1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have just recently installed solaris8 on my box, and got two minor problems: Based on the size of partitions i should have approx 10gigs of mem., but the system registeres 0 space available on my harddrive....That problem results in a slight inability to install any apps... The second problem is... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have downloaded 3 zipped solaris ver 8 07/01 installation cd and i want to ask this question: 1. what will i do to burn it? do i need to extract the file and then burn it? what? Note: Those zipped files have only one file each and it has more than 100mb plus. (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, Posting first time-really liked the site..but may be this has been asked before also-can someone tell me or may be give me the link what exactly I need to download from Sun inorder to learn the Solaris8 operating system. I have the books but still would like to see the environment and... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,I have a problme when log on Solaris 8 ,screen show"DT information system do not startup".what's this.how to do it? thankx. (3 Replies)

5. Solaris

Dear Experts I am new in Solaris administration. I have installed Solaris8. The workstation IP address is configured and I know the gateway. When I launch netscape it shows error and asks for SOCKS variable and I can not connect to internet. I don't know what should I do. I am able to ping the... (0 Replies)

6. Solaris

What is the max file system that I can create. Is the max 2TB? I trying to connect a iscsi device and Solaris can only see 999 GB. Do I have to change sector size? (2 Replies)

7. Solaris

How can i know service status and its dependencies in solaris 8,9? Thanks in advance.. (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

question: why is that when I created a user under solaris8, i got two lines before the login.. sample: login as: user1 user1@1.1.1.1's password: Last login: Fri Feb 25 17:00:52 2011 from 12.0.0.5 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000 Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS... (0 Replies)

9. Solaris

hello, i am trying to compile wxWidgets on a Solaris8 box, but get this message: checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes checking for mspack.h... no checking for X... no configure: error: X11 not found, please use --x-includes and/or --x-libraries options (see config.log for... (0 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Unfortunately, we still have Solaris 8 to support and it does not support df -h so I am stucked with having to use df -k. UNIX shell is ksh. Example of df -k run is below: $ df -k /db/test01 | awk '{ print }' Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on... (2 Replies)