New To Solaris 10

Hi
This is Pawan for the first time i have downloaded Solaris 10 download only to windows (5 CDs) and i have unzipped and i tried to write the image on to the CD by using NERO 6 by clicking the option make boot able disc
but finally I failed in creating image....
The one CD that i created i tried it by restarting the system and on the screen it displayed some sort of system configuration details and finally it stopped at :A\> this prompt plz help me anyon by telling me how to creat the image on the CDs ..
Presently iam using Windows XP and iam having NERO 6 version to create the disc plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
regards

hai robert
ya ,actually i mean to say that i found the solution anyway,i have a query regarding the installation, hey how can i install solaris witha windows 2000 professional OS let me know how is it possible

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New to Solaris, Some Samba and NTFS issues.

Hi Im new to solaris and trying out ZFS which has been great.
Im haivng some trouble that I cant find up to date info on so here goes:
First how do you mount an NTFS volume in Solaris 11 Express?
I need to access the data on an NTFS drive to populate my new ZFS tank.
Secondly, I have read only access on my samba shares from windows machines but my smb.conf looks right. a copy of my smb.conf will follow
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
# For a step to step guide on installing, configuring and using samba,
# read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This may be obtained from:
# http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
# Many working examples of smb.conf files can be found in the
# Samba-Guide which is generated daily and can be downloaded from:
# http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors.
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH
workgroup = WORKGROUP
# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = Samba Server
# Security mode. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible
# values are share, user, server, domain and ads. Most people will want
# user level security. See the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for details.
security = share
# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
; hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
load printers = yes
# you may wish to override the location of the printcap file
; printcap name = /etc/printcap
# on SystemV system setting printcap name to lpstat should allow
# you to automatically obtain a printer list from the SystemV spool
# system
; printcap name = lpstat
# It should not be necessary to specify the print system type unless
# it is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include:
# bsd, cups, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx
; printing = cups
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# otherwise the user "nobody" is used
; guest account = pcguest
# this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = /var/samba/log/log.%m
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max log size = 50
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# The argument list may include:
# password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name]
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; password server = <NT-Server-Name>
# Use the realm option only with security = ads
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; realm = MY_REALM
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# compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration.
passdb backend = smbpasswd
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; local master = no
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; os level = 33
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; domain master = yes
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# and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election
; preferred master = yes
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; logon script = %U.bat
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; add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
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; delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
; delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g
; delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
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writable = yes
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writable = no
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; writable = no
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; only guest = yes
; writable = yes
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; path = /usr/somewhere/shared
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; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765
[Series]
comment = TV Series
path = /home/Kirby/Series
public = yes
only guest = yes
writable = yes
printable = no

875739 wrote:
Hi Im new to solaris and trying out ZFS which has been great.
Im haivng some trouble that I cant find up to date info on so here goes:
First how do you mount an NTFS volume in Solaris 11 Express?
I need to access the data on an NTFS drive to populate my new ZFS tank.I never had a need for it but I think you'll have to compile fuse ntfs-3g manually.
http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/u46DbWSGcIzl7pexf4hQ
>
Secondly, I have read only access on my samba shares from windows machines but my smb.conf looks right. a copy of my smb.conf will follow
Any suggestions would be appreciated.You don't need to use Samba in Solaris 11 Express.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gaynd.html#gayne

I'm new to Solaris...well *nix in general

I'm new to Solaris...well *nix in general.
While looking into extending my programming knowledge to include Java I came across a link to download Solaris 10 for free�so I did.
I have installed it on an old 1Ghz Athlon box to play with for a while, before I build a new box to put it in. So far so good (apart from the network card). I was wandering if anyone could recommend some good resources to learn how to administer a Solaris 10 box? I would prefer a good book or documents that I can download and print out.
Thanks
Gary.

Sorry, just found docs.sun.com.
Isn�t it always the way, you look around for thing with no luck, you give up and ask and there it is in front of you.

New to Solaris (unix) - basic questions (please)

Hello!
I am completely new in Solaris World, and in fact in Linux too. All I can do (may be) is to walk throught dir tree. I have one big question and many many small ones. I've just installed Solaris 10 (writing this there), I am very happy and I don't know what to do. I hope you can give me some advice. Well, the big question is where to get information about how to do basic tasks I've been doing in windows?
The smaller questions (problems) is:
1) When I boot solaris it actually goes to console, and no window system (GNOME, CDE) appears. I've already been lucky for 2 times and I managed to launch windows by typing 'gnome-terminal', but it ofter respond with something and no window system lauched. Can I do so, that window system launched automatically?
2) I have primary partition on my hard drive with FAT 32 to share files with WindowsXP. Where can I see these files in Solaris (may be I should mount, how?)
3) How can I see files on my USB flash (how to mount)
4) Do I have to install drivers for my monitor(video card) in Solaris?
5) When I type 'man' its ok, but 'man ls' respond 'No manual entry for ls' (and all other commands. How to fix it?
6) Where I should store my files (doc, music etc. ). In windows its typically on different partitions (folders)
Thank you, and hoping for help.

Well you've a long road ahead. But heres a start:
Answer to Question 1) /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -eQuestion 2) If there are FAT32 driver in Solaris 10 (There weren't to my knowledge in Sol9 or earlier) you would need to mount them.
'man mount'
Question 3) would be similar to the answer to question 2, although you may be able to configure autofs for it 'man autofs'
Question 4) Not necessarily, but to get full functionality of your video card, yes - see manufacturers website
Question 5) Your MANPATH environment variable is bad OR you did not install them .... try 'pkginfo SUNWman' if it returns anything but not found try 'MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/sfw/man ;export MANPATH' You can add additionaly directories pointing to manpage install locations by adding a colon followed by the directory.. first off hit 'man man'
Question 6) Gnome will help once you get it going (see answer 1). Otherwise store it however you like, just don't let the root partition get full or you'll likely crash it.

New to Solaris question help please

Just successfully installed Solaris 10 on VMWare ESXi and assigned it 50GB of HDD space. When I type df -h I see that 79% of my disk is used and the rest of the storage is nowhere to be found.
I'm new to Solaris is this because the rest of the drive hasn't been partitioned? Some help would be greatly appreciate so that I can take advantage of the rest of my volume...
Thanks!
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 7.9G 6.1G 1.7G 79% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 1.5G 880K 1.5G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
7.9G 6.1G 1.7G 79% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 1.5G 2.2M 1.5G 1% /tmp
swap 1.6G 84M 1.5G 6% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 7.9G 8.0M 7.8G 1% /export/home
/dev/dsk/c0d0s6 6.8G 7.0M 6.8G 1% /export/software
/hgfs 16G 4.0M 16G 1% /hgfs
/tmp/VMwareDnD 0K 0K 0K 0% /var/run/vmblock

I don't recall allocating anything during installation.Which means that you did a default installation with no customization. Looking over your file system layout confirms this.
I have an update df -h listing as well (I installed on a different system)
# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 4.6G 4.0G 596M 88% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 1.7G 868K 1.7G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
4.6G 4.0G 596M 88% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 1.7G 120K 1.7G 1% /tmp
swap 1.7G 24K 1.7G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 44G 245M 43G 1% /export/home
From this, I understand that /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 has a size 4.6GB (assuming the OS is installed here) when I download items to the desktop, it appears they are placed in this "disk"?Depends on where you told Firefox to place them by default. You could just as easily configure it, Edit, Preferences, Main, Downloads, tell it to place the downloads somewhere else.
> Also, /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 is where 44GB of free storage resides, I believe this is located in /export/home (as a folder with 44GB of space available) as far as my knowledge of Solaris is concerned.
Correct. Solaris is a multi-user system that leaves plenty of space for user home directories which default to /export/home. IMNSHO the space that is leaves behind for / is usually small enough to make the system unusable after applying only a few patches. If you switch to OpenSolaris 2008.11 you can ZFS which will mitigate most of these problems.
Just a little confusing to a newbie, coming from a Microsoft background (forgive me!) I am used to seeing volumes as icons in My Computer.The Windows tool for managing disks is nice and graphical.
What's your advice for managing volumes, formating to ZFS, maybe some visual method of understanding volumes?If you haven't done much with the system then you might consider switching to OpenSolaris with the caveat that some parts of Solaris are not available in OpenSolaris because of licensing issues. However, for someone who's just starting out you won't miss them.
For understanding, http://www.docs.sun.com / Solaris / Administration and then look for the two books on Disk Management. One is for ZFS and the other is for UFS. ZFS and Volume Manager Administration
alan

New to solaris---is update manager working correctly?

well as my subject says I am new to solaris having put it on an pc bout a week ago. as I am using the "free" verson (not open solaris) I knew I would not be entitled to certain goodies but seem to have run into an issue getting the updates I (presumably) am entitled to. simply put I open up the solaris application "update manager" which is on my desktop saying "updates available". now upon initially launching the app I specified that I was using the free version (well it let me register without a code so I assume sun knows my status), and then selected the option to put a check mark next to all available updates. well after waiting like a full day with it showing that is was still in the process up updating I eventually aborted the process. I then tried installing a couple of the updates and though it took a while it worked. so I selected 3 of 4 more and again the update manager showed that I was updating but nothing was happening (to my knowledge). after several hours I aborted the app again. so what am I doing wrong. first off I am assuming that what sun presents to me is what is actually available to me using the free unregistered version of solaris. why then would updates fail? btw I know some linux (not an expert) and I figured that behind the scenes update manager was checking for dependencies and installing what I needed from sun repos. but of course I could be way off bass here. so what gives? thanks much in advance.

first off I am assuming that what sun presents to me is what is actually available to me using the free unregistered version of solaris.No. Update Manager will show you everything but will only allow you to install basically security and a small subset of other patches.
When you ran through the Solaris registration GUI you had a chance to enter a support contract #. If you chose not to enter one or if you want to use it without registering then you only get access to a few of the patches.
alan

New to Solaris 9 - Needs some help, if some could answer my question plz !!

Hello!
During the installation when I set that the computer is not networked, everything (SMC) seems to work absolutely fine.
But when I set the option that the computer is networked, The SMC (Solaris management Console) doesn;t startup. it says again and again that the server couldn't be found. Although I tried to stop and again start the SMC server process, but it didn;t work.,
Please help me out !!!!

I'll give this a shot:
Does other network traffic work? Assuming that you are new to Solaris 9, and not just UNIX in general, you may want to make sure that your network settings are correct (ip addy, netmask, default route, and so on) SMC usually starts up a network service on port 898 (IIRC), and then starts up the client (the actual GUI) and connects to itself.

New to Solaris administration - Need some help with some issues

Hello all,
I am a new to Solaris administration and need some assistance with a few things. I was going to make separate posts but decided it would be easy to keep track of in one. I really do not know much about the OS but I do have a little Linux background so that might help me out. I am going to number my problems to keep them sorted, so here we go.
The machine:
Sunfire V880
4x 73GB HDs
PCI dual fiber channel host adapter
Attached RAID array:
Sun StorEdge T3 Array with 9x 73GB HDs
Sun DDS4 Tape Drive in a Unipack
OS: Solaris 5.10
Updates: Updated everything except 2 patches (Updating is a real pain isn't it? At least it seems that way to me.)
1. So I might as well start with the update issues! These 2 updates will not install:
-PostgreSQL 8.2 source code, (137004-02)
Utility used to install the update failed with exit code {0}.
-Patch for mediaLib in solaris, (121620-03)
Install of update failed. Utility used to install the update is not able to save files. Utility used to install the update failed with exit code 4.
No idea why the PostgreSQL update is not working, but the medialib patch seems to not have enough hard drive space.
2. Where are all the drives? I don't know how to find the RAID box or the other 3 internal hard drives. When I installed the OS, I think I installed it on only one hard drive and that might be part of the reason why the medialibe update above says that I don't have enough space.
3. I probably need more space for the OS and updates, is there a way to "add" space onto the hard drive that currently is running the OS?
3. Once I see the other hard drives I wish to combine them to make a RAID 0 and RAID 5 array, how do I go about doing that?
4. How can I find/see the tape drive?
5. Does my swap space really need to be 64GB? I know the book I have read suggests it, but I only made it 5GB because it didn't seem to make sense to make it 64GB.
Thank you in advance for the help. I know these are a lot of questions to ask but please go easy on me :)
rjbanker
Edited by: rjbanker on Mar 7, 2008 8:21 AM

SolarisSAinPA*
1.
-PostgreSQL 8.2 source code, (137004-02)
Utility used to install the update failed with exit code {0}.
Exit code 0 means there were no errors. When you run showrev -p 137004-02, does your system show that the patch is installed? You can check the log for a particular patch add attempt in /var/sadm/patch/+patch_num_rev+1- A bunch of stuff shows up, here is a portion (I am not entirely sure what it means, there must be a least a page of stuff like this):
Patch: 121081-08 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc cccrr, SUNWccccr, SUNWccfw, SUNWccsign, SUNWcctpx, SUNWccinv, SUNWccccfg, SUNWcc fwctrl
Patch: 122231-01 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc ctpx
Patch: 120932-01 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcctpx
Patch: 123123-02 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWccinv
Patch: 121118-12 Obsoletes: Requires: 121453-02 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWc smauth, SUNWppror, SUNWpprou, SUNWupdatemgru, SUNWupdatemgrr, SUNWppro-plugin-su nos-base
2.
Where are all the drives? I don't know how to find the RAID box or the other 3 internal hard drives. When I >installed the OS, I think I installed it on only one hard drive and that might be part of the reason why the >medialibe update above says that I don't have enough space.
When you run format command, how many drives are listed? Identify your root drive (compare with output of df command you ran earlier) Please post here.2. Output of df-hk, looks like I ran out of room. Should I just go ahead and reinstall the OS?
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 42G 1.3M 42G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1
5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1
5.9G 5.4G 378M 94% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 42G 1.1M 42G 1% /tmp
swap 42G 32K 42G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 46G 47M 46G 1% /export/home
3. So I guess the general consensus is to reinstall the OS, is that correct?
4. There is nothing in \dev\rmt, and unfortunately I don't have a tape to test it with!
5. I guess 5GB will be ok for what we do.
Alan.pae*
1. I think the above text might explain why it failed, although I don't know how to correct it.
2. Output of format:
# mount
/ on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:51 2008
/devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4dc0000 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/system/contract on ctfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e00001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/proc on proc read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e40000 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/etc/mnttab on mnttab read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4e80001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/etc/svc/volatile on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/system/object on objfs read/write/setuid/devices/dev=4f00001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:19 2008
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1 on /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1 read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:50 2008
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr.so.1 on /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/sparcv9/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1 read/write/setuid/devices/dev=1d80008 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:50 2008
/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid/devices/dev=50c0001 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:51 2008
/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0002 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:52 2008
/var/run on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=4ec0003 on Mon Mar 10 10:56:52 2008
/export/home on /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 read/write/setuid/devices/intr/largefiles/logging/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=1d8000f on Mon Mar 10 10:56:57 2008
3. Judging by the above text I will be doing a reinstall huh?
4. Actually I am not familiar with tape backups let alone solaris backup apps! Any suggestions? (Preferably free, have to cut down on costs.)
5. No comment
Thanks for the help, hope to hear from you again!
rjbanker

What's new in Solaris 10 1/06? Support for UltraSPARC IV+?

Where can I find out what is new in Solaris 10 1/06? I have seen this page, http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whats_new.jsp which doesn't give much detail. And it looks like docs.sun.com has not been updated with any 10 1/06 documentation.
Also, does Solaris 10 1/06 support UltraSPARC IV+?
Thanks.

You have tried reading through the "view all" categories I hope ? Because that really is what changed ;-)
Seriously, its not that spectacular as you can see. Some programs have been "enhanced" (bugfixed IMO) and the most drastic (new) features are IMO basicly using / adding Grub to the x86 branch and making the update manager part of the system.

New to solaris what should I be downloading solaris 10 or opensolaris?

well I have some experience with redhat but want to learn solaris as, well I really will never be able to get a linux/unix position if I only know one. hmm so I started looking around and got confused by the many versions now available of solaris. so after bout an hour is seems like...
1) the solaris 10 os is released for free
2) there are multiple solaris's based off this code but the one solaris is pushing is the opensolaris 2008.05.
in my mind I figure that solaris loosely relates to redhat then and opensolaris loosely relates to fedora.
so here are my questions.
I see solaris is "free" but I can't figure out exactly what that means. I know for instance that me sitting at home at night learning will not be able to call or email sun for support (too bad that would be sweet). but once installed can I get applications, use the sun software installation system (whatever would be like yum to redhat) to get software, will it be from a repo sponsored by sun? also how would I update the system. for instance I see a new version of solairs will be out in late october. do I have to do a complete reinstall or can I just plop in a new cd and hit "upgrade" (or something of that nature). basically I guess I am saying what am I missing by getting solaris free without support. is it just tech support or is it updates and software.
secondly, would opensolaris be a better option. the reason I am apprehensive is because based on some reviews I have read it is not supported by much hardware and is buggy. I really don't want to waist time downloading and installing this if regular old solaris 10 is the better option. thanks you much for helping a newbie out. I have a seconds pc waiting for this and remember it is basically so I can get up to speed so my solaris unix will be on par with my quite limited linux experience. thanks again...

I see so>night learning will not be able to call or email sun for support (too bad that would be sweet). but once installed can I get applications, use the sun software installation system (whatever would be like yum to redhat) to get software, will it be from a repo sponsored by sun?Depends. With Solaris you can use the Solaris Companion CD to get a few of the more generic programs or you can use sites such as Blastwave, SunFreeWare, Package Archive etc... to add more software of you can always compile from source.
OpenSolaris has a pkg install command which is analogous to yum and contains a lot more software then the Solaris Companion CD. If you hunt around you can get a list of all software that pkg install can install to your system.
also how would I update the system. for instance I see a new version of solairs will be out in late october. do I have to do a complete reinstall or can I just plop in a new cd and hit "upgrade" (or something of that nature). basically I Plop in the DVD and hit "upgrade" or you can do fancy things like live upgrade if you plan in advance.
guess I am saying what am I missing by getting solaris free without support. is it just tech support or is it updates and software. Patches that aren't labeled as critical or security, phone support, etc... are not part of "free" Solaris.
secondly, would opensolaris be a better option. the reason I am apprehensive is because based on some reviews I have read it is not supported by much hardware and is buggy. There is a device detection tool that can be used for either OS so you can see in advance if your hardware is probably supported. OpenSolaris contains programs that are generally more current then those that are offered by Solaris.
alan

DisAppointed news Sun Solaris forum ????????? True or False

hello Friends ,
I read some disappointed news on this forum
that sun would not continue support for intel edition
i donot know it is true of false
Any tell me what is exact matter on
following email :- [email protected]
or reply this letter

Cross-posted
Sun Solaris 5.10 - SSH 1.1.3-Not able to connect to server with ssh -Urgent
@O.P.
Don't do that.
In the future, pick the most appropriate forum and make your post.
Cross-posting is considered to be the same as rude spamming.
I'm not aware of any forum web-site-of-value that would encourage cross-posting in its etiquette guidelines.
... and as far as "Urgent" goes?
This web site is for the end-user community to gather and discuss various topics in general conversations. Your self-imposed time pressures are irrelevant. If you need actual technical support for something, then log a support case and pay for a speedy answer.
See the FAQ link at the top of the page.

New wiki: Solaris-Linux command comparison

Ever have trouble remembering command syntax in Solaris or Linux? Like the precise syntax for how to list the 10 largest files, create an ISO image, or manage printers? Can you remember the syntax in Linux but need the equivalent in Solaris? Or vice versa?
A new wiki -- "OTN Solaris-Linux Command Comparo" -- lists common sysadmin tasks for both Oracle Solaris 10 & Oracle Enterprise Linux 5. You can access the wiki at:
[https://wikis.sun.com/display/OTNTaskFinder/CommandComparo+Home|https://wikis.sun.com/display/OTNTaskFinder/CommandComparo+Home]
Note that you need to register for Oracle Wiki site access first at [http://wikis.sun.com/display/Help/Registering|http://wikis.sun.com/display/Help/Registering] . Please give us some feedback on the wiki and add the commands you most often forget...

Yes, we wanted to go a little more in-depth and list actual syntax, but the idea is the same. You'll note that "A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE)" is listed as a Reference in the .left-section panel of the wiki.

New book: Solaris 8 Security

Hello
A new Solaris 8 security book is now available:
Solaris 8 Security
by Edgar Danielyan
New Riders Publishing
2001
Available from amazon.com, bn.com, fatbrain.com and others

Ok,
You will need a Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service Contract.
http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris8eosl.pdf

Any good faq sites for ppl new to solaris?

Hi, just want to know if there are any good sites that teach
the basics on solaris and samba

Hi,
You try this URL:
http://docs.sun.com
Thanks.
revert back.
regards,
Senthilkumar
SUN - DTS

I'm new to Solaris 10 and need help to setup ftp server

hello!
I just installed Solaris 10 and I'm trying to setup an ftp server (with ftpd) but I don't know how to do that
my server doesn't need any security or authentication
I'm looking for the default shared files directory
Also wondering what to change in what configuration file...
This OS looks quite similar to some linux I used before but the differencies are big enough to drive me crazy
anyway thanks for your help.
Any advice is welcome :-)

cd /etc/ftpd
vi ftpusers
put a # in front of root and any other users that you wish to be able to ftp
then svcadm restart ftp
If you want to set up an anonymous ftp server, there is a little more involvement

Network,Sound,Video issues -NEW to solaris

Ok, i think before i ask my questions that i need to get something straight, i don't know a single thing about unix based systems, not one. Unfortunately i am (till i get this figured out) a windows server guy who is trying to get away from microsoft products, and i've never been on solaris or linux at all, so i don't know ANYTHING about commands, so if your explanation is a series of commands, please type them out for me clearly. Thanks in advance for understanding this.
Now, on to the problems...
Problem 1:
I have a Dell Latitude 110L Notebook with Solaris10 installed on it as part of a dual boot install i did. I cannot figure out how to create a connection to my router (for the internet) using my lan slot, i'd like to stay wireless, but since Solaris isn't made to accomodate laptops, i'm guessing that's out of the question. But either way, i still cannot connect using the lan port, and i cannot figure out how to do this with the network settings options.
Problem 2:
On this same laptop i get an error telling me that a sound device isn't found, i did some poking around and recieved another message telling me that AUDIOCTL wasn't found, then, after looking myself, noticed that it wasn't there.
Problem 3:
I have taken down my Server 2003 system and installed solaris on it to see if maybe it would work better on a desktop, like it was intended to be ;) , and everything went fine... till i tried logging in. The screen goes nuts, with lots of verticle distortion waves, but you can almost make out the desktop stuff. I think that i should mention that i'm using a Sony Trinitron 22" CRT monitor.
I would really like to use Solaris on my laptop, at least long enough to configure a website, so i can at least create a "Site under construction" page, that way when i'm ready to permanently replace Server2003 with Solaris my website members will know that the site will be back up soon enough, and that way i will already know the basics before taking my LIVE site down.... Like i just now did.
Any help is apreciated, and thanks in advance for your time.

Hello
1) The Latitude D410 uses a "bge" network card (I saw that in the Solaris HCL). I do not know if the 110L uses the same type of network card.
Try the following commands (as root):
ifconfig bge plumb
ifconfig bge0 plumb
ifconfig bge1 plumb
ifconfig bge5 plumb
If you only get error messages your card has not been detected or is not a bge network card.
You should do a "prtconf -v" (will print a lot of data about the devices in your system) and post this data to this forum (because it contains information about the network card). Maybe you'll have to patch the /etc/driver_aliases file.
2) The D410 uses a sound card that requires patching the /etc/driver_aliases file:
The HCL says:
Add this line to /etc/driver_aliases:
audio810 "pci8086,266e"
Then run this command to load the audio driver:
devfsadm -i audio810
Maybe another PCI ID is used in the 110L - the output "prtconf -v" will show this, too.
3) On your desktop: On the log-in screen you had a graphical log-in window or did you log in on a text screen?
Martin

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