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

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