Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question (Nick Pettefar)

From: Grant Cullen (grant.cullen_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/14/03

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    In the past going from one environment to another I used tar. Ensure that
    the no hardware compression is used. Compress or gzip should be compatible.

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    Today's Topics:

       1. Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question (Nick Pettefar)
       2. Solaris CD's packages question. (Andres Rojas)
       3. Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question -2 (Nick Pettefar)
       4. SUMMARY: Problems jumpstarting v210 servers (John Marrett)
       5. StarOffce 6.0 nightmare (Steve Maher)
       6. FOLLOWUP: Netra X1: How to break the LOM prompt in order to
          get into (Debbie Tropiano)
       7. SUMMARY: Urgent ! Ultra 1 with with internal disk of E250
          not working (Angel Alejandro Vega Soto)
       8. telnet connectivity slow (sunil kumar.a.s)
       9. Solaris 9 Routing problem (Douglas Tedcastle)
      10. bus error (John Corcoran)
      11. installing SUNWvts 4.0 (Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Shukili)

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    Message: 1
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:32:19 +0200 (MEST)
    From: Nick Pettefar <Nick@Pettefar.com>
    Subject: Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309121827430.497-100000@st2.hq.eso.org>
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

    Hi, I don't know if anyone knows the answer to this but here goes...

    I have a user that's leaving and wants to take 38gb of data and
    reports with her to her new job. That's OK but they are using
    Linux and we have Solaris here. They have DDS4 tape drives and
    so do we. Will x86 Linux read tapes made by /usr/ccs/bin/dump or
    /usr/sbin/ufsdump from Solaris 8 SPARC? I want to re-use her
    hard drives after she has left so I need to know that her data
    will be transportable.

    Regards,

    Nick

    Nick Pettefar Nick@Pettefar.com
    Tel. +49 1728 176 804 DoD 1069 MAG 73516 ZZ-R1100

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    Message: 2
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:47:59 -0400
    From: "Andres Rojas" <arojasm@adexus.cl>
    Subject: Solaris CD's packages question.
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <OF3E651F2B.78965491-ON84256D9F.005BD255@adexus.cl>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

    Dear Managers.

    I have two plastic folders with Solaris 8. One of them is dated to March
    2000 and contains 4 CD's. On the other hand I have one for Feb 2002 and
    contains 6 CD's. Would anybody please tell me if the Mar 2000 CD's has
    actually 4 CD's? I couldn't find anything in the Sun's pages regarding
    this.

    Many thanks in advance,

    - Andres.

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    Message: 3
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:52:15 +0200 (MEST)
    From: Nick Pettefar <Nick@Pettefar.com>
    Subject: Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question -2
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309121850390.23565-100000@st2.hq.eso.org>
    Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

    I need to add that I cannot use tar (as far as I know) because
    the data is larger than one tape.

    Regards,

    Nick

    Nick Pettefar Nick@Pettefar.com
    Tel. +49 1728 176 804 DoD 1069 MAG 73516 ZZ-R1100

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:32:19 +0200 (MEST)
    From: Nick Pettefar <Nick@Pettefar.com>
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Subject: Solaris 8 to Linux dump compatibility question

    Hi, I don't know if anyone knows the answer to this but here goes...

    I have a user that's leaving and wants to take 38gb of data and
    reports with her to her new job. That's OK but they are using
    Linux and we have Solaris here. They have DDS4 tape drives and
    so do we. Will x86 Linux read tapes made by /usr/ccs/bin/dump or
    /usr/sbin/ufsdump from Solaris 8 SPARC? I want to re-use her
    hard drives after she has left so I need to know that her data
    will be transportable.

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    Message: 4
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:44:50 -0400
    From: John Marrett <jmarrett@mediagrif.com>
    Subject: SUMMARY: Problems jumpstarting v210 servers
    To: "'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
    Message-ID:
            <B5B1F1162663D411BB8000508B691B2006077036@stimxch1.dev.mediagrif.com>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

    Thanks to Ole Morten Xian for his help.

    The easy solution is to obtain Solaris 8 2002/12 or 2003/05.

    Here is the hard way (not completely tested):

    You will need to patch the boot image first; Assuming Solaris 8 2002/02 is
    installed in /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_2002-02/

    patchadd -C /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_2002-02/Solaris_8/Tools/Boot <patch
    number> using the list below in order. Some of these patches are contract
    patches not available to customers w/o sunsolve accounts...

    111111-03
    112396-02
    108987-13
    108528-23
    111883-18
    108974-33
    113684-04
    113680-03
    110460-30
    113679-05
    113682-02
    109889-06
    109888-24
    113683-02
    113681-02
    111794-02 (May fail)
    112249-04 (May fail)

    The above step will work. The following step *should* work. I have never
    tried it and I can't promise that it will work or produce a stable system:

    After this you will need to write a finish script that will install the same
    set of patches to the newly installed server. Use the same order of patch
    installation and a patchadd command of:

    patchadd -R /a <patch number>

    I was you though, I would get a copy of one of the two supported Solaris 8
    releases...

    -JohnF

    -----Ole Morten's Response-----

    Hello,

    I have jumpstarted 210 and 240 using Solaris 8 05/03 and Solaris 9 04/03, in

    both cases no patches were required.

    Solaris 8 05/03 is an OEM thing avialable from somewhere under
    http://www.sun.com/service/online/

    regards,
    Ole Morten Xian

    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Marrett
    Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:23 AM
    To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
    Subject: Problems jumpstarting v210 servers

    I am attempting to jumpstart some new V210 servers. I initially had problems
    with the boot image not recognizing the system type, I have resolved these
    by adding the following patches as per the instructions in patch :

    111111-03
    112396-02
    108987-13
    108528-23
    111883-18
    108974-33
    113684-04
    113680-03
    110460-30
    113679-05
    113682-02
    109889-06
    109888-24
    113683-02
    113681-02

    Sunsolve suggested the installation of the two following patches but the
    modules they patched were not installed in the boot image.

    111794-02 Packages not installed
    112249-04 Packages not installed

    After jumpstarting the installed system does not boot, however I have not
    installed the above patches during my install, they have only been added to
    the boot image. I plan to add these patches and the new version of the lom
    package: Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) 1.1 [
    http://jsecom16a.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet?StoreId=8&PartDetailId=ALOM-
    1.0-G-F&TransactionId=try&LMLoadBalanced= ].

    I wondered if anyone else on the list has installed 210 systems using a
    jumpstart server and if they would have any suggestions on patches or
    packages I might require.

    Thanks for your help,

    -JohnF

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    Message: 5
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:34:00 -0400
    From: "Steve Maher" <steve@marzconsulting.com>
    Subject: StarOffce 6.0 nightmare
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <20030912193057.M4046@marzconsulting.com>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

    All,

    # E420R's all running Solaris 9 fully patched. 300 user population access
    via
    SunRay1.3. All was working well till yesteray when StarOffice stopped
    working.
    Patching top StarOffice 6 patch level 3 had no effect. Comes up but crashes
    with a box that says "An unrecoverable error has occured. Modified files
    will
    be save and shoulbe be recoverable at program restart".

    Any ideas on what could be causing this ?

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    Message: 6
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:57:12 -0500 (CDT)
    From: Debbie Tropiano <debbie@icus.com>
    Subject: FOLLOWUP: Netra X1: How to break the LOM prompt in order to
            get into
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Cc: Debbie Tropiano <debbie@icus.com>
    Message-ID: <200309122257.h8CMvCGp022351@enterprise.icus.com>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

    Hello -

    I was at the same state as Tony but on a Netra T1 AC200,
    but have since gotten in to LOM via the JP13-14 jumper and
    gotten past the "console not shared" thing by using the -u
    option to bootmode:
            lom> bootmode -u
            lom> reset
            power cycle the netra
            do the jumper
            lom> console

    But I still have LOM user logins that I'd like to reset.
    Right now all I get for usershow is:
            1: [inaccessible]
            2: [inaccessible]
            3: [inaccessible]
            4: [inaccessible]

    I've tried re-installing the LOM package, but that didn't help.
    Any help to reset these user accounts would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Debbie

    Forwarded message:
    > From: Tony Magtalas <ttk67@yahoo.com>
    > Subject: Netra X1: How to break the LOM prompt in order to get into
    > prompt in Netra X1
    > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
    >
    > Hi there,
    >
    > I am having problems with a couple of old Netra X1:
    >
    > 1. When I power up the Netra, it automatically ask me
    > for the LOM password.
    > I don't know the LOM password.
    > It keeps saying:
    >
    > LOMlite console
    > Please login
    >
    > Does anybody know how to bypass this password prompt;
    > ie bypass the LOM password prompt to get right into
    > the lom> mode. or even ok> prompt.
    > When I tried to jumper JP13-14, it will bypass the
    > password prompt but I can't do anything else.
    > ie. I can "poweron" but when I tried to "break" to
    > get into ok> mode, it said "console not shared"
    > Swapping smart card, or remove the battery won't work
    > either.
    >...

    --
    + Debbie Tropiano -- debbie@icus.com -- http://www.icus.com/personal.html  +
    | Mommy to   Nathan b: 8/17/1995,   ^Sara^ b: 10/25/2000 d: 11/7/2000   &  |
    | Leah b: 10/17/2001 a: 9/26/2002 "God shows His opposition to cancer and  |
    | birth defects, not by eliminating them or making them happen only to bad |
    | people (He can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors  |
    + to ease the burden and to fill the emptiness."     -- Harold S. Kushner  +
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    Message: 7
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:35:27 -0500
    From: Angel Alejandro Vega Soto <alejandro.vega@tecinfocon.com.mx>
    Subject: SUMMARY:  Urgent ! Ultra 1 with with internal disk of E250
    	not working
    To: Sunmanagers <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
    Message-ID: <1063413327.1240.5.camel@aldebaran.tic.com.mx>
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Hello, at the end another device was using the target 0 of the first
    controllr, this machine is connected to a special medical device.
    A lot of you offer some help, but moving the disk to the c0t1 slot and
    change the entries in /etc/vfstab worked like a charm.
    Thanks to all who reply ! you know who you are.
    --
    Angel Alejandro Vega Soto			Gerente de Servicio
    Tecnologia Informatica y Consultoria		Tel: 55-23-19-75
    alejandro.vega@tecinfocon.com.mx		Fax: 55-36-95-28
    ------------------------------
    Message: 8
    Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:12:27 -0700 (PDT)
    From: "sunil kumar.a.s" <sunragh@yahoo.com>
    Subject: telnet connectivity slow
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <20030913071227.8997.qmail@web9805.mail.yahoo.com>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    Dear sirs,
    Thanks for the help extended for my previous quiery regarding slow telnet
    connectivity.
    Server=sun solaris 7 sparc 64 bit,
    has 3 NFS mounts from 2 servers.
    NO DNS OR NIS is configured on this server.One web application is running on
    this server.
    When i telnet  immediately  get the login prompt and the passwd promt after
    i enter my user name. The server is taking 2-3 minutes to authenticate my
    passwd and then i get my $ prompt.
    (etc/nssswith.conf file is perfect).
    Please suggest me what can be done so that i can get the connection fast.
    Thanks in advance
    sunil
    Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
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    Message: 9
    Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:59:54 +0100
    From: "Douglas Tedcastle" <douglas.tedcastle@virgin.net>
    Subject: Solaris 9 Routing problem
    To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
    Message-ID: <00fc01c379e6$2d73ab20$9384fc3e@silver>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    I've got a routing problem
    Network is as follows:
    192.168.0.2 (Windows XP Pro PC "silver", default gateway 192.168.0.1)
       |
     100Mb switch
       |
    192.168.0.1 (hme0 100Mb interface on Sparc5 "blue")
       |
    10.0.0.1 (le0 on blue)
       |
    10.0.0.138 (adsl router "adsl")
    Sparc 5 is running Solaris9 08/03
    Machine is configured as a router (it says so at startup)
    and has ip_forwaring enabled on both interfaces (checked with netstat
    -s)
    Relevant outputs:
    # ifconfig -a
    lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
            inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
    hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index
    2
            inet 192.168.0.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
            ether 8:0:20:78:6a:6c
    le0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
            inet 10.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
            ether 8:0:20:78:6a:6c
    #
    # cat /etc/hosts
    127.0.0.1       localhost
    # 192 network (internal)
    192.168.0.1     blue    loghost         # hme0 100Mb interface
    192.168.0.2     silver                  # Windows XP PC
    #
    # 10 network (external)
    10.0.0.1        red                     # le0 onboard interface
    10.0.0.138      adsl                    # ADSL router connected to
    internet
    # netstat -rn
    Routing Table: IPv4
      Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface
    -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
    192.168.0.0          192.168.0.1          U         1      2  hme0
    10.0.0.0             10.0.0.1             U         1      2  le0
    224.0.0.0            192.168.0.1          U         1      0  hme0
    127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1            UH        1      4  lo0
    #
    #
    # arp -a
    Net to Media Table: IPv4
    Device   IP Address               Mask      Flags   Phys Addr
    ------ -------------------- --------------- ----- ---------------
    hme0   silver               255.255.255.255       00:02:44:13:1e:e8
    le0    SpeedTouch.lan       255.255.255.255       00:90:d0:01:76:c9
    le0    red                  255.255.255.255 SP    08:00:20:78:6a:6c
    hme0   blue                 255.255.255.255 SP    08:00:20:78:6a:6c
    le0    224.0.0.0            240.0.0.0       SM    01:00:5e:00:00:00
    hme0   224.0.0.0            240.0.0.0       SM    01:00:5e:00:00:00
    Pinging stuff from the Sun:
    # ping 192.168.0.2
    192.168.0.2 is alive
    # ping 10.0.0.138
    10.0.0.138 is alive
    The problem is, from the Windows box, 192.168.0.2, I am unable to
    ping the router 10.0.0.138. I am able to ping both interfaces on the
    Sun, however. Doing a traceroute from 192.168.0.2 to 10.0.0.138 hangs
    after 192.168.0.1
    Running Ethereal on le0 while pinging 10.0.0.138 from the Windows box, I
    can see the ADSL router doing an arp request for 192.168.0.2 and not
    getting any answer.
    Tried adding the MAC address for the Windows box onto the ADSL router
    but it didn't make any difference.
    Theories:
    1. Is it something to do with the MAC addresses on the Sun network
    interfaces being the same. Don't think its this as have tried changing
    one of them, didn't make any difference
    2. Does the Sun need to do the arp proxy reply for the Windows box?
    3. Although the Sparc should be passing the traffic in both directions,
    the evidence seems to say its not.
    Any ideas?
    ------------------------------
    Message: 10
    Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 07:40:19 -0400
    From: "John Corcoran" <JCorcoran@taxware.com>
    Subject: bus error
    To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
    Message-ID: <C6D51F84F04F4B40B2800EE8D286CA18292937@EVS.taxware.net>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
    I just restored a ultra 5 with solaris 8 operating system.
    Logged in as root
    # >passwd johnc
    New Password:
    Re-enter new Password:
    Bus Error
    can any body help me ?
    Best Regards,
    John  Corcoran
    Phone: 978-741-9126
    jcorcoran@taxware.com
    Unix System Administrator
     <<ole0.bmp>>
    [demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of
    ole0.bmp]
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    Message: 11
    Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:09:15 +0400
    From: Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Shukili
    	<abdulkarim@muscat.oilfield.slb.com>
    Subject: installing SUNWvts 4.0
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030913160617.022d43a0@163.183.5.244>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
    Managers,
      I just want to know how I can install SUNWvts 4.0, I just downloaded from
    sun as tar file, I untar it then I have this four files/dirc
    -rwxrwxr-x   1 85158    15         12610 Dec  9  1999 pkgmap
    drwxrwxr-x   6 85158    15           512 Dec  9  1999 reloc
    -rw-rw-r--   1 85158    15           508 Dec  9  1999 pkginfo
    drwxrwxr-x   2 85158    15           512 Dec  9  1999 install
    I don't know how I can install this ?? pkgadd will not work since there's
    no formatted pkg to install ? anyone have done the installation, I'm using
    solaris 8 .
    Regards,
    Abdulkarim
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