In most office environments users will have a Windows workstation on their desktop; most locations do not have users’ log into a Unix/Linux desktop as their primary work environment. In ...
The version of BIND that comes with the most recent release of Solaris 10 is 9.3.6-P1. This document is meant to provide a step-by-step procedure to compile and install a ...
These are the procedures used create a mirrored boot drive using the onboard RAID controller on a T5120. The same procedure can be used with any Sun system that comes ...
Problem Description: I have a Jumpstart infrastructure set up that has had no problems installing Solaris natively on my servers. However, when I attempt to do so within a virtual ...
This was written as a quick reference guide for setting up a mirrored (RAID 1) boot device. I used a Sun Fire V240 system for this article. The same principles ...
This article explains how to configure the ILOM (Integratred Lights Out Manager) of a Sun Microsystems server to authenticate against a Windows Active Directory user account. To use AD accounts ...
Solaris provides an effective and simple method of creating virtual Solaris hosts- Solaris Zones. This article provides the procedures to create and run Solaris Zones under a Solaris 10 environment. ...
This is meant to provide a step-by-step walk-through on how to build a simple JumpStart server. For more details on further capabilities of JumpStart and other advanced installation topics please ...
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Published on May 18th, 2012no comments
There are two different network configuration modes/profiles in Solaris 11, Automatic and Manual. This Network Configuration Profile (NCP) is determined during installation. For Manual mode, the ipadm and dladm commands ...
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Published on June 1st, 2011no comments
The reason for this document was because all I could find through Google for mounting an ISO image on AIX was the following document. Using this method takes about an ...
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Published on May 25th, 2011no comments
I use the following basic procedure to create a Jumpstart boot image that I can use for various system maintenance purposes. The boot image is used solely to boot across ...
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Published on September 3rd, 2010no comments
It can be beneficial to view console messages over a serial port or even log in and make configuration changes over the console terminal window. This can be a confusing ...
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Published on September 3rd, 2010no comments
Issue At least as of Solaris 10 10/09 (Update 8), Solaris Flash Archive technology is not compatible with Solaris Zones, making systems with zones more difficult to clone and deploy. ...
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Published on September 1st, 2010no comments
Often times administrators must boot a Solaris from alternate media in single user mode (failsafe, cd/dvdrom, or network image) in order to make repairs to the installed OS. In this ...
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Published on September 1st, 2010no comments
This operation is not officially supported, so use it at your own risk. Often times administrators must boot a Solaris from alternate media in single user mode (failsafe, cd/dvdrom, or ...
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Published on September 1st, 2010no comments
$ ssh-keygen $ ssh-add -L | ssh username@server “umask 077; test -d .ssh||mkdir .ssh; cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys” Related Articles: Solaris Tips: Enable SVM while booted from alternate media One Liners: Set ...
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Published on September 1st, 2010no comments
The Solaris boot archive, introduced in Solaris 10 10/08 (update 6) on SPARC (it’s in the X86 version since the 1/06 release), is similar to the initrd in Linux. It ...
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Published on August 20th, 2010no comments
ZFS vs BtrFS This guide is not a discussion on which is better: ZFS or BtrFS (While many may argue that the fundamental design of BtrFS is superior, it is ...
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