Solaris Internet Configuration in VMWare and installation

Question

Hi !
I'm really passionate about this unix-solaris thing.
But these nudges are pulling me back from installing it actually in my hard drive.
And also there is the Internet configuration problem.
Problem:1
I have 2 IDE HDD.
Primary HDD: 80 GB
VolumeName-Type-Size
SystemBoot-Primary/Active/NTFS-100 MB
Extended Partition:
VISTA-Logical/NTFS-20 GB
2008-Logical/NTFS-10 GB
Data-Logical/NTFS-25 GB
Music-Logical/NTFS-9.42 GB
Solaris-Logical/BLANK-10GB .....Blank = No FS. Used Acronis DD10 for it.
Slave HDD: 40 GB
Extended Partition:
XP-Logical/NTFS-10GB
Fedora9-Logical/ext3-10GB
SWAP-Logical/SWAP-2GB
OpenSUSE103-Logical/ext3-15.25 GB
When I came to HDD configuration stage of installation,
I selected the pre-selected c0d0(bootdisk) ---Primary HDD/80GB.
But when I proceeded further it showed me:
Warning � The initial fdisk information found on the disk
c0d0 was invalid. Defaulting the entire disk to a Solaris partition.
So I aborted the installation.
I tried one more time, by changing the Solaris Blank logical drive to a primary partition.
But it didn't work.
Now I think Solaris 10 cannot be installed in a logical drive or more broadly speaking(assuming) it cannot be installed in HDD having logical drives,it should be all primary partitions.
Please help me on this.
I'm sick of installing it in VMWare.
Problem: 2
How am I supposed to configure my network connection.
I connect to my ISP using WAN Miniport(PPPOE).
It allots me dynamic IP(v4).
I read somewhere DNS should f.root-servers.net and in a magazine, a.solaris.net
I never came across such a thing in even in linux.
Problem: 3
If there is not so �feasible� solution to problem 1, VMWare Workstation comes into play.
And here too, I need help for configuration of network connection.
These are the values that I got when I installed Windows XP in the VMWare.
LAC -Local Area Connection
LAC � Limited or no connectivity
IP � 169.254.127.90
Subnet -255.255.0.0
Adapter #2 � Bridged
LAC -2
IP -192.168.21.132
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway -192.168.21.2
DHCP Srv 192.168.21.254
DNS/WINS Srv 192.168.21.2
Adapter#1 � NAT
LAC � 3
IP 192.168.209.135
Subnet 255.255.255.0
DHCP Srv 192.168.209.254
DNS � 192.168.209.1
Adapter #3 � Host Only
Thanks In Advance !

Answer 1

Ted-Moran wrote:
First – Same process runs on both local and global zone.
On the SPARC unit (SGDSZ-IS) where Ipfilter and the SGD’s are running I have great access to the internet, but I am seeing that when I try to run a browser in a Local Zone the process for mozilla is runing in the Global zone.A process can only be in one zone at a time, but if you run 'ps' in the global zone, it can see processes in all zones.
In the global zone, you can run something like the following:
ps -e -o 'pid,zone,args'. That will show the zone associated with any particular process.
Mozillia process running in both the global and local zones.
ps–ef | grep moz in both the local and global zone confirms this.
Global Zone
# uname -a
SunOS SGDSZ-IS 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
# ps -ef | grep moz
operator 12025 1 0 12:00:53 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh -p /usr/sfw/bin/mozilla[...]
Local ZONE 2
# uname -a
SunOS OPS-SGD-IS 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
# ps -ef | grep moz
operator 12025 634 0 12:00:53 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh -p /usr/sfw/bin/mozillaThe global zone doesn't correctly show the parent relationship with all processes within zones.
Darren