Installing Solaris 10 on the SunFire V100 UltraSPARC server is very easy and straightforward. However, if you install the “Core” version of the distribution there are some surprises out there. So I decided to document my own installation procedure as well as subsequent “setup” steps that I use to get the server into a reasonable …
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Netgear SC101 Networking
IP Networking for the SC101 The Netgear SC101 Storage Central is a very simple device and does not offer any sort of interface to its network settings. This can cause quite an issue if you are attempting to place it onto a network that does not have DHCP. In fact you can’t use it without …
Netgear SC101 SAN Device: Introduction
The Netgear SC101 Storage Central is a small, consumer level SAN (Storage Area Network) device designed for home users and based on the ZSAN SAN protocol. ZSAN by Zetera is a competing, but far less common, SAN protocal with iSCSI. The device is small and attractive – it should probably have been called the Storage …
Mounting ISO Files on Linux
Often these days, especially when working with operating system downloaded ISO images, it would be handy to be able to work directly with the contents of the ISO files rather than to burn them to CD and place them physically into a CDROM drive. Sometimes this is because the machine that you are working with …
Simple SAMBA on Solaris 10
Having built a simple NFS file server off of a SUN SunFire V100 server with Solaris 10 Update 4 (8/7) my next task is to share the same directory via Microsoft’s CIFS (aka Server Message Block or SMB) protocol. In order to do this we will need the open source software package SAMBA. This is …