I installed a Solaris 11 system yesterday but needed to give it a static IP rather than the dhcp that it picked up by default. Since netoworking has changed in S11 here’s a guide of what to do. Firstly you need to disable nwam. Check that there are no nwamd process left running. To set [...]
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Setting a static IP address in Solaris 11
December 8, 2011
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Booting different boot environments on SPARC
June 8, 2011
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‘boot -L’ will give you the list of boot environments to boot from. So then you can just use the -Z option to boot the corresponding root fs. Handy when you screw up boot environment activation On x86 you can just select the be you want in grub.
Tonidoplug Power Supply failure
May 21, 2011
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I’ve been using my tonidoplug as a home NAS server for almost a couple of years now. It’s performed as well as can be expected for 2 mirrored 1.5TB disks attached on a USB hub. One evening recently though I noticed that it was unreachable. A quick look at the box showed that all was [...]
Using NAT with Zones
March 22, 2011
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This post originally appeared at http://blogs.sun.com/ford/entry/using_nat_in_the_global Since sun.com is going away soon (thank a bunch Oracle…) I’m going to mirror it here because I found it useful. Tuesday September 27, 2005 Using NAT in the Global Zone There have been requests to use IPFilter on Solaris 10 as a tool to allow use of networking [...]
Strange little NFS problem
September 22, 2010
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I came across a strange little networking problem earlier today. The client in question had needed to be rebooted earlier in the day. The server had had no changes made to it. The problem only started occurring after the reboot of the client. We had an NFS directory on the server that the client’s subnet [...]
Remote X displays
June 18, 2010
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Another ‘damn! I keep forgetting how to do that!’ post… When you want to display something from one unix box to another there are two ways of doing it. 1. Use ssh. You need to use ‘ssh -X’ specifically which will allow X11 forwarding. ssh takes care of setting the DISPLAY variable for you. You [...]
EFI and SUN Disk Labels
June 18, 2010
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Every now and again an install on a new machine fails for me and I have to google to remember how to change the label. So this time I’m writing it down! Docs.sun.com has some information on the differences between the two formats http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/disksconcepts-47761?l=en&a=view But suffice to say that you cant install Solaris on an [...]
Opensolaris users may be familiar with browsing repositories in firefox. To look through the latest Develpoment repo for example you just open up http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev in your browser. Things are a little more complicated for the extras and support repos though. Firstly you need to register to get access to these repos. Anyone can get access [...]
Interactive Jumpstart – asking for time
December 2, 2008
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I hit an interesting problem tonight with jumpstart. Or old timeserver has gone away and the jumpstart clients are now going into interactive installs asking for the user to set the time. We rely heavily on automated installs so this needed to be fixed. The solution was obvious I thought. I’ll just set up one [...]
