1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to know how to make a boot disk to get Solaris 7 to load on a intel machine. I have checked out Sun.Com, but did not understand how to download and convert the files to a disk. any help would be appericated thanks Bobby (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all, I'm trying to recover from backup file to a new system with a new disk. I'm able to partition my new hard drive the same way as my old drive, but I'm unable to boot off of it. I have set the fdisk to toogle as a boot flag. But it does not seem to be working. Does anyone know how to... (4 Replies)

3. HP-UX

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to change the disk device files ex. /dev/dsk/cxtxd0 ? What I have are two HPUX 11.0 servers using MC Service Guard 11.13. A consultant attached a SAN and both servers had created the same identical LUN device files. Now I could begin creating my volume... (0 Replies)

4. Solaris

The second disk that I'm trying to make bootable is to hold another version of Solaris (9). I've created the partitions with format and labeled the disk - created the filesystems with newfs - created and mounted the directories. ...but I think I've missed something out like using fdisk to... (16 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All: I am using an adaptor between a 1TB SATA hard drive and solaris 8 box with 68 pin scsi. I use the format utility to partition the HD which works fine but when I use newfs, I get some errors. I will place them below. I have blocked and the error message is in red. Anybody got any... (1 Reply)

6. Solaris

hi I am working with sun solaris 9 and I have 40 GB hard disk and I want to recreate the partition. 1)how can I recreate the partition?? 2) how can I take the back-up of my application so that I will not loose the data.. (2 Replies)

7. Solaris

I attached a README file that I will refer to. I successfully completed everything in the README file until step 4. # pwd /gani/gani-2.4.4 # ls COPYING Makefile.macros gem.c Makefile Makefile.sparc_gcc gem.h Makefile.amd64_gcc ... (1 Reply)

8. SCO

Dear All, I have a standalone desktop with SCO Openserver V 5, this is used to control a machine with custom written software. The problem is that the machine manufacturer has closed shop (bankruptcy) and there is no support on software. As a precaution I would want to make a complete backup of... (3 Replies)

9. Ubuntu

hi all: as we know , when usb flash disk plug in and aotu mounted , the default permission of the usb flash disk is 700. that means others have no permission . the question: how to make others have read/write permission when the aotu mounted usb flash disk pluge in ? thanks !! (0 Replies)

10. Red Hat

Hello, 1 ) Fdisk -l # Displays all the disk with partition table information My Query ) A ) How can i make one disk ex: /dev/sdd not visible in fdisk -l output ? B) From where fdisk -l collect and display the information ? (8 Replies)