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Re: totally new not dived in yet

2009-11-24T05:41:04Z

hume.spamfil...@bofh.ca wrote in
news:hefjfb$1mr$1@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca:
I downloaded this Iso image sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd
do I first have to record it to a dvd, and then back to Virtual box?
Or just extract the image from virtual box? new to this style of doing
things.
I have virtual box downloaded but not installed.

Re: Fast cheap SPARC hardware.

2009-11-24T05:06:02Z

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:35:01 -0700, Canuck57 <Canuc...@nospam.com>
wrote:
I have Solaris 10 running on a Sunfire X1100 which has a dual core
2.4Ghz AMD Opteron, with 2G RAM and 2x80G SATA hard drives, and it
didn't cost very much.
=-=-=
Barry
[link]

Re: ping www.sun.com ===>> unknown host www.sun.com: What 1 cmd fixes it?

2009-11-24T04:57:54Z

Different routers have different addresses. Mine has 192.168.1.1. Then
also it can be changed manually. So the fist thing to check is the command
netstat -rn
This will show the default route (to the router) and it's address, if
the network is working.
See above
Not really. inet has an address of 0.0.0.0

Re: ping www.sun.com ===>> unknown host www.sun.com: What 1 cmd fixes it?

2009-11-24T03:45:57Z

In article <xoudnXcs9v10AZfWnZ2dnUVZ_qOdn ...@giganews.com>,
1: ping 192.168.0.1 gives
ICMP host unreachable from gateway localhost (127.0.0.1)
for icmp from localhost (127.0.0.1) to 192.168.0.1
and then in a loop keeps outputting those two lines until I ^C it.
NOTE: ping localhost says localhost is alive (or something like that)

Re: Opera v10.10

2009-11-24T03:29:21Z

That link only gets you the "pkg" version. If you want a "tar" version
you can install in any directory, follow this link:
[link]
Paul

Re: totally new not dived in yet

2009-11-24T03:21:15Z

Just one. Or none, if you install into VirtualBox.
Install Solaris *INTO* it. VirtualBox simulates an entire running computer
inside a window on your Windows machine.
Yes, but with VirtualBox it won't care. It'll NAT using your Windows
ethernet device using a "virtual" ethernet card inside the VM.

totally new not dived in yet

2009-11-24T02:14:01Z

have a gateway laptop with vista 64
Have not liked windows or bill gates for a long time.
Is Solaris any better? Guess we will find out.
ok some questions.
I have dvd drive in laptop.
I have the iso files for newest solaris.
How many DVD's will I need?
sun says to leave windows on the laptop, install

Re: Fast cheap SPARC hardware.

2009-11-23T21:23:45Z

I must admit, I'd not really thought about running Solaris 10 on the
x86 hardware. Certainly OpenSolaris on x86 present many issues, that
prevent Sage buiiding at all. For example
[link]
shows a linking error which occurs on OpenSolaris (x86) but not on
Solaris 10 (SPARC).. I think this one is due to the fact that Sage

Re: Fast cheap SPARC hardware.

2009-11-23T20:49:09Z

Hi
For a project like this, there are likely to be issues with numerical
precision on all platforms. This will be a particular problem if 32bit
x86 is a target, but there will also be inconsistencies between SPARC
and amd64. If identical results are required on all platforms, then all
platforms will need to be used and tested.

Re: ping www.sun.com ===>> unknown host www.sun.com: What 1 cmd fixes it?

2009-11-23T18:32:53Z

post the output of:
I suspect the default gateway was not made "permanent" and got lost on
reboot. If that the case, the 1 cmd to fix it would be
route -p add default ###.###.###.###
where ###... is your router's IP address.

Opera v10.10

2009-11-23T16:37:01Z

New version of Opera Browser for SPARC and x86:
<URL:[link]>
John
groenv...@acm.org

Re: Fast cheap SPARC hardware.

2009-11-23T16:24:44Z

Mark wrote:
ISTR that the original of this was known as the "Truman Triangle"^1 and
read Fast, Cheap, and Good.
1. Truman, Harry S. 1884-1972

Re: Fast cheap SPARC hardware.

2009-11-23T15:59:51Z

Sadly, I think your post title could be used as a classic example of
IT compromise :
"Fast, cheap, and SPARC". Pick any two...
-Mark

Re: ping www.sun.com ===>> unknown host www.sun.com: What 1 cmd fixes it?

2009-11-23T14:46:17Z

Even if the remote site is down, you'll get a "no response" error...
NOT a "unknown host" error, as the original poster said he saw.

Re: ping www.sun.com ===>> unknown host www.sun.com: What 1 cmd fixes it?

2009-11-23T14:45:28Z

Yes, ping.
However, "unknown host" seems to indicate that perhaps your nameservice
is broken. That MIGHT be because the entire network is broken, but perhaps
not.
First, ping the router.
Then, ping the nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
Then, use 'nslookup' to check if a known host will resolve, like [link].