I installed Solaris 10 x86 on a HP server, all OK showing on graphic screen.
However it never automatically mount cdrom on boot and one our apps needs to auto-mount the app cdrom on boot to complete the installation.
Please help.
ALso I connected to this HP server's COM1 with a null-modem cable from my monitoring PC/laptop. How to enable COM1 login on Solaris (I search online and the information is quite lengthy and here / there).
- My null-modem cable and teraterm settings are OK as I used to get console message when once I chose Output to TTYA on Solaris 10 installation.
I was trying to move a file to a particular directory. In a hurry i forgot to give the dest directory, as below
mv prod.log
The file disappeared. :confused:
Any idea where it might have moved???
And I have tried moving files based on date from one directory to another as below.... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone,
I would like to know how to compile and run lex programs on solaris 10.
the conventional way is
$ lex <name.l>
$ cc lex.yy.c -ll
$ ./a.out
but while trying to execute the 2nd command :i get a reference saying that the command is old or that main is not supported...
Hence... (1 Reply)
OK! I am a newbie so please give me step by step details on what i need to do! :confused: I don't know what a stop key is. I think it is the one that looks like a spade. I don't know. :eek: Let me know what to do and I will be so grateful! :) The system is a Sun Fire system not an Intel system.
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when try to unzip a very big file facing an error of disk full.
can any body help me to unzip this file .
$ unzip abc.zip
Archive: abc.zip
inflating: abc.zrp
abc.zip write error (disk full?). Continue? (y/n/^C) $ n
Thanks & Regards (1 Reply)
Hi All,
When i run date command at unix prompt,
i get the output in format Tue Aug 29 12:36:18 GMT 2006
when i write the shell script i should be able to export the date output with format as YYYY/MM/DD-HH:MM:SS into some variable(ex : dateop).
and when i say echo ${dateop}
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I can no longer print from HP-UX 10. All the printers are network printers. I have already stopped and restarted the spooler (lpshut and lpsched), but still the same problem. The printers react when I ping them.
I have also tried with SAM, but the system cannot find the printers.
Can somebody... (1 Reply)
Hi everybody I have a problem with wtmpx. Accounting file. I activated it. It works but to well :( Writes the same message every minute. "faxmodem" As you can see it does not take to long until my /var file is soon full.
Thanks
Peter (26 Replies)
pfinstall(1M) System Administration Commands pfinstall(1M)NAME
pfinstall - tests installation profiles
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -D | -d disk_config [ -c CDpath] profile
DESCRIPTION
After you create a profile, you can use the pfinstall command to test the profile and see if it does what you want before using it to
install or upgrade a system. pfinstall enables you to test a profile against:
o The system's disk configuration where pfinstall is being run.
o Other disks by using a disk configuration file that represents a structure of a disk. See NOTES on how to create a disk configuration
file.
To successfully and accurately test a profile for a particular Solaris release, you must test a profile within the Solaris environment of
the same release. For example, if you want to test a profile for Solaris 2.6, you have to run the pfinstall command on a system running
Solaris 2.6.
So, on a system running Solaris 2.6, you can test Solaris 2.6 initial installation profiles. However, if you want to test a Solaris 2.6
upgrade profile on a system running a previous version of Solaris, or if you don't have a Solaris 2.6 system installed yet to test Solaris
2.6 initial installation profiles, you have to boot a system from a Solaris 2.6 CD image and temporarily create a Solaris 2.6 install envi-
ronment. Then, you can run pfinstall in the Solaris 2.6 install environment to test your profiles.
To create a temporary Solaris 2.6 install environment, boot a system from a Solaris 2.6 CD image (just as you would to install), answer any
system identification questions, choose the Solaris Interactive Installation program, and exit out of the first screen that is presented.
Then, from the shell, you can execute the pfinstall command.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c CDpath The path to the Solaris 2 installation image. This is required if the image is not mounted on /cdrom. (For example, use
this option if you copied the installation image to disk or mounted the CD-ROM on a directory other than /cdrom.)
-d disk_config pfinstall uses a disk configuration file, disk_config, to test the profile. See NOTES on how to create a disk configuration
file. You must specify either this option or the -D option to test the profile (see WARNINGS). This option cannot be used
with an upgrade profile (install_type upgrade). You must always test an upgrade profile against a system's disk configura-
tion ( -D option).
-D pfinstall uses the system's disk configuration to test the profile. You must specify either this option or the -d option to
test the profile (see WARNINGS).
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
profile The file name of the profile to test. If profile is not in the directory where pfinstall is being run, you must specify the
path.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Testing an Upgrade Profile
The following example tests an upgrade profile, upgrade.prof, on a system with a previous version of the Solaris software installed.
1. Boot the system to be upgraded from the Solaris image chosen for the upgrade, just as you would to install. The image can be located in
the system's local CD-ROM or on an install server.
2. Answer the system configuration questions, if prompted.
3. If you are presented with a choice of installation options, choose the Solaris Interactive Installation program.
4. Exit from the first screen of the Solaris Interactive Installation program.
After the Solaris Interactive Installation program exits, a shell prompt is displayed.
5. Create a temporary mount point:
example# mkdir /tmp/mnt
6. Mount the directory that contains the profile(s) you want to test.
If you want to mount a remote NFS file system (for systems on the network), enter:
mount -F nfs server_name:path /tmp/mnt
If you want to mount a UFS-formatted diskette, enter:
mount -F ufs /dev/diskette /tmp/mnt
If you want to mount a PCFS-formatted diskette, enter:
mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /tmp/mnt
7. Change directory to /tmp/mnt where the profile resides:
example# cd /tmp/mnt
8. Test the upgrade.prof profile:
/usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -D upgrade.prof
Example 2: Testing the basic.prof Profile
The following example tests the basic.prof profile against the disk configuration on a Solaris 2.6 system where pfinstall is being run. The
path to the Solaris CD image is specified because Volume Management is being used.
example# /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -D -c /cdrom/cdrom0/s0 basic.prof
Example 3: Testing the basic.prof Profile
The following example tests the basic.prof profile against the 535_test disk configuration file. This example uses a Solaris CD image
located in the /export/install directory, and pfinstall is being run on a Solaris 2.6 system.
example# /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -d 535_test
-c /export/install basic.prof
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful (system rebooted).
1 Successful (system not rebooted).
2 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWinst |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO fdisk(1M), prtvtoc(1M), attributes(5)
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations
WARNINGS
If the -d or -D option is not specified, pfinstall may perform an actual installation on the system by using the specified profile, and the
data on the system may be overwritten.
NOTES
You have to test a profile on a system with the same platform type for which the profile was created.
SPARC
To create a disk configuration file (-d option) for a SPARC based system:
1. Locate a SPARC based system with a disk that you want to test.
2. Create a disk configuration file by redirecting the output of the prtvtoc(1M) command to a file.
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 > 535_disk
3. (Optional.) Concatenate disk configuration files into a single file to test a profile against multiple disks. The target numbers in
the disk device names must be unique.
example# cat 535_disk 1G_disk > mult_disks
x86
To create a disk configuration file (-d option) for an x86 based system:
1. Locate an x86 based system with a disk that you want to test.
2.
Create part of the disk configuration file by saving the output of the fdisk(1M) command to a file:
example# fdisk -R -W 535_disk /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0p0
3. Append the output of the prtvtoc(1M) command to the disk configuration file.
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 >> 535_disk
4. (Optional.) Concatenate disk configuration files into a single file to test a profile against multiple disks. The target numbers in
the disk device names must be unique.
example# cat 535_disk 1G_disk > mult_disks
To test a profile with a specific system memory size, set SYS_MEMSIZE to the specific memory size (in Mbytes) before running pfinstall:
example# SYS_MEMSIZE=memory_size
example# export SYS_MEMSIZE
SunOS 5.10 28 Jan 2003 pfinstall(1M)