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...

Plz help me in installing solaris 10 11/06 on XP sp2 system having only one hard disk...

so i've grabbed this sun netra t1 for some small dev work. now obviously i need to install sol10. no problem done it a million times except for the fact that i've never actually done it w/o a term server. so i grab a usb to serial and a serial to rj45 (the one you get in every cisco order.. roll ove...

hi I changed nfs options in "/etc/auto_master": /net -hosts rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,ve rs=3,timeo=600,actimeo=0 then I did automount -v svcadm restart svc:/system/filesystem/autofs svcadm restart svc:/network/nfs/server:default When doing 'mount' command,I see remote/...

I want to build a little website on a Sun Blade 100 running Solaris 10. I just went out to apache.org and downloaded Unix Source: httpd-2.2.8.tar.gz After unpacking the tarball, I CD'd into the subdirectory and ran the configure utility. Of course, it crapped out. I see that it is complaining about ...

Flight of the Conchords - Something Special For All The Ladies Some of you are probably wondering where I’ve been hiding and why I’m not posting. I’m still alive and kicking, it’s just that lately at work I’ve been consumed by a project to tidy up our server room. Basic...

I have a simple makefile which I use to sync libraries files from /source/sybase directory on the source machine where the Makefile resides to /destination/folder on the various destination machines like machine1, machine2, machine3 using solaris utility 'rsync'. So when I run "make -f makefile...