Solaris/Solaris Questions/Answers

how to scan/detect your hardware

adding a new hard disk

installing a Marvell Yukon network card

getting details of the Firewire network adapter

installing sound drivers for ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia on Solaris 10 using OSS sound drivers

displaying available screen resolutions on Sparc

selecting a given resolution on Sparc

eject a CDROM

Sparc's boot prompt

what are the differences between the various flavours of Solaris (Solaris, OpenSolaris, Nexenta...)

what are the pros and cons of Solaris and OpenSolaris

how to check your system supports Solaris

how to boot on a CD-ROM on a Sparc

is there a live cd for OpenSolaris ?

how to upgrade Solaris 10 u4 to u5 or u5 to u6

after an upgrade, I can't mount my ZFS partitions

which version of Solaris integrates ZFS boot ?

how to restore the GRUB bootloader on Solaris 10

what are solaris slices ?

how to list slices on Solaris 10 or on OpenSolaris

how to create a ZFS pool

how to mirror devices using ZFS

how to compress ZFS partitions

how to set quotas on ZFS partitions

how to mount a UFS partition

how to mount a Windows FAT partition

is it possible to mount NTFS partitions ?

where/how does my USB card mount ?

where/how does my USB disk drive mount ?

how to install Linux on OpenSolaris

how to start/stop services on Solaris/OpenSolaris

Service Management Facility on Solaris/OpenSolaris

Is there some graphical way to manage the host ?

How to add a new user

How to log authentication failures

How to relax/strengthen the password policy ?

How to automatically log a user (and launch his session) when the computer boots ?

How to set the default PATH for all users on the system ?

How to set compilation messages in English ?

How to set/correct the system's date or time ?

How to name a given host on your network so that, for instance, you can ping the name and it pings the corresponding IP address.

How to list available network interfaces ?

How to list configured routes ?

Is there a graphical user interface (GUI) for networking ?

How to set a static IP address to your host

How to manually test and configure a host with a static IP address

How to use the default networking service or the networking daemon ?

How to permanently set routes for your host ?

How to enable rlogin on Open/Solaris ?

You're logged on the Solaris/OpenSolaris host (from another host - for example with a rlogin or ssh) How to get windows of the solaris/opensolaris host to display on your host ?

How to get rid of the message "failed to execute child process “xscreensaver"" on Solaris u5 ?

How to use GDM instead of CDE login ?

How to enable XDMCP ?

How to display the string corresponding to a given font ?

How to specify a given font for your XTerm ?

What are the differences between pkgadd, pkg-get, pkgutil and IPS ?

How to patch your Solaris ?

I patched my system, it all went wrong !

What's the typical name of Sun's packages ?

What's the typical name of Blastwave's packages ?

Where can I expect to find installed software on my host ?

How to install a package ?

How to list all installed packages ?

How to get details of a given package ?

How to list the contents of a package ?

How to remove a package ?

Where are installed packages located ?

How to search in which package a given command is included ?

How to handle package dependencies ?

How to automatically fetch a package on the net ?

How to install pkg-get ?

How to configure pkg-get's repositories ?

How to automatically check pkg-get packages signatures ?

How to upgrade a package with pkg-get ?

How to install pkgutil ?

What does an IPS package look like ?

How to install an OpenSolaris package with IPS ?

I'd like to compare IPS commands with pkgadd or apt-get

How can I unpack a Debian package on Solaris ?

What should my .bashrc look like on Solaris/OpenSolaris ?

How to tell whether I'm on a 64-bit host or 32-bit host ?

How to tell whether a binary is compiles for 32 or 64 bit ?

How to set your PATH on a 64-bit system to use 64-bit applications ?

How to set up a developer environment on Solaris ?

Is gcc required on Solaris for development ?

What paths should I set for development on Solaris ?

What packages should I install on OpenSolaris for development ?

What's the -R option for ?

Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH required ?

How to list current paths ?

What library paths should I use on 64-bit systems ?