help needed on many things

gvsrinivasan · 03-14-2007, 09:30 AM

Hi solaris geeks

I am new to solaris and using the new solaris 10 x86 32 bit edition on my Intel pc

I need help on the following things

1.
How can i know whether my Ethernet card is recognized or not under solaris 10 ?

2.

I need to enable dhcp in my Ethernet to have an internet connection in my Linux/solaris pc from a winxp system

3.

How can i mount and use fat32 partitions in solaris ,when the system is in dual boot with winxp and solaris 10

4.

I need to view all the partitions in my hard drive

i need to put my solaris system in network with other winxp system ,i know samba is there for doing this , but many apps in Linux and solaris does not support saving a work n to a fat32 partition using the samba protocol

I am still a learner regarding solaris os ,so if you find any of above questions as a silly thing , please forgive me

Hoping to hear more from the lq community for my queries

jlliagre · 03-14-2007, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by gvsrinivasan

1. How can i know whether my Ethernet card is recognized or not under solaris 10 ?

Run:

Code:

ifconfig -a plumb
ifconfig -a

and see if your network card is shown (ignore the lo0 interface).

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2.I need to enable dhcp in my Ethernet to have an internet connection in my Linux/solaris pc from a winxp system

Code:

ifconfig xyz0 dhcp start

Replace xyz0 by your interface driver name.

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3. How can i mount and use fat32 partitions in solaris ,when the system is in dual boot with winxp and solaris 10

Something like:

Code:

mount -F  pcfs   /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c /fat32

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4. I need to view all the partitions in my hard drive

Code:

fdisk -v -W - /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0

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i need to put my solaris system in network with other winxp system ,i know samba is there for doing this , but many apps in Linux and solaris does not support saving a work n to a fat32 partition using the samba protocol

Indeed.

Quote:

I am still a learner regarding solaris os ,so if you find any of above questions as a silly thing , please forgive me

No problem, you are welcome.

gvsrinivasan · 03-14-2007, 11:36 PM

I will try out the above things and then will let you know how much progress made through this suggestions