Solaris 8 Domain Name query

[root]

Dear Sun friends

I have been trying to install Solaris 8 (intel Platform) using Sun's Web
Start installer

When the CDE kiosk starts up it starts asking the following questions

Is this a network machine? (YES)
Are you using DHCP? (YES)
Do you want to use IPv4 or v6? (IPV4)
what is your domain name? (humber.ac.uk)
What is your DNS IP's Address? (xxx.xx.xx.xx, xxx.xx.xx.xx - I did put
real numbers here!)
What are the domain search domains? (NONE- ie assume humber.ac.uk)

............then there are some geographical question and root
password................

When I press on confirm it comes back with the error "The Name Server
field is filled in incorrect".

I've tried using ".humber.ac.uk", "mymachine.humber.ac.uk" but I always
get the same error

Any help would be very much appreciated!!

Regards
Darren Bird

(email db...@humber.ac.uk)

[Ulrich Ruppel]

root wrote:
>
> Dear Sun friends
>
> I have been trying to install Solaris 8 (intel Platform) using Sun's Web
> Start installer
>
> When the CDE kiosk starts up it starts asking the following questions
>
> Is this a network machine? (YES)
> Are you using DHCP? (YES)
> Do you want to use IPv4 or v6? (IPV4)
> what is your domain name? (humber.ac.uk)
> What is your DNS IP's Address? (xxx.xx.xx.xx, xxx.xx.xx.xx - I did put
> real numbers here!)
> What are the domain search domains? (NONE- ie assume humber.ac.uk)
>
> ............then there are some geographical question and root
> password................
>
> When I press on confirm it comes back with the error "The Name Server
> field is filled in incorrect".
>
> I've tried using ".humber.ac.uk", "mymachine.humber.ac.uk" but I always
> get the same error
>

If internal and external DNS is the same, try to use

nameserver = dns.humber.ac.uk
internet address = 194.80.49.40

The domain is humber.ac.uk

This will work.

( The file which is configured is "/etc/resolv.conf" ==> man
resolv.conf )

Uli

[Peter Schmid]

I personally had MUCH trouble with the web start. I just would
not accept my networking parameters at all. And I know they
were right. I booted off of the second CD and got the old
openwindows suninstall. That worked great.

Pete.

root wrote:

> Dear Sun friends
>
> I have been trying to install Solaris 8 (intel Platform) using Sun's Web
> Start installer
>
> When the CDE kiosk starts up it starts asking the following questions
>
> Is this a network machine? (YES)
> Are you using DHCP? (YES)
> Do you want to use IPv4 or v6? (IPV4)
> what is your domain name? (humber.ac.uk)
> What is your DNS IP's Address? (xxx.xx.xx.xx, xxx.xx.xx.xx - I did put
> real numbers here!)
> What are the domain search domains? (NONE- ie assume humber.ac.uk)
>
> ............then there are some geographical question and root
> password................
>
> When I press on confirm it comes back with the error "The Name Server
> field is filled in incorrect".
>
> I've tried using ".humber.ac.uk", "mymachine.humber.ac.uk" but I always
> get the same error
>

[Toaster Tester]

I had a similar problem on two Sun's I've tried to setup. In long run it
was easier to tell it None for the name service, then manually
create/configure the files.

Steve B.

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