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Step 4: Figure out where your root submirror slices are. Hopefully they are s0 on both drives. Edit the file /etc/opt/SUNWmd/md.tab and put in the following … # root mirror d10 1 1 /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 d0 -m d10 d20 1 1 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 And then save this file. Don’t worry that the manual says you need to […]

Step 2: The smile :D will tell you that you had better see DiskSuite being in your plan from the beginning because its a bit of a pain if you need to free up a slice for the metadbs. Without going to the manual, here are the next steps … Suppose that you have the

Step 1: Follow the standard package installation process to get SUNWmd installed. When done, you should be able to check it thus: $ pkginfo -l SUNWmd PKGINST: SUNWmd NAME: Solstice DiskSuite CATEGORY: system ARCH: all VERSION: 4.0,REV=1.0 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: SunSoft, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business DESC: SunSoft’s Solstice DiskSuite PSTAMP: airjazz950414160211 INSTDATE: Dec 11

If you’re managing many Unix systems, you come across files with special characters – they can’t be deleted with rm command using standard approach and require a bit of trick to be successfully removed. Examples of files with special characters dash (-) and hash (#) RHEL$ ls -al -rw-r–r– 1 root root 0 Jun 25

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The server I need to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on does not have a floppy drive or CD-rom drive, but it has a USB port. What are the steps to configure a USB pen drive to boot and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux? To configure a USB flash/pen drive perform the following steps: 1.

1. Kick off the veritas initialization program vxinstall 2. Enter the license keys when you are prompted for them 3. Choose custom install from the menu 4. Choose to encapsulate your rootdisk 5. Choose to leave all other disks alone 6. Choose to reboot the server Original post blogged on b2evolution.

1. Initialize all disks to be in the disk group a. For instructions see “initializing a new disk” below 2. create the disk group vxdg init disk-group-name solaris-disk-name=veritas-disk-name [solaris-disk-name=veritas-disk-name …] Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Run the command with all attributes specificed vxassist –g disk-group-name make volume length layout=[…] ncol=[…] Original post blogged on b2evolution.

1. Physically add the drive the system 2. Make the drive visible to the OS a. # format b. you will see a list of disks currently visible to the system, take note of these because you will need to identify the new disk c. quit out of the format utility, you may need to