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Forum: Solaris 12-28-2012
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Thanks for the help! I have thought about the...
Thanks for the help! I have thought about the boot block maybe not being installed on the second drive. I thought with mirroring the boot block would be on the second drive because after all the root...
Forum: Solaris 12-21-2012
8,139
Posted By bluridge
System is stuck at the OK prompt
Here is a little background. We have a V240 server that has two disks mirrored (out of 4 disks) and one of the disk complained when booting up. The system complained with /etc/inittab file is...
Forum: Cybersecurity 10-26-2009
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Posted By bluridge
unspawn, If you have nothing to post, please...
unspawn,

If you have nothing to post, please do not clutter my post up.
"does not work" on my server means simply this command does not produce anything. No error message here too.

I...
Forum: Cybersecurity 10-21-2009
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Posted By bluridge
expiration of SSL Certificates
Does anyone know how to extract the expiration date of a Solaris 9 certificate? I have searched over the 'net and it seems this command ssl-cert-check comes up often but this does not work on my...
Forum: Solaris 07-29-2009
5,530
Posted By bluridge
output is
ascii text

Duke...I know this is a easy problem but I always get confused with setting up display/term from a remote box when serial connecting to a SUN server.
Forum: Solaris 07-29-2009
5,530
Posted By bluridge
vi editor garbled file
I am trying to edit a file and when I vi the file, I get rolling lines and garbled messages. So much that I did not want to edit the file for fear of screwing up the file.

I am logged in a Sun Box...
Forum: Solaris 07-29-2009
4,781
Posted By bluridge
go for the cert
King,

I have a Sol9 certification. But I have been a SysAdmin for more than 10 years and on a few flavors of Unix systems most notably HPUX 11.0 and Solaris 8/9 and some 10.

IMO getting...
Forum: Solaris 07-13-2009
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Posted By bluridge
video cards
Duke,

Thanks for replying. I got tracked to other stuff and now am back. I agree with you there are easier ways to take care of this...but it would be easier to have a video card set up so we can...
Forum: Solaris 06-30-2009
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Posted By bluridge
Solstice Disk Suite
I am doing disk mirroring and this command I entered:

metainit d202 1 1 c0t1d0s0

gives me this error "metainit: d202: no such file or directory"

The nmd value in /kernel/drv/md.conf is set...
Forum: Solaris 06-17-2009
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Posted By bluridge
video card for a V440
I am looking into getting some cards for the SunFire V440. Not sure how most folks go about this but I am assuming we can find compatible cards for this server platform without going through SUN. Do...
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
largest is 72g
If the largest support disk is 72G, then I think there is something going on because I build the system on the root disk and the disk shows something like 133g or maybe 134g. This system used to be...
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
OBP is 4.5
OBP is 4.5 and I did the probe-scsi-all and I see two Segate disks show up so obviously the system is seeing the disk. I just executed devfsadm and I have the same symptoms when I do a format: drive...
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
reboot? yes
Yes, I've rebooted the box after doing the touch /reconfigure. I believe the disk is either a 133G or 146G...hard to find the information on the face of the disk. I will have to check out what the...
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
What hardware?
Hi Duke,

This is a SunFire 280R box and the disk is a Segate disk...and I believe it came from another Sun box but cannot be too sure. Someone has given me this. The thing is this is the same...
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
have you tried the cfgadm?
earlysame55,

Have you tried the cfgadm command? I tried the last suggestion you made, cfgadm -c configure cxtxdx and apparently the syntax is wrong as spits out the other options I need to add....
Forum: Solaris 10-27-2008
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Posted By bluridge
install new disk
I am attempting to install a new internal disk. System is running Solaris 9/05.
I did a touch /reconfigure and see the disk when I type format command. But the cxtxdx disk shows "drive not...
Forum: Solaris 08-20-2008
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Posted By bluridge
incredule answer
incredible, your answer is incredible enough. :D

I went ahead and tried the pkgrm SUNWmozilla and the system came back with:

#Removing installed package instance <SUNWmozilla>
#Verifying...
Forum: Solaris 08-20-2008
9,749
Posted By bluridge
responding to frankoko
No...I did not execute the pkgadd to those package, but I bet the mozinstall script used pkgadd to install the packages that are SUNWxxx. When this mozinstall script was executed, it created a dir...
Forum: Solaris 08-18-2008
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Posted By bluridge
still other questions
Thanks for your help.

When I unzipped the file in a directory I created, the unzip produced a couple of check scripts and mozinstall, and 13 SUN packages starting with SUNxxx.

My concern is if...
Forum: Solaris 08-18-2008
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Posted By bluridge
Mozilla, how to remove
I got this Mozilla and unzipped the package and installed on my server. Now I am told that this was a mistake and need to remove Mozilla. I know I can remove Mozilla with pkgrm but this unzipped file...
Forum: Solaris 07-23-2008
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Posted By bluridge
don't think dvd is recognized?
I did what you said and the probe-scsi-all brings up nothing? But when I am in the console, and do a cdrw -l it shows the DVD drive.

I have just resorted to copying down the Solaris Sparc CD...
Forum: Solaris 07-23-2008
15,728
Posted By bluridge
boot /path/to/device not working
Duke,

Do do you know from the info I gave you that it is indeed an scsi device?

I am unable to do the probe-scsi-all command at the ok prompt, get the error message like "This command may hand...
Forum: Solaris 07-22-2008
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Posted By bluridge
kind of drive this is
When I am connected to the box via the tip hardwire, I execute cdrw -l and it shows

/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 at Node
LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P65 PSOB at Connected Device
CD Reader/Writer = Device Type
...
Forum: Solaris 07-22-2008
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Posted By bluridge
of course it would be easier, but this is a classified setting
So gotta use what is given to me. Come on impart your knowledge!

I know it is possible to boot at the ok prompt and be booting from the external DVD...just don't know how.

Hope someone can...
Forum: Solaris 07-22-2008
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Posted By bluridge
questions on how to install Solaris 10 via DVD/RW external device
Whoa...glad to see this forum si up and running, as a few weeks ago I tried to check in and found it directing me somewhere else and felt maybe this board was being hijacked or someone was closing...
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