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Thanks for clarifying that...

OK, I can boot off either disk but I am not real sure that when I boot off the mirror, I am actually booting off that mirror.

The reason I am saying this, when I look at output of df in either...

Well, I think I should be able to boot off the mirror disk without removing the primary disk, after all, I can do that with Windows XP, which is the 3rd disk in the system.
But I did try that anyway...

The x86 version of installboot is called installgrub:



#: /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/${MIR_DISK}s0
stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 16065)...

Solaris 10 5/08 on Ultra 40 M2

It boots fine off primary disk but having issues booting off the mirror disk.
I get this error when booting off mirror disk:


Booting 'Solaris 10 ... Mirror...

I am looking to buy W2100z workstation. I want to run solaris 10 on it.
I realize it's a few years old, from 2004.

Is it a good machine to get or should I look for a newer workstation?

what version of ssh are you running? ssh2 or OpenSSH?

There shouldn't be a restriction on root. Can you ssh as a non root user?

Does it prompt you for a password? Try running ssh -v -v -v

...

I am interested in books with good coverage of Solaris 8 or 9, maybe 10 (is 10 widely deployed in production yet)


I've been doing unix admin for a while but on other platforms. I've noticed...

ioscan shows device files ( for example /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 - disk to be added to the Logical Volume Group ) - while I do not see these commands show device files, just general info. Or does Solaris not...

http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/resources/Solaris_hardening4.html

Hardening Solaris with Jass

This article presents a concise step-by-step approach to securely installing Solaris for...

1) on the machine you are connecting from:

ssh-keygen -t dsa
hit enter and enter when it asks you for a password

2) cd $HOME/.ssh

3) scp id_dsa.pub...

What's the dominant Unix in production environment?

Solaris or Linux?

HP-UX and AIX have never been "dominant", while HP-UX is widely used in financial circles... Is Linux reallly where it's...

What is the Solaris equivalent of the HP-UX "ioscan -funC" command which lists all hardware on the system?

I installed RH8 on Thinkpad R51. The install went smooth, but when I tried to boot, it hanged at:


PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on Pci bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, ID=24ca
PCI: Device...

I got a regular user to work with rsh... I think it was a DNS problem where an IP address was not resolving.

I cannot get root to rsh no matter what I do, even if I put "+" in /.rhosts file.
...

for a specific issue, check out:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=117

Yes, the /root/.rhosts file is there.

I tried going there as root and as a regular user (which too has the .rhosts file) and in both cases, get "Permission denied".

My rhosts file on the...

Strange. The following worked a few times but then stopped. It only worked as a regular user, but not as root.

rsh <target_IP> -l <login> <command>

Nothing seems to have changed.......

I am using rsh and other R commands to login to a machine.
On that target machine, I set up $HOME/.rhosts file with the host/password.
I also setup /etc/hosts.equiv fiel with IP...