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Tag Archives: solaris
Solaris, what’s the point?
Posted by Mark
on October 25, 2010
1 comment
Patching a live Solaris 10 system with LU, ZFS, and PCA
Posted by Mark
on March 3, 2010
12 comments
Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade – the last time I looked at it, a few years back now, it was rubbish. I thought it was about time I took another look, since a lot of the updates in OpenSolaris were looking good. Read more »
JumpStart, sysidcfg, and the mystery of enabling network/nis/client
Posted by Mark
on February 11, 2010
No comments
Came across an intriguing problem today. Whilst trying to develop a generic Solaris PXE boot solution for x86 Solaris installs I was having a problem with enabling NIS post install. Read more »
Benchmarking Linux, Solaris and Windows on HP hardware
Posted by Mark
on February 1, 2010
7 comments
A short while ago I got the opportunity to compare the performance of a number of operating systems on the same piece of hardware.
The server in question was a HP DL580G5, but with four 6-core Intel Dunnington CPUs in, each running at 2.66ghz. Read more »
Choosing an Operating System
Posted by Mark
on February 1, 2010
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Working out what package a file comes from in Solaris
Posted by Mark
on October 6, 2009
3 comments
As much as I like Solaris the packaging system is crap. And fathoming out what package you need to install to gain a particular command is nigh on impossible. Read more »
Building IPS on Solaris 10
Posted by Mark
on August 14, 2009
2 comments
Centralised package delivery on Solaris can be a bit of a pain. Blastwave was a nice solution, but with OpenCSW splitting away from them and the two camps now delivering the same packages to the same disk hierarchy we’re left with too much choice and a confusion of options. They’re still both a good solution, but maybe there is a better option. Read more »
CPAN 1.94 fixes Solaris untar issue
Posted by Mark
on May 28, 2009
2 comments
In my earlier post about using local::lib I commented that CPAN wouldn’t untar with the Solaris shipped tar program, and you had to use GNU tar from OpenCSW or Blastwave. 1.94 appears to fix the problem and untars just fine with the native Solaris tar. Read more »