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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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 [...]
