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What web and FTP sites do I need to know about? http://sun.drydog.com/faq/

What's new for Solaris 9? Solaris 9 has just been released for SPARC (5/2002), but not Intel.

How do I subscribe to the Solaris/x86 mailing list? Subscribe by sending an e-mail message to

Where can I obtain Solaris 2/x86 maintenance updates? Starting with Solaris 7, Sun includ

Where can I obtain Solaris 2/x86 patches? The Solaris x86 driver updates can be obtained by H

How can I obtain freeware, shareware, and GNU software on a CD-ROM? Solaris 8 comes with some

What UNIX-like operating systems are available on x86? Solaris x86, SVR4-based

What books are available on Solaris x86? For Unix system administration in general, I like

What magazine articles are available on Solaris x86? "Sun injects Solaris X86 with new life

What's new for Solaris 8 Intel? Here's the more-notable improvements: ISA bus supp

What information should I have before an install? Size of your disk Ethernet ha

What's missing from the "free" copy of Solaris that's in the commercial version? The followin

How do you create a Device Configuration Assistant (DCA) Diskette in DOS/Windows? The DCA dis

How can I get Solaris to see the third ATAPI controller? Solaris 7 can be configured to s

Are Ultra DMA (UDMA) drives supported? I understand Solaris 7 recognizes UDMA drives in nativ

Are Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices supported? Solaris 8 supports USB. However, not al

Is Microsoft Intellimouse or other scrolling mice supported? Partly (with native XSun). Conf

What's difference between Solaris x86 Server and Solaris x86 Desktop? There is absolutely no

Solaris doesn't recognize all of my large (>40GB) ATAPI. For example, a 60GB disk shows up as

Is Solaris Intel 64-bit aware? No. Due to the underlying Intel chip architecture, Solaris Int

What's the difference between partitions and slices? In the UNIX world, partitions and slices

What hardware is supported by Solaris 2.x for Intel? Solaris x86 is the version that runs on

What are the IRQ assignments? IRQs, Interrupt Request Registers, numbered 0 to 15, handle int

What size disks and partitions should I have? If you install all of Solaris, with no AnswerBo

What are SCSI IDs expected by Solaris x86? These are the typical values for SCSI devices. Fo

What video card/monitor combination works best? Some questions will arise when trying to conf

Is Plug-and-Play (PNP) supported by Solaris/x86? Yes, with release 2.6 and latter. Solaris 2.

Is Advanced Power Management (APM) supported by Solaris/x86? APM isn't really supported on x8

Are "floppy tape" devices supported by Solaris x86? No. You have to use a SCSI tape backup de

How can I get a "free" copy of Solaris? A "free" copy of Solaris (where "free" means the

How long does the install take? It depends on the CD-ROM and hard disk speed. On a 300 MHz P

Help! I get a "No VTOC" or cannot mount error installing Solaris. "VTOC" is a disk volume tab

My ATAPI CD-ROM isn't recognized during install by Solaris' FCS MCB and it's not in the HCL. W

What kind of problems might I encounter installing my SCSI system? Typical problems with SCSI

What do I do when the install hangs/panics? One of the most common problems with some mother

I'm trying to install Solaris/x86 on my ATAPI drive. However, the installation program says th

Does Solaris x86 prefer to have the motherboard BIOS set to NORMAL or LBA for ATAPI disks? In

Why does a Solaris install to a disk with valid, pre-existing fdisk partitions sometimes fail?

How do I add a 8 GB or greater ATAPI drive to Solaris 7 or earlier? Solaris 8 has support for

How do I install or use the documentation CD? The AnswerBook documentation CD that comes

How do I add additional drives? First, you must have Solaris scan for the new drive. Beco

How do I disable Solaris/x86 from probing the UPS on COM2? With the following command, ran as

How do I set up Solaris/x86 to use PPP to connect to an ISP? "Life is too short for bad PP

Is there any open source PPP that's easier to use than Sun's aspppd? Yes, PPPd. As you can s

Is there any commercial PPP that's easier to use? Yes. Solaris sells its "Solstice PPP" prod

Help! My USRobotics Internal modem doesn't work with PPP. If it's a WinModem, you're out of l

PPP runs extremely slow. What's wrong? Solaris 2.5.1 patch 101945-34+ has poor TCP performa

How do I configure PPP using Dynamic IP Addresses (DHCP)? If you're using Solaris aspppd, you

How do I configure my SoundBlaster card? If you have a SoundBlaster 16 PCI or Soun

How do I enable the audio output from my CDROM to my SBPRO card? Start audiocontrol then sele

Is Solaris/x86 Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant? Solaris 8 is Y2K OK out-of-the-box (so far). So

How do I add or configure users, printers, serial ports, software, etc.? Use admintool from X

Can I use Solaris/x86 to setup a "headless" server? The answer is yes, it can be done, but it

Can I get a Sun-style keyboard (Ctrl & Caps Lock reversed) for S/x86? PFU America, http://w

Can I run multiple terminals on the console of Solaris x86 like those supported on Linux, Free

How do I upgrade my video graphics card? First see if you have the driver installed. They ar

How to I burn a CD-R or CD-RW with Solaris? Use cdrecord (free) or commercial software. S

Is IPv6 available for Solaris/x86? Yes, starting in Solaris 8. See http://www.Sun.CO

Is IPsec available for Solaris/x86? Yes, for Solaris 8. See volume 3 of the System Admin

Is Kerberos 5 available for Solaris/x86? Yes, for Solaris 8. See volume 3 of the System

Does Solaris x86 support multiple processors? Yes. Solaris x86 automatically detects multiple

How do I uncompress a .gz file? With "gzip -d" (or gunzip, which is gzip linked to gzip).

How do I suppress the banner page on my printer? To disable the banner pages permanen

Why doesn't /usr/bin/cc work? Because it's just a front-end "stub" for the unbundled C compil

How do you get PGP 2.6.2 to compile on Solaris/x86? PGP, or Pretty-good Privacy, is strong-en

How do you connect Solaris to my cable modem? Grab this e-zine article "xDSL and ca

How do you setup Solaris to use RoadRunner's cable modem service? RoadRunner uses General Ins

How do I force the speed and/or duplex of my network interfaces (ndd(1M) doesn't work)? No x8

Why can't I create a home directory under /home? For Solaris, /home is not an on-di

Is Veritas file system available for Solaris Intel? Only through NCR Corporation. [

How to I use Zip and Jazz Drives for Solaris Intel? Iomega's Zip and Jazz Drives are supporte

How to I use Linux NIC drivers for Solaris Intel? Sun has released (9/2000) a free netwo

How to I add color to "ls" or "vi"? For "ls" you need the GNU "fileutils" version of ls.

How do I set up an HP-compatible printer to print PostScript files? Solaris 8 has this abilit

How to I move the disk containing Solaris from the ATAPI primary master controller to the seco

I've installed Solaris using Sun's brain dead disk slice defaults. How do I modify my slices?

How do I mirror root with Disksuite when /boot is a separate fdisk partition? You don't. Disk

Is ISDN supported for Solaris x86? ISDN is hard to setup and slow compared to cable-modem ser

Is there a substitute available for PRNG /dev/random for Solaris x86? Yes. /dev/random an

What are some good, easty-to-use printing solutions for Solaris? A writeup by Carl Ehorn, bel

How can I improve disk and graphic performance? Disk Performance (iozone) A typical

How do I get Solaris to recognize generic network cards with well-known chipsets? 6.7) How do

How do I change the IP address or hostname or both on Solaris/x86? See the instructions in "m

How do I configure another serial port, /dev/ttyb-ttyd (COM2-4)? Solaris 2.6 and above config

What can I do if Solaris won't boot? You need to boot from your install CD. Insert the So

What is the equivalent of STOP-A for Solaris Intel? >I don't think so, because Stop-A allow y

How can I reboot Solaris x86 without it asking me to to "press a key" before rebooting? This

Help! I'm stuck in the "Boot Assistant" and can't boot. What do I do? If you get a message si

How do I restore the Solaris boot block without reinstalling? This may happen when installing

What can I do during the Solaris/x86 booting sequence? Step #1: Boot loader If you

How do I logon as root if the password doesn't work anymore? Regaining control of a Solaris x

My licensed software fails because the host ID is 0. What's wrong? Intel processor machines d

How can I fix Netscape Communicator to render fonts correctly on S/x86? This problem occurs w

Why doesn't Netscape run as root? This is a bug in Netscape. Due to a Netscape 4.x bug (i

I moved my PCI host adapter to another slot and the system won't boot! Don't move the adapter

Why is Solaris always booting into the Device Configuration Assistant (DCA)? This is usually

How do you install XFree86 on Solaris? Why would you want to? Usually because the standar

How do I get my 2-button mouse to emulate 3 buttons? In Solaris 8, "kdmconfig" will autodetec

How do I make the NumLock key go on automatically when I log in? Add xset led 2 to your

How do I configure 64K colors for CDE? Solaris' kdmconfig offers only a choice of 256 or 16M

How do I Add Gnome, KDE or other non-CDE Window Mangers to the dtlogin screen? The easiest wa

Where can I get GNOME or KDE packages for Solaris/x86? GNOME (and KDE) are available with the

Are TrueType fonts supported in Solaris? Yes, Xsun supports them. Use the Font Administ

How do I make XFree86 version 3.x- or XiG Xaccel 5.0.3- work with Solaris 8? You can't. X

How do I disable CDE auto-start upon booting multi-user? Boot single-user and run dtconfig (

How do I su(1) to another user and run an X application? You need to set your $DISPLAY and al

Does Solaris Intel support multiple heads? No. A commercial X server from Xi graphic

Can I install Solaris x86 on a system that already has MS Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP (among other

Does PartitionMagic and BootMagic understand Solaris partitions? Yes and no. BootMagic ca

How do I access a DOS-format diskette from Solaris? Using volume management, type "volcheck".

Does Solaris mount and recognize MS Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP partitions with long file names (VFAT)

How can I make my Solaris files easily available to MS Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP on a network? S

How can I make my Solaris files easily available to an Apple Macintosh on a network? Use CAP,

How do I access a Mac diskette from Solaris? Use a emulator package like Mae from Apple

What is WABI? WABI is "Windows Application Binary Interface." WABI 2.2 (which ships with

Can I use SunPCi on Solaris/x86? No. SunPCi is an add-on card and software for Solaris on SPA

Will Linux programs run on Solaris 2/x86? The Lxrun program, originally written for SCO,

How can I get the DOS and UNIX clock to agree on Solaris/x86? After installation, run the com

How can I use MS Windows' NT/2K Loader to boot Solaris/x86? The general idea is that you copy

Is Solaris x86 able to execute Solaris SPARC applications? There's no way to run a SPARC bina

Will my old applications from SVR3 or SCO run on Solaris 2/x86? Solaris x86 has an emulation

Will my application from Solaris/SPARC work on Solaris/x86? I have the source. Yes and no. Ge

Can I access Solaris/x86 partitions from Linux? Yes. Read-only access is available. You nee

Can I access Linux (ext2fs) partitions from Solaris? Yes. The Lxrun program (see the ques

What are some books on Windows NT/Solaris integration? The best book is, IMHO: David Gunt

How can I view MS Word files in Solaris? Multiple applications support viewing MS Word files.

I downloaded Internet Explorer (or Media Player) but it doesn't install. What's wrong? Micros

Where can I get Netscape or other web browsers for Solaris Intel? Netscape comes with Solaris

Can I mount other ufs disks, say from BSDi/FreeBSD, and vice versa? Maybe. First, although S

How can I use the Solaris boot manager to boot Windows NT? Create 3 PRIMARY partition

How can I use a disk partition on Solaris 2.x which was previously dedicated to MS Windows 9x/

How can I convert a DOS/Windows text file to a Unix text file? dos2unix

Can VMware be used with Solaris x86? Yes. VMware is commercial software to allow one

Is Solaris on Intel really "Slowaris"--slower than other Intel-based operating systems? By de

How can I remove (uninstall) Solaris from my hard drive? If you have another Operating System

What hardware solutions are available for dual booting? Romtec makes "Trios," which allows fo

How can I use System Commander to boot Solaris/x86 and other systems? To use System Commander

Can I install Linux and Solaris on the same drive? Yes, with certain precautions. Be espe

How can I use LILO to boot Solaris/x86 on the primary slave ATAPI? Basically, the Linux

How can I use OS-BS or System Selector to boot Solaris/x86? Grab OS-BS [a free boot manager d

How can I boot both Solaris/x86 and Win NT on the same disk? Here's one way of doing it. Sol

How do I mount a DOS partition from the hard drive? mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1 /

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