With regards the suspected hard disk, if you boot into single user from the CD/DVD and run 'format' you will find a "analyse" option in there. Select the bad drive and analyse it. That will certainly check out that drive and possible fix it (re-vectoring bad sectors, etc).
Be aware though that it will take a looooooooooong time to run!!
Good luck with trying a different drive.
Okay so i got the new drive and installed Solaris 10 no problem.
The only issue is now is, while i was waiting for the new drive i setup the rsc in the machine and now i cant seen to get the gfxi card to have any video
Ive tried resting the ptom by setting "set-defaults" but i still cant seem to get video. I got curious and wanted to make sure maybe the install wasn't text only, so when i run the setup cd i no longer get the gui install just the screen turns into a txt console
When solaris boots the screen just shows random fuzz
Any ideas what to do?, i was messing around with the input-device and output-device settings
I think
output-device=screen
will direct output to the graphics card.
Suggest that you read this thread:
okay got that to work and finally got Solaris installed.
Now i have a general unix question, in the root account when i open the terminal i get a pound sign #
But when i login into an account that i create with useradd -d /export/home/user -m user
i only get the $ instead is it only posible to get the # with the root account??
Yep, that's exactly right. The # prompt reminds you that you are root; whether you logged in as root or su'd up to root.
Other users get the $ prompt.
You can modify your prompt to 'root@<nodename>' which is even better for reminding you what rights you have.
Many administrators spend their time switching between accounts, and/or su'ing to root to do specific tasks.
On most flavors of Unix/Linux the root user by-passes ALL security so one mistake as root can blow up the system whereas other users will get caught by security if the try to do something stupid.
The # reminds you that you are root (ie, god) and anything you say goes; no questions asked; literally!!!!
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If you're a sysadmin with multiple systems on your network setting a prompt of 'root@<nodename>' also reminds you which system you are on as you move about your different systems.
ok thank you for clarifying that, is there any way i can get to # when im not in the root account
or even make the other account have root access so it says # and then turn the root account into a role or descriptor rather than a accoutn
Also I set up vnc using the built in SUNWXvnc but when I connect all I get is grey dotted screen with an x, but no log on prompt I looked a bit at gdm.conf to see if I could find anything but I couldn't Any tips?
And also i am familiar with adding a pkg file using the pkgadd command
However how do I add a package when it comes in the pkginfo & pgmap files Thanks
Sorry for all the beginner questions
On Solaris 11 root is a role by default. That means that you login as a different user and you can only get to root access by using 'su' or using 'sudo' to execute a command as root. See the man pages for both of those.
If you want to make root a normal login-able account you need to convert root from a role to a normal account with:
# rolemod -K type=normal root
Solaris package come in two formats:
stream (one .pkg file) and directory structure.
To install the 2nd form:
cd dir_where_package_dir_is
pkgadd -d . package_dir
Solaris 11 has a new package format but still accepts the old formats and commands.
Hi, how would i go about adding something to a users path variable
i am using the /bin/sh shell, i tried adding it to the file local.profile, but that does not seem to work.
Please use a new thread for a new question.
Thank you...