Summary: I have a SunBlade 150 running Solaris 9 using gnome 2.0, and I can't seem to mount a cdrom. I've tried manually mounting numerous cd that work on othe...
Summary: How many hard drives? EASY! root# format select the disk you want to look at or partition/format/or muck with. EXAMPLE: # format Searching for disks.....
Summary: drive standard is: cxdy[tz]sa where: cx is the controller number dy is the drive number tz is the scsi target number, and irrelevant on ATA/IDE contro...
Summary: Format the HDD and donot create any partition on it and then change the boot sequence of system to "cdrom a c" then start booting by first CD 1 of 2 ...
Summary: Hi all, another issue I was wondering about.. With Solstice, in the past, I have created concatenated stripes... easy enough, but I was wondering, is ...
Summary: Kevin, I know this may sound silly but are you actually trying to boot a Solaris OS CD? Bad Magic Number when trying to: boot cdrom -s Usually indicat...
Summary: I have a used sun ultra 5 workstation that I can't get to boot to solaris. I believe that the configuration is screwed up. I have no passwords so I am...
Summary: I'm installing secondary disk on my Ultra10. The error message is like "currupt label - wrong magic number". what is this? Somehow, I'm getting "Bad f...
Summary: Hi all, My question is on Disksuite 4.2.1/Solaris 8. The Disksuite installation creates a number of links under /dev/dsk/md and /dev/rdsk/md that all ...
Summary: Binary package from sunfreeware? it's a package datastream (if you open the unzipped package you'll see the magic number then the text "pAcKaGe DaTaS...
Summary: If you are trying to take /var off of your existing disk and completely move it to the new disk, you will need to do the following: format your new di...
Summary: I am having an issue getting Stop A to work on an Ultra 5 in order to install Solaris 8 from cd. I bought a used Ultra 5 and am unable get to the ok ...
Summary: Hi, Installed Ghostscript 8.14 and other required softwares, i got ps2gif convertor along with it, Now when i try to convert test.ps to test.gif, i am...
Summary: Hello, I have a Sun Ultra 5. I am posting because I am trying to install Debian Linux on it and it does not seem to want to boot from cdrom. When I t...
Summary: There is a stupid option about setting to always boot to hard driver and it was carelessly selected when Sun Solaris 10 was installed. So whenever "bo...
Summary: This problems with DVD writing on Solaris 10 x86 is a SCSI issue where the DVD-RW drive is IDE and has an IDE to SCSI bridge. Direct IDE writes to sa...
Summary: 1. Look up information about Windows NT on how a student can create a folder on drive C and map a drive to their partner’s computer 2. State your op...
Summary: I am trying to install Solaris 9 from the install CD onto a Ultra 10. Here is the background info: Used machine but new to me. I put two new IDE drive...
Summary: No. vxfs - veritas file system can be shirnked up to its capacity but it is always better to take backup - repartition and restore on new partition . ...
Summary: hi friends i have done dual boot between windows xp & Sun solaris 8 intel platform 1)Create primary partition on which u can install Win95/win98/winnt...
Summary: One possibility to get near this at very little cost is to use disk sets. In hardware you will need at least two SCSI chains strung between 2 sparcs. ...
Summary: I have a p2 350 with a tekram dc395x a scsi dvd and an ibm scsi disk. I succeed to boot solaris cd1 but I can't install the official tekram driver an...
Summary: Go to ok-prompt. 1.) set-defaults 2.) reset 3.)show-disks Shows this command the disk? Yes - select it. Try to install Solaris, if this fail boot from...
Summary: I have the same prob. Look in the Solaris Documentation CD in the Device Configuration Guide, search for LNE100TX. There are only certain Part #s and ...