On 12/1/06, Bruce Lorente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy,
Installed Windows first then Solaris 10, worked for a while then
crashed. Installed again using Partition Commander to create NTFS
partition for Windows, Solaris 10 partition, and FAT32 buffer partition.
Works better.
Current problems:
1: Error msg on boot-up: Hostname "unknown", then prompt "unknown
console login" and system pauses for long time, before log-in screen
comes up. I have attempted to fix this in SMC but have been unsuccessful
thus far. Am able to rename "unknown" to a specified hostname
temporarily in SMC but system reverts on re-boot. I would attribute this
to user inexperience with Solaris set-up process but any advice on how
to correct this without having to completely re-install would be most
welcome.

# echo <your-desired-hostname> > /etc/nodename

Ensure a corresponding entry exists in /etc/hosts

2: No screen saver functionality. Files appear to be missing on this
build of opensolaris 10.

Nitpick: there is no such thing as "opensolaris 10".  There is only
"OpenSolaris", which at one time formed the basis of Solaris 10.

3: Realtek97 audio. No Audio. Apparently no drivers loaded. If there is
not already a Solaris driver this is something I would be interested in
working on.
4: JDiskReport appears to be the only GUI tool available to check files
with. JDR freezes up about midway through the scan and gives absolutely
no information about anything. Does anyone use this thing?
5: No code completion pop-up boxes in Netbeans; can't get code to
compile correctly.
6. #pkgchk command generates huge amt. of error messages reporting
checksum discrepancies in /usr/ directory.

That is probably not a good thing.  I would expect some checksum
warnings in /etc or similar dynamic file locations, but most things in
/usr are static.

This experiment may be going a little south, I don't know if I have a
corrupt build and need to download another one or if these problems are
fixable on this machine. I'll keep hammering away at it and would really
appreciate any advice.

"Huge amounts" of checksum warnings for /usr makes me pretty
suspicious.  I once had similar strange pkgchk output; turned out to
be a bad RAM DIMM.

--
Eric Enright
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