Recent content by DedeMole

Um thanks KenCunningham and coffeysm.... And yes he is back to the windows team, unfortuantaly he was suppose to have been my UNIX expert and I barely know how to setup a RAID5 myself. I'm not sure what software was used to setup the orginial disks. OK-- the boot drive was not mirrored. If...

I have a V880 server running solaris8, with 12 36Gb hardrives... We just recieved all new 72 gb hardrives. My assistant thought that if he just brought down the server and put in the new disks everything would work (he was very wrong).... So then in a panic he just replace the OS harddrive...

Flash17, Thanks for the info this is useful. I am being pushed to get the inexpensive USB hdd, and was worried they might not work. So this puts my mind at ease. Again thanks this is what I was hoping for.

Hello all smart ones, I have been tasked with adding more HD space to a SUN BLADE 2000 workstation. Can I buy just any external HD for this, with any size?? And if so what might be some of the gotcha's I need to keep an eye out for. Any help is greatly appreciated....

Hi all experts, I have a SUN BLADE 150 with Solaris 8 loaded. I am trying to install a Pioneer DVD/CD writer (DVR-AO6U) onto my system. I took out the CD reader that came installed on the system and just replaced it with the Pioneer. Everything seems to work. i can read and copy from CD's...

Tuka, THANKS that helped..... I found it.... it was /dev/rmt/2.. I now can do backups.... thanks again for the help....

Ken, I have rebooted since adding on the Autoloader, and I did the reboot with the -r. I don't know what to run to see what the device thing is, or if the system has excepted the new equipment. I will look at the man pages for devconfig and see what that is... Thanks for the idea, at least...

Hi all, Need some simple help please. I have a dlt tape autoloader hooked to my Solaris 8 V880 server. I am trying to backup some files off the server onto the DLT tapes. I was going to just use the TAR command. BUT I can't figure out what the autoloaders device name is.... I was trying to...

THANKS!!!! That is what I thought but I just didn't trust myself....

I am trying to download patches for my Unix Solaris 8 system. But I don't know which one to download. Should I download the Solaris 8 or the Solaris 8 x86? And what is the difference??

Franz, OK I'll work on my ufsdump of the system now so that when I can "rebuild" the system I'm good. THANKS for the code help, I really needed it. If a RAID5 is not recommended for my 9 drives what is? I originally was going to just mount all 9 drives to the same partition (/data) but I was...

Franz, I like your final solution to create new larger filesystem. I won't be able to do that until after Easter. Anyway will I need some tapes to do the ufsdump? I have a DLT tape drive (not sure how to use it yet) and a 8mm tape drive would these work??? Or is there another way to do the...

daFranze, THANKS!!! and yes I'm a idiot so all commands you give me are great. I have a follow-on question to before. What if I want to partition the new drive to add more room to my / and /usr/openwin and /var along with making the new partition /backup-data is that possible? And do I really...

I have V880 server with 10 disks installed and working. Disk0 is the OS and the other disks are RAID5 together. I have a new disk to add and I want it to be part of the OS and not the RAID. The new disk is exatly the same as all the other disks. And I'm using Solaris 8. How do I add Disk 11...

I installed Star Office onto my Solaris 8 machine.... I was root when I did this... When I log on as root I see the star office icon on the workspace and it works, BUT when I log on as a user I don't see the star office icon... Where or what do I need to do so that the users can see and use...