Recent content by octorian

You need to go to the Nonvol menu (7), and pick the option for "serial mode". This will switch between application mode and fcli mode. Also, I recommend you check out my info page here to answer more questions: http://www.hecomputing.org/storage/clariion-fc

I know at least from experience on SPARC, that any and all "licensing" with Solaris itself (not add-on software) is purely on paper. There are no license files of any kind, and the ISOs you can download from Sun's website will run on any machine it is supported on (regardless of CPU count).

Yes, as I said, there really is no need for local graphics on a server. That's what remote-X is for, as you mentioned with Exceed. This isn't the Windows world, and we can run our graphical applications (note that I said "apps", not "entire desktops", though that is also possible) remotely...

I guess you could blame it on Rich Teer's attitude, from comp.sys.sun.* as rubbing off on me ;) (though I still take him with a bit of a grain of salt)

Achem... The Sun Fire 280R is a server, not a workstation. It does not actually need a monitor, let alone a graphics card. The proper way to manage these machines is through a serial console, over the serial port. You can then get a serial console server box, to which you can remotely...

You can swap out the flash more easily, and it is considered a user-configurable part of the system. Thus, it can also become corrupted. If you think in PeeCee terms, the "bootflash" would be the chip the "BIOS" is stored on, and the "flash" would be the hard drive that the "operating system"...

For starters, setting a machine up on a network involves configuring a number of things: - hostname & IP address - Netmask - Default gateway - Naming services (i.e. DNS) Are you sure of which ones of these you have and have not done? For a brief overview of the Solaris way: system hostname...

On Solaris, root's default home directory is just "/", so you would put it in "/.bashrc". If it doesn't exist, then create it. -Derek

I'm not sure exactly what the procedure is, but that reminds me of something... The instructions for creating a RAID-1 mirror involved making two one-disk RAID-0 metadevices and then mirroring them. My guess is that you could make multi-drive RAID-0 stripes and then mirror those. However that...

And since the CPU on an Ultra 1 was soldered to the motherboard, last I checked, I guess that means effectively a whole new machine is in order (or a new system board, which is probably harder to get a hold of than a new box).

Yes, personally I like the CLI as well. Though even that could be improved a lot, but it would break the consistency with everything else.

Actually, that makes a lot of sense, making the interface so a novice cannot use it. You see, if you make a product so any idiot can admin it, any idiot will admin it. Just look at Windows for a case example. When dealing with important infrastructure stuff, you really want someone who knows...

I think you're getting machines confused... The Ultra 10 CPUs were UltraSPARC-IIi's, and came in speeds of 300, 333, and 440MHz. If you mean an Ultra 1, then 143MHz sounds plausible. In any case, I think I've heard that the Ultra 1 might run hot, so make sure the cooling is good. Otherwise...

Naming your machine after a routing protocol, eh? In any case, from those messages I'd guess your CPU has bad cache. Out of curiosity, what sort of CPU module is this? (I know there were known issues with the cache on some models of the UltraSparc-II modules in the bigger enterprise servers a...

If you want to see what I/O cards and devices are officially compatable, look here: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/ihvindex.html 3Com cards won't work with Solaris/SPARC. You probably need a Sun card, or one from a vendor that supports Solaris/SPARC.