_address=192.168.2.20
netmask=255.255.255.0
protocol_ipv6=yes}
Putty log file from console:
root server: 192.168.2.10 (192.168.2.10)
root directory: /home/sunos/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000, 0x10a096d] data at 0x1800000
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x10a0970, 0x12615bf] data at 0x1867cc0
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at [0x12615c0, 0x12615c7] data at 0x18bdf80
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi: text at [0x1261600, 0x126da07] data at 0x18be680
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_139555-08 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
\|/Ethernet address = 8:0:20:c2:1b:b4
-Using default device instance data
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/mem = 1048576K (0x40000000)
avail mem = 846602240
root nexus = Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
pseudo0 at root
pseudo0 is /pseudo
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhci0 is /scsi_vhci
ramdisk0 at root
ramdisk0 is /ramdisk-root
root on /ramdisk-root:a fstype ufs
pseudo-device: dld0
dld0 is /pseudo/dld@0
pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0
pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,0
PCI-device: pci@1,1, simba0
simba0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1
SUNW,hme0 : PCI IO 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found
SUNW,hme0 : Local Ethernet address = 8:0:20:c2:1b:b4
PCI-device: network@1,1, hme0
hme0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
SUNW,hme1 : PCI IO 2.0 (Rev Id = c1) Found
SUNW,hme1 : Local Ethernet address = 8:0:20:c2:1b:b5
PCI-device: network@3,1, hme1
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PCI-device: ebus@1, ebus0
ebus0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1
su0 at ebus0: offset 14,3803f8
su0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3803f8
cpu0: UltraSPARC-IIi (portid 0 impl 0x12 ver 0x91 clock 440 MHz)
iscsi0 at root
iscsi0 is /iscsi
|pseudo-device: zfs0
zfs0 is /pseudo/zfs@0
Configuring devices.
/pseudo-device: devinfo0
devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
PCI-device: pci@1, simba1
simba1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1
pseudo-device: pseudo1
pseudo1 is /pseudo/zconsnex@1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1 (hme0) online
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2 (glm0):
Rev. 3 Symbios 53c875 found.
PCI-device: scsi@2, glm0
glm0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2
PCI-device: pci@1, pci_pci0
pci_pci0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1
su1 at ebus0: offset 14,3602f8
su1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3602f8
ecpp0 at ebus0: offset 14,340278
ecpp0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/ecpp@14,340278
pseudo-device: fssnap0
fssnap0 is /pseudo/fssnap@0
pseudo-device: ramdisk1024
ramdisk1024 is /pseudo/ramdisk@1024
sd0 at glm0: target 1 lun 0
sd0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/sd@1,0
pseudo-device: winlock0
winlock0 is /pseudo/winlock@0
pseudo-device: llc10
llc10 is /pseudo/llc1@0
pseudo-device: lofi0
lofi0 is /pseudo/lofi@0
pseudo-device: fcp0
fcp0 is /pseudo/fcp@0
pseudo-device: fcsm0
fcsm0 is /pseudo/fcsm@0
pseudo-device: trapstat0
trapstat0 is /pseudo/trapstat@0
pseudo-device: pool0
pool0 is /pseudo/pool@0
pseudo-device: mem_cache0
mem_cache0 is /pseudo/mem_cache@0
pseudo-device: fcode0
fcode0 is /pseudo/fcode@0
-\i2c0 at ebus0: offset 14,600000
i2c1 at ebus0: offset 14,100000
i2cadc0 at i2c0: reg=0x0:0x9E, name=bus,address="0,9e"
i2cadc0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/adc@0,9e
i2cgpio0 at i2c0: reg=0x0:0x70, name=bus,address="0,70"
i2cgpio0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/gpio@0,70
i2cgpio1 at i2c0: reg=0x0:0x72, name=bus,address="0,72"
i2cgpio1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/i2c@14,600000/gpio@0,72
|/-\|/-\|/-Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Attempting to configure interface hme1...
\|/-\|/-WARNING: hme1: fault detected in device; service degraded
WARNING: hme1: No response from Ethernet network : Link down -- cable problem?
\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-Skipped interface hme1
Attempting to configure interface hme0...
Configured interface hme0
ERROR: bpgetfile unable to access network
/sbin/install-discovery: information: not found

rmcnaught48 wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to learn Solaris as a student. I bought a SPARC (Netra T105 UltrasparcII) server on ebay which requires a network install as there is no cd-rom, or keyboard.
I only have a linux box (like I said, I'm a stingy student) to use as an install server, there is a few tutorials out there to try and do this, but none for Solaris 10. I have been hacking away at this for days, but cannot get it to install. I have the sparc server using RARP and then getting the /etc/bootparams file and downloading the boot files, but it does not get to locating the jumpstart files or the install files (I dont know if I can install from the terminal using the keyboard (without jumpstart) - I have not got that far yet).You can install using the keyboard with jumpstart. Without jumpstart you'd need local media (you can't enter the OS via the keyboard).
I always get this, like it cannot find the install directory, I was wireshark on the linux boot server and see loads of NFS traffic after the TFTP download, but cannot seem to see what part it actually at. I have a detailed log at the bottom from putty. Any help greatly appreciated.Cheers
ERROR: bpgetfile unable to access network
/sbin/install-discovery: information: not foundHmm. That looks like the image file is corrupt. Can you pull the image from media again? Can you see if there's a /sbin/install-discovery file in the image (usually under Tools/Boot/root). I recall there used to be a problem with that file.
Linux box setup:
/etc/bootparams
solaris root=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot rootopts=rsize=32768 boottype=:in install=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/Solaris_10/Product sysid_config=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/jumpstart/sysidcfg install_config=192.168.2.10:/home/sunos_install/jumpstart/jumpstart.confIf you just want an interactive install (prompt for configuration/settings), you don't need sysid_config or install_config. Those are for automated installations.
TFTP setup from /tftpboot:
[root@robert tftpboot]# ll
total 232
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 10 13:55 C0A80214 -> inetboot
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 221280 Jun 10 13:47 inetboot
The Openboot can get ahold of the inetboot file and downloads and it and then loads it.
The following directories are exported through NFS
[root@robert sunos_install]# cat /etc/exports
#/home/nfs 192.168.2.0/24(ro,sync)
/home/sunos *(ro,no_root_squash)
/home/sunos_install *(ro,no_root_squash)
[root@robert tftpboot]# showmount -e localhost
Export list for localhost:
/home/sunos *
/home/sunos_install *That looks pretty good.
You do have the option of running VMware on linux, and putting a Solaris 10 image on it, then using that VM as your boot server. But the problem you're displaying doesn't appear to be related to the linux server.
Darren

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