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    How to set an IP address permanently in Solaris

    October 26, 2012 /

    Here is how I setup IP address on a Solaris box. Note that I did not have the edit the /etc/inet/ipnodes  file because it was just a symlink to /etc/hosts on this particular machine. Naren’s: To set an IP address permanently in Solaris

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    Replacing a failed boot disk in Solaris

    October 25, 2012 /

    Here is how to replace a failed boot disk having a software mirror on it (on a Solaris box): Replacing a failed boot disk

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    Performing solaris maintenance when booted from cdrom

    October 25, 2012 /

    I was stuck with a dead HDD0 on a Sun T2000 box. The HDD1 was mirrored with HDD0 but someone did not put a boot block on it. Hence the system would not boot from HDD1. I tried putting a boot block on HDD1 but it threw the system into a panic mode while trying to boot up from HDD1 I found this useful webpage which describes how to boot from a Solaris OS CD ROM disk and perform necessary work Performing maintenance when booted from cdrom

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    vi says it does not know what kind of terminal…

    October 25, 2012 /

    Ok so I got this error when I ran vi on a Solaris box while booted off a CD ROM I don’t know what kind of terminal you are on – all I have is ‘unknown’. Solution: run these two commands: TERM=vt100export TERM Note: Running this command did NOT work: export TERM=vt100

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