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Name: harry Date: April 3, 2002 at 15:22:44 Pacific
Comment:
Hi I have installed 3com's NIC (3C905B-TX)in my Solaris8 (intel).I downloaded the driver from 3 com's site and saved it in a floppy while I was on Windows2000. But I got stuck while installing the same driver into Solaris8.Here is the scenario:
Name: Tharakesh Date: April 3, 2002 at 19:50:56 Pacific
Reply:
Boss you can't execute .exe files in solaris systems. You have to download other formated files like .tar, .tar.g, tar.g2....ets. have a good day.
Regrads, Tharakesh
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Response Number 2
Name: harry Date: April 3, 2002 at 20:41:35 Pacific
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Thanx Tarakesh But will u plz give me some hints about how I can execute this file which I already have in my floppy?????? Should I change the .exe to .tar or might be the way to get succeeded? hope to get early reply. thanx again
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Response Number 3
Name: PaulS Date: April 4, 2002 at 07:38:54 Pacific
Reply:
See the 04/04/02 post by Anu
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Response Number 4
Name: Tharakesh Date: April 5, 2002 at 22:02:14 Pacific
Reply:
Boss try to download drivers which has .tar, .tar.g or .g2. You can't use .exe file after renaming it. Have a good day
Regards, Tharakesh
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Response Number 5
Name: Dan Date: April 12, 2002 at 10:24:01 Pacific
Reply:
Actually you can run any file with any extension on it in UNIX the file extensions do not matter in UNIX. So Tharakesh, you are only partly right.
If the file is indeed a executable shell script or a app. that is executable in UNIX (you can find this out by typing:
#file {name of the file}
The all you probably need to do is put a ./ in front of the file name and make sure the permissions have made it executable also.
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