I was happy to enter the LU experience. I have a new harddisk with the follwing slices: number Cyl 0 1048-6269 1 swap 3-1047 2 0-38909 3 6270-11491 4...
Installation puts the swap slice at the beginning of the disk. Is this really still needed with modern disks? SXDE did put the root slice in front. But with...
... How large must swap be? Google says not more than you have ram, others still double it? I have 4G memory in the machine. ... One concideration that many...
I will rearrange the slices on my new disk to a better layout than my former disk had. So, I want (0) root, (1) swap, (7) /export I will have /var /opt and...
I mentioned this over on the OpenSolaris.org indiana-discuss site, but though I'd put a tag here as well. Consumers of Solaris and OpenSolaris have suffered...
Hi all, It's not perfect, but I've got a realative solution to my issues with installing LU when the system is mirrored on two identical disks. Basically, the...
I can use some help. I have bought another harddisk. I want to make this my new system drive *with* LU. So what I'll have to do is: -format/fdisk the enw drive...
The default audio chip on my motherboard is flaky. I added another sound card that some applications (like rhythmbox) can use but others (like FireFox) cannot,...
Hi, We got a U20 M2 box with an external tape DAT72 SCSI. The box is running Solaris 10U5 and has an internal HBA LSI 22320SLE. The machine does not boot if I...
We are looking for system administrators, hardware engineers, and IT staff/management who are responsible for researching and recommending servers or storage...
I have a scad of Dell 390s available to load Solaris 10 x86 on, but Solaris 10 (u4 or u5) does not work with its Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 GigE NIC. I gave up...
Hi all, Talking about patches, in the flurry of more or less useful patches coming those days, I notice this one this morning, 136700-01. From the README, it...
I'm going to isntall an new hardrive and will take the opportunity to create a LU partition. My old solaris 10 has not. So, after transferring the system with...
Hello, Does anybody happen to know if there is a document describing what are the Sun Studio equivalent of the various GCC flags? For example, is there an...
I have a system that is in need of a facelift. Any recommendations for a PCE SATA adapter that works. In looking around it doesn't seem that the Siig (Initio...
Can anyone recommend a PCI-X SAS controller for Solaris X86? I'm considering the Adaptec 58300 but can't determine if it is supported. I see that S10 has...
Anybody can point me to a good doc about Solaris x64 netinstall for nvx_85 or newer. I have a boot server and install server set up (I followed up the setup...
For this month's meeting we have a change of venue, just across the road from the Santa Clara Auditorium, we will be meeting in SCA07, known as the Mansion....
Hi, Has anyone else been having problems with the flash 9 plugin and firefox 2.0.0.14? I find that visiting news.bbc.co.uk can result in firefox hanging and I ...
I have a notebook with 2 hard drives triple booting XP, Solaris 10U5 (used to be S10U4), and Nevada (snv_86). XP is on the 1st (boot disk) and I use System...
