SUNWCrnet explained
One of the new features in the Installation section is the appearance of a new Metacluster or Cluster Configuration called SUNWCrnet. Super minimum with many things blocked by default and only few...
View ArticleSolaris 10 1/06 : Grub, the new x86 bootloader
With the first update of Solaris 10 soon to be released, it is about time to get to know Grub, the new bootloader for x86 machines. Here are two detailed documents from BigAdmin that explain...
View ArticleJET 4.1, Solaris 10 and zones
This blog entry was a good starting point to find out where the Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit was with regards to Solaris 10. The link mentions that : “the (new) bundle contains a JET module called...
View ArticleTool to check whether Solaris 10 will run on a PC
BigAdmin is hosting a new tool : Installation Check Tool 1.0 The tool is actually an (68MB) ISO image to burn on a CD. Try to boot from the CD and after the Solaris 10 01/06 kernel is started, the...
View ArticleHow to Quickly Install the Solaris 10 1/06 OS on x86/x64
From sun.com : Go to the article T: Solaris 10
View ArticleAzureus for Solaris x86
Now that I want to download OpenOffice for Solaris x86 to compare it with the StarOffice suite provided with Solaris 10, I see that the download is available as a torrent. The problem is that Solaris...
View ArticleInfodoc 72099 : Solaris[TM] Live Upgrade Software: Minimum Patch Requirements
There is the list of patches to install before using Live Upgrade, for all Solaris releases. Go to the article
View ArticleInfodoc 83605 : Mirroring the Boot disk using SVM in Solaris 10 U1 for x86
The full procedure, starting from fdisk, including all meta commands and ending with “installgrub”. Go to the article
View ArticleSolaris WANboot setup script
BigAdmin script submitted by a Sun employee and supposed to automate the Wanboot configuration. Includes all that is needed to obtain SSL-protection. Go to the script T: Wanboot
View ArticleAdding Device Drivers to the New Boot Install Image in the Solaris 10 OS for...
Found in BigAdmin & quite useful. Go to the article
View ArticleSolaris locales
“A locale is a collection of files, data, and sometimes code, which contain the necessary information to adapt Solaris to a specific geographical market. It is essentially a “bundle”, containing...
View ArticleUsing Solaris JumpStart With the Solaris 10 OS for x86/x64 Platforms
A good BigAdmin article on a somewhat disturbing procedure for Sparc workers. Go to the article
View ArticleThe best boot disk layout
Interesting to see Sun describing & explaining their own “best” boot disk layout : the one used by Sun Service people when sitting at the customer site. Go to the article
View ArticleOpensolaris & wifi Broadcom BCM4312 on Dell Vostro 1710
The steps of the procedure can be found in various places but I like to summarize the information my own way. Starting point : OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101a_rc1b X86 The procedure seems to be valid for...
View ArticleOpenSolaris & Sun Secure Global desktop
Oddly enough, it appears that using Sun Secure Global desktop (SGD) from OpenSolaris doesn’t work from scratch. When my browsers try to connect to the server after authenticating, the browser never...
View ArticleCentOS 3.9 running in an lx branded zone
Recently tried the Linux Branded zone within OpenSolaris, part of the BrandZ project, added to Solaris 8/07. It is said to be working with only a defined number of Linux distributions, namely CentOS...
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