Week thirty! Wow, doesn’t seem so long when you say it like that…It’s been seven months!
Monday started out quite slowly, we had out afternoon meeting in the morning to talk to one of our Australian friends, but he wasn’t able to make the meeting. Monday went slowly with not much going on. Read the rest of this entry »
This week was very VERY busy!
Monday starts with me in the lab net booting a w1100z, this old box doesn’t output it’s BIOS over the serial cable, so a keyboard and screen was attached to allow me to net boot the thing.
I spent the end of the morning and all afternoon finishing off the cable store. All the boxes of SCSI/SAS cables are all in their own box, and are all labelled! Only took three sessions in there! Read the rest of this entry »
Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32. With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD 
I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine. Read the rest of this entry »
T’other day I won an IBM X32 on eBay (more on that tomorrow). I want to install OpenSolaris on the laptop, but it doesn’t have an optical drive…
I set about looking for a solution. Unfortunatly, Googling around didn’t throw up anything to begin with 
So I thought I’d record my steps as a walkthru. Read the rest of this entry »
This week took forever to finish!
The week started off with a couple of light jobs. I replaced a fan in a V210 and racked up an engineers stable system (a V240).
Tuesday was spent catching up on some work from the week before. Read the rest of this entry »
This week started with snow!
The whole week went with a bit of a blur. It started very slowly, but by Wednesday we were getting busier.
I spent the latter part of the week playing with Starcats and domains (15K and 25K). One job was to simply get a domain up and running and install a card. Another was to figure out why it had stopped working…
Today I woke up to snow!
Every car in the street was covered, and were the streets, all in about a quarter of an inch of the stuff! At 7:45 this morning, it was still pretty unspoilt on the way to the bus, it was quite a sight!
I’ve got some pics, will put them up later this evening!
On my server, I’ve been looking into having various ZFS file systems, this would allow me to better manage parts of the system later on.
I have so far set it all up as such: Read the rest of this entry »
Ok, I know I’ve blogged this before, but this is about doing it via the command line:
I installed everything as root…
# pkg install SUNWgcc
Simple as that!
Some other packages people might like:
# pkg install SUNWgmake
# pkg install SUNWsvn
These have all come in handy whilst setting up my new server.
