Solaris

Disk space reallocation during upgrade - why??
In article <6a43knF34u146U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Ian Collins <ian-news(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Dave wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: /usr/local is not just "hardly used on Solaris"! At least in modern versions of Solaris it is not part of the O/S at all. Agreed. This fact has not... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Sandisk Sansa "Clip" mp3-player: can load-up via unix/solaris?
In article <vilain-2DED17.00023516062008(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: In article <g34ukt$kt$1(a)panix2.panix.com>, dkcombs(a)panix.com (David Combs) wrote: I've purchased an mp3-player (named "The Clip"). Tech support says the only way I can upload music, etc to... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

tuning NFS for stat()
Good questions: Greg Andrews wrote: What kind of NFS mounts are you currently using? v2, v3 or v4? Generally v2. I should have added that though the NFS server is Solaris, the clients can be Solaris or Linux or (potentially, down the road) something else. This is one of the reasons for v2, since Linux h... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Solaris Patching on Mirrored Disks
Hi All, I Need to install new patch cluster in a mirrored system. I had detached the second sub mirror and installed the patch. But unfortunely my first disk has some problem. Can someone tell how to boot from detached submirror. Please let me know list of procedure should i follow to boot from second dis... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

sorry, variable 'BIT_SIZE' is not defined in the 'kernel'
Hi all, I recently built a Solaris Sparc 10 6/06 server on a Sunfire 280R. The DBA's advised that I needed to include the following setting in / etc/system: set BIT_SIZE=64 Once this was done the oracle install worked fine. My problem is on a reboot I get the following message: sorry, variable 'BIT_SIZE' is ... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

OpenSolaris Custom Install
is there any way to do a custom install of this release? talking about the 05/08 just released.. I'm OK with the live CD concept, my problem is there seems to be no way to customize the install - drive partition/layout, network config.. Forcing someone to use someone else's idea of disk layout IMO is not coo... 7 May 2008 15:53

adding packages after installation
I have a sun box running Solaris 9. I had been instructed to remove SSH from this server, however we need to reinstall it now. How can I reinstall it from the Sol9 DVD? ... 7 May 2008 15:53

UTF-8 character order bug?
So in keeping with the "future-thinking" way of doing things, I thought I'd switch my locale to UTF-8. Sadly, it breaks a number of things. I can live (unhappily) with having my upper and lower case filenames interspersed, but that ordering causes some interesting problems. Specifically: Letters are ordered lo... 7 May 2008 13:25

Solaris Zones - memory management?
This link states that it is not possible to constrain memory usage in zones. Is this still the case? http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/Virtualization/zones.shtml IC: Are the physical CPU and RAM shared among Zones? Is it possible to allocate different resources to different Zones? Jeff Victor: Solar... 7 May 2008 15:04

Solaris 10 zone from flar
Hey all, Recently, I had the idea to build a development machine that could provide a separate development possibilities for each of our developers, so they wouldn't get in each others way by screwing up the libraries or so. The problem was that we use Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 systems, and that there is a differ... 7 May 2008 09:20