Update 09/16/2015 – I have published an updated article for this here: http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/08/bash-automatically-mount-file-systems-on-volume-group-if-present/ In my laptop I have a solid state disk, and frankly I am way past addicted to solid state disks, but what you get in performance you lose in capacity. As such I have had to be creative…
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I have finally got my hands on some SPARC gear, and I am making use of it by documenting the crap out of it. So after I got the ILOM situation sorted out I noticed that the OS itself wasn’t starting up, and I was just ending up at a…
Solaris 11: Permit Root Logins Locally and via SSH
In Solaris 11, a secondary user is created as part of the installation process, the text installation allows you to bypass this, but even if you do you will be unable to login as root to perform any configurations, even though you set the password as part of the setup. …
Linux-KVM: Using KVM on Oracle Linux 6
In my new role I am using Oracle Linux more and more, so as an exercise I have been replicating my builds on Oracle Linux. Here we are going to use Oracle Linux 6.2 x86_64 as a KVM hypervisor. Keep in mind that KVM is not Oracle’s preferred hypervisor, however…
Upgrade Solaris 11 Express to Solaris 11
Check Current Version The important thing to notice here is snv_151a, which means that it is Solaris 11 Express. Display the Current IPS Repositories This will show you the repositories configured on your system. Configure the IPS Repository If you don’t already have the repository configured you will need…