I got a Sun Blade 100, with a 20gb drive and 512mb memory and an Elite-3d lite video card for $630 with shipping. It came with solaris 8 installed. It just arrived last night, so of course I played with it trying to get it on the net.
Congrats on your purchase. About 2+ years ago, I purchased one for about $1000 ( and an additional $2500 for a Solaris 8 license/subscription). Also, got a SunPCI card with an Intel 700 Mhz Celeron for running Windows Apps within a Solaris window at native speed. Jack Morgan told me that Linux support not available for the SunPCI card yet.
On bootup I noticed the interface eri0, and it got a dhcp lease. For some reason though, it didn't overwrite /etc/resolv.conf with the values from the dhcp server, so I had to manually modify that. Later I discovered the "windex" and creating it with "catman" instead of creating the "whatis database" with "updatedb". That took a l00ng time, but I'm glad there is so much documentation preinstalled.
Once getting my ip up, and setting my resolv.conf, I then discovered that I could "nslookup google.com" and get something, but I couldn't ping it. I could ping IP addresses, but no dns names. Hmmm... Trying some other utilities returned the same results. I then tried "strace" ... oops, not the same as linux's strace. However I found apptrace, which reports all of a programs system calls. I apptraced ping and saw the network libraries it was referring to, then looked up the man pages for the functions. Eventually I found nsswitch.conf and discovered that I needed to put "dns" into the line that said: hosts: files.
There was some difficulting finding the contents of /home, and trying to make a directory in it as root! Turns out automountd was set to auto mount /home somewhere. Reconfiguring automount allowed me to see the contents of home, and modify them, to make my own user directory!
I also managed to break cde/xdm/dt or whatever (the desktop).
Common Desktop Environment, what a classic. Similar to the Presentation Manager in Windows 3.1 and possibly OS/2
After logging in to xdm, I would see my desktop for a brief few seconds, then I got a black screen with a mouse cursor. The only keyboard combo that I knew was STOP+A, which allowed me to reset the machine. It's been years since I rebooted a unix machine so many times! Finally I figured out that I had put an invalid entry in my /etc/hosts file for 127.0.0.1 and dtsession didn't like that.
All right, I have some solaris questions:
What other key combinations can I use? I know about STOP+A to get the PROM console up, but the only commands I've used are 'go' and 'boot' and 'help'.
You are better off than I am. Seems that you have a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard, which has the STOP key on the left of the keyboard. I am using a Windows-compatible USB keyboard which does not have the STOP key ( have to "double click" on the power button at the right time to get the effect of STOP+A ).
Rodney
Is there anything I can do to get a virtual console(ctrl+alt+F1), or kill Xwindows(ctrl+alt+backspace)?
Thanks, Cory
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