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A Couple Old Laptops...
22 March, 2008, 07:08 am
I got a couple new (old) laptops and have installed Solaris on them.
One is an Acer Travel Mate C300 Tablet PC with a 4gb hard drive and 512mb of RAM. This is my first experience with the CORE install of Solaris 10 (11/06, Retail DVD). I also installed the SUNWdt* packages from the DVD so I can use CDE via VNC.
The other isn't really old, its a Dell Latitude D610 (Solaris Certified) which has been installed with Open Solaris build 74. Anyway, something in the install didn't set up DNS as my resolving method and I can ping but get no www. lovin! I knew that /etc/resolv.conf held the names of the DNS servers, so I edited that...but to no avail.
To make DNS resolution work, I had to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. This configuration file controls a variety of lookup types with several services including DNS.
Just read down through the file, its actually commented. You'll see you need to add DNS to the Hosts: line to get Solaris to query your DNS server for name resolution!
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SunPCI Lives!
18 June, 2007, 07:32 pm
It works!
I used the instructions from this site:
http://www.recursivegreen.com/howtos/sunpci.html
Cached copy here at the same url. One thing for Open Solaris to note, the drivers can not be named .210 (that's Solaris 10) instead name them .2110 and bingo they rock.
Another good tip is to use the built in VNC viewer which comes with the SUNWspci2 package. Simply edit /etc/Master.ini and add the following info to the bottom of the file:
[vnc]
CmdLineArgs=-geometry "1024x768" -depth 24
DisplayNum=10
StartupScript=/opt/SUNWspci2/bin/VNCStartup
UID=root ;User ID
GID=root ;Group ID
HomeDir=/root ;Home directory
AutoStart=Enabled
Edit to suit your taste of course. The picture to the right is my SunPCI ii Penguin 600MHz Celeron with 128mb of RAM running under OpenSolaris build 66 on an UltraSPARC ii Enterprise 250 system and running my mNotes (Lotus Notes PDA Server) and VisionGS PE to power a camera looking up the stairs at my back door. (Yep, the one up top.)
If you'd like to see the full res pic, you can see it here:
http://andarazoroflove.org/gallery/misc/fOrk_screenie_with_sunpci?full=1
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As promised, a picture of my new Sun
17 June, 2007, 07:11 am
Got to admit, I'm a bit rusty having not used Solaris in about a year seriously....
However I've already decked this one out with some cool stuff like an Osprey-100 Video Capture board, 2Gb of RAM, some 15,000 RPM SCSI drives, and a 600MHz SunPCI ii Penguin
"computer on a pci card" to run some windows apps (mNotes and to add USB support to the Sun"
By the way, the SunPCI ii drivers DO work on OpenSolaris, I'll post a how-to some time this week on how I did it. I also found a couple other sites like mine which list things people have learned about Solaris and their trials and tribulations...very cool! Here's one of the better sites:
http://www.hecomputing.org
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It has been a LONG time.....again
5 June, 2007, 09:05 am
Got this blog back up and going...just acquired a new SPARC, an Enterprise 250 dual processor box and just got it up and running.
Welcome back :)
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