Recent content by angelo23

Franz, Thanks for your input....

Hi All, Im getting ready to attempt to do an upgrade from solaris 2.6 to solaris 9... Does anybody have any detail intructions to perform this upgrade... Looking for some line to line instructions... Also looking for some pre upgrade tips to be performed if any before I try to upgrade to...

Marrow - yes i have solaris 8 software available...I didm't see it asking me anything when I booted up on CDROM before trying to upgrade... The reason I was trying to upgrade instead of install was to preserve my data.... If I do a straight install won't it wipe out my file systems and...

Thanks marrow for your reply, I 'm not totally sure why it failed... I have rebooted since trying to upgrade and it still reflex the Solaris 2.6 and not 9... I'm going to see what the other log files from the upgrade states... Maybe I can see why it failed from there... Angelo

I just try upgrading a Sun Sparcserver 20(test server) from solaris 2.6 to Solaris 9.... Everything went smoothly as far as I can see... I let the install run over night and when I came in the dialog box had stated "Upgrade Failed"... I'm not totally sure what to do with this "UPGRADE_CLEANUP...

Hello, I need to Delete a single file off of one of my DLT Ufsdump tapes.... Is this possible...?? The file had to be removed from our systems because security issues... But the file still remains on my ufsdump tapes.... I didn't want to have to Erase the entire Tape if I didn't have to...

Hello, I'm going to throw this out to this forum as I'm trying to do something I have never done before but I'm sure it can be done with Sun Solaris (unix)..So Please help me out with this if you have any better solutions or suggestions... Me and my co worker are stuck working with some old...

Why is it that when I open the Solaris Management Console on my server, that Left Panel where is reads "This Computer"... Mine reads as "This Computer (0.0.0.0)".... Why doesn't it give me my server Name(EAGLE) or correct IP address??.... What file(s) do i need to edit to correct this...

Hello, Need some assistance if possible...I do aplogize for the length of this question.. I just wanted to include everything.... We have an old Sparserver 20 running Solaris 2.6.... The server boots up and all file systems are mounted as normal.... But when it boots up I see the following...

Hello All, Thanks for all the suggestions / comments.... I did run fsck again and again and also rebooted... Every now and then when running fsck on root filesystem (/) and on /usr I seem to get the message "File System State in Superblock is Wrong: fix it"... I always answer "Yes" and run...

Hello, Need some assistance to error messages that keep poping up in the /var/adm/messages and the console.... Been getting the following messages.... ------------------------------------------------------ Sep 18 16:00:00 a12 unix: WARNING...

Hello, I intalled Solaris 8 on a test server I have and named the server "eagle".... We have another server running solaris 6 which is in production and its name is "galaxy" I'm try to use the rcp copy command to copy some personal files to the new Solaris 8 server "eagle"... I keep getting...

Hello, I'm trying to add an additional drive to an old sparc20 server that we have here up and running solaris 7.... I attached it to the controler card on the top row of the back of the sparc20...I didn't want to include it in the daisy chain of other drives... For some reason when I boot up...

Hey Oreis, Thanks again for replying to my problem and trying to help... In regard to the VOLUME that has the utility state of "Started Degraded"... Not to sure what you mean when you say that I might be at the limit for the number of disks for that raid5 drive to continue to operate..?? Are...

No BAD disk in the Array.... We are using RAID 5...