Monthly Archives: January 2009

Sun – Week Thirty

Week thirty! Wow, doesn’t seem so long when you say it like that…It’s been seven months! Monday started out quite slowly, we had out afternoon meeting in the morning to talk to one of our Australian friends, but he wasn’t … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Twentynine

This week was very VERY busy! Monday starts with me in the lab net booting a w1100z, this old box doesn’t output it’s BIOS over the serial cable, so a keyboard and screen was attached to allow me to net … Continue reading

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My new IBM Thinkpad X32 and wireless

Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32.  With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine.

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Create an OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveUSB

T’other day I won an IBM X32 on eBay (more on that tomorrow).  I want to install OpenSolaris on the laptop, but it doesn’t have an optical drive… I set about looking for a solution.  Unfortunatly, Googling around didn’t throw … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Twentyeight

This week took forever to finish! The week started off with a couple of light jobs. I replaced a fan in a V210 and racked up an engineers stable system (a V240). Tuesday was spent catching up on some work … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Twentyseven

This week started with snow! The whole week went with a bit of a blur. It started very slowly, but by Wednesday we were getting busier. I spent the latter part of the week playing with Starcats and domains (15K … Continue reading

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SNOW!

Today I woke up to snow! Every car in the street was covered, and were the streets, all in about a quarter of an inch of the stuff!  At 7:45 this morning, it was still pretty unspoilt on the way … Continue reading

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Static IP on OpenSolaris

From here: Clicky Make sure you have various DNS domains in /etc/resolv.conf, then: cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.BAK cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf svcadm restart dns/client After this, edit the file: /etc/nwam/llp

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File system frenzy

On my server, I’ve been looking into having various ZFS file systems, this would allow me to better manage parts of the system later on. I have so far set it all up as such:

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Installing GCC on OpenSolaris

Ok, I know I’ve blogged this before, but this is about doing it via the command line: I installed everything as root… # pkg install SUNWgcc Simple as that! Some other packages people might like: # pkg install SUNWgmake # … Continue reading

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