Entries Categorized as 'Solaris'

Identifying the Hard Drives in Your System Under Solaris

Date May 19, 2008 by Isaac

As someone coming from Linux I find working in Solaris completely backwards. Case in point: Today I needed to get the drive information from a Solaris machine. Of all commands the one to use is “format.” Go figure. Anyway, here’s how to do it, thanks to this article:
bash-3.00# format
Searching for disks…done

AVAILABLE [...]

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Unmounting an ISO Image in Solaris

Date February 9, 2008 by Isaac

As a follow up to a previous post, here is how to unmount an ISO image in Solaris. In Linux mounting and unmounting ISO images is a one step process, not two like in Solaris.
Unmount the image:
umount /mount/point
Delete the block device:
lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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Showing Installed RAM in Solaris

Date February 7, 2008 by Isaac

The following command will show the amount of installed RAM in a Sun Solaris machine.
/usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory

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Mounting an ISO Image in Solaris

Date February 6, 2008 by Isaac

I don’t want to start a flame war, but I have never been fond of Solaris. It feels clumsy to me after using Linux for so long. However, my role at work has recently shifted and I have been forced into using Solaris. So, I am going to start posting little Solaris [...]

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