Recent content by DamianDelCampo

Thanks muchly for your educational replies. Damian

Thanks a lot for the replies. Nonsensical reason -> I actually have a wireless gw/router. This Server uses a wireless ethernet bridge on eth0 to access gw/router. The client PC to be connected to eth1 will be a dual boot Linux/Solaris pc which will only be able to access the network through the...

Hi, I've just installed RH9 on a dual NIC Server and am trying to work out network configuration after installation. This is a home network I'm setting up for learning purposes & hypothetical questioning such as this as I try to understand how to parameters affect behaviour. I have 2 interfaces...

Thanks for the comments, I have avoided using FAT32 for a number of reasons. 1) The main reason being that I recall FAT32 was not a recomended file system to use for NFS. 2) Disk usage / performance wise I thought FAT32 was a worst possible option. At this stage I think I'm gonna go with UFS as...

Hi, I have a PC setup to run both Solaris and Linux in a dual boot situation, which I've done for training and education purposes mainly.. Predominantl I would run Solaris but occassionally would like to boot into Linux for various tasks. I want to have a "non system" storage drive that is...

Hi, I am trying to configure a wireless LAN adapter for an x86 system. The card is a Netgear PCI 54Mbps WG311. I haven't been able to find any wireless card for Solaris type of projects. How can WLan cards be used on Solaris? Are the Linux packages used instead?? Alternativly I also have...

Thanks, this was my thinking from previous experience of Sun downloads ie Studio ONE, Star Office etc. I was looking for a more definte idea though, because if I'm not going to be able to install Solaris on a quad CPU, I need to either 1) buy a fast single (p4 2-3Ghz) cpu machine and use...

I'm an IT professional with past Unix experience looking to move from Windows Support roles into Unix Systems Admin roles. As a hands on, experimental and educational system I was going to buy myself a cheap older 2/4 Xeon cpu system and running the free x86 Solaris 9 on it. The free license...