VirtualBox is a great way to test out new operating systems, without having to configure your machine to dual-boot. You can even install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. There are two ways to obtain free operating systems for VirtualBox: using virtual disk images (VDIs) or actual installation disks. Downloa...

The steps outlined in this blog post are derived from the Miscellaneous filesystem support for OpenSolaris on x86 web page. I just added few examples to illustrate the steps to mount a partition with NTFS filesystem that exists on the external hard drive (in this case, it is a Seagate FreeAgent exte...

Sun Microsystems oferă utilizatorilor posibilitatea de a testa ultima versiune de OpenSolaris pe o maşină fizică cu control de la distanţă prin intermediul unui laborator vitual [1]. După înregistrarea (gratuită) la Sun Developers Network aveţi la dispoziţie timp de o oră un sistem într...

Two years ago, Intel announced to support Opensolaris. Dave Steward summarizes the developments and help from Intel in an interesting blog article: Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of Core. The list of contributions is long and will be even longer in the future: Looking forward to 2009...

The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning. One of t...

I wrote it before in my blog, but once (when i was young and wild) i threw a sales rep out of my office, who tried to get into the account (me) by FUDing their competitor. I was responsible for an project in the range of 10 Million Euro, thus i assume they got to much "Deutsche Mark" signs in their ...

From googling around, I have found that dual booting isn't so hard... if you are installing both for the first time. However, I couldn't find anything on if I can preserve my Solaris 10 partition that is already installed. Any words of advice?...

I recently installed two new hard drives onto an OpenSolaris v5.11 machine. I need to format the two disks. I tried the format command. It asks me for the number of data cylinders and alternate cylinders.... <see below> admin@minime-28:/dev/rdsk# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DIS...

Dear Solaris Experts, I am a bit confused about OpenSolaris Hard Drive device mapping. On RedHat Linux based system, an IDE on first channel master drive is mapped as /dev/hda, first channel slave drive will be /dev/hdb, etc. For (Open)Solaris systems I found it as /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0 : myself@myopenso...

I have my solaris in a partition on my hard drive the other partition which i want to use for backup, how do i format this partition for use as backup. I know if i format with NTFS it will only work for windows and not solaris...