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Locate an Unknown NIC Device Name in Solaris 9

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

If you install a NIC in a Solaris SPARC box, at least on Solaris 9, and you don’t know the device name, the following will help:
prtconf -pv | more
look for
device_type:  ‘network’
Near the network device you’ll see model and name, similar to this:
model:  ‘SUNW,pci-qfe’
name:  ‘SUNW,qfe’
In this case your device is a qfe card.  You can get [...]

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Tags: How Tos · solaris

Solaris Jumpstart Server on Linux

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Projects_Linux_Jumpstart_Server
Very comprehensive tutorial on setting up a Solaris Jump Start server on Debian Linux (works on pretty much any Linux distro)

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Tags: Debian · jumpstart · offsiteHowTo · solaris