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The purpose of this reference is to collect and create a knowledge base for SUN Solaris and SGI Irix related Operating System issues. These are some of the issues I came and still come across when dealing with the following hardware:

SUN: Blade 1000, Ultra 10, Ultra 1, V100

SGI: O2, ONYX, Challenge M, Origin 200, Indigo, Indy

This reference will be updated regularly as old issues are documented and new ones come up. Feel free to link to this reference if you find it helpful; however, I advise against linking to any specific page, because the page numbers may change. It is better to link to this index page.

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Table of Contents

1. Sun Solaris

1.1 Booting

1.1.1 Boot Devices

1.1.1.1 Aliases and physical addresses

1.1.2 EEPROM security mode and password reset

1.1.2.1 Knowing the existing password
1.1.2.2 Not knowing the existing password

1.2 Network Setup

1.2.1 /etc/hostname.interface
1.2.2 /etc/nodename
1.2.3 /etc/defaultdomain
1.2.4 /etc/defaultrouter
1.2.5 /etc/hosts
1.2.6 /etc/netmasks
1.2.7 /etc/resolv.conf

1.3 Setting up a Domain Name Server

1.3.1 Creating Boot and Data Files
1.3.2 Setting up the Boot file
1.3.3 Setting up the Data Files
1.3.4 Setting up the Host Data Files
1.3.5 Setting up named.local file
1.3.6 Setting up named.ca file
1.3.7 Understanding Standard Resource Record Format
1.3.8 Control Entities
1.3.9 Most commonly used types of RR's
1.3.10 SOA : Start of Authority
1.3.11 NS : Name Server
1.3.12 A : Address
1.3.13 WKS : Well Known Services
1.3.14 CNAME : Canonical Name
1.3.15 PTR : Domain Name Pointer
1.3.16 MX : Mail Exchanger
1.3.17 Modifying the Startup Script

1.4 Disks and File Systems

1.4.1 Disk Copy

1.4.1.1 FC-AL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop) Drives

1.4.2 NFS - Network File System

1.4.2.1 Server Setup
1.4.2.2 Client Setup

1.5 NIS and YP Setup

1.5.1 NIS Server Setup
1.5.2 NIS Slave Setup
1.5.3 NIS Client Setup

1.6 Sendmail Configuration

1.6.1 MASQUERADE
1.6.2 SPAM - Rejection by domain

1.7 Software Compilation / Installation / Environment Setup

1.7.1 CDE Workspace Menu

1.8 SUNPCi Host Networking
1.9 Ultra 10

1.9.1 ATA Hard Drives

1.10 Sun V100

1.10.1 ATA Hard Drives

1.11 SunRay Server Setup

1.11.1 Adding the package to your system
1.11.2 DHCP Server Setup
1.11.3 Configure the SunRay Server for the shared, routed network
1.11.4 Configuration of Sun Ray server Software
1.11.5 Other useful notes

1.11.5.1 TCP Routing conflicting with SunRay Server
1.11.5.2 Dynamic IP changes and SunRay Server

2. SGI IRIX

2.1 Disks and File Systems

2.1.1 Disk Copy

2.2 Restricted FTP Access (chroot)