[Sunhelp] Installation Information Needed

[Fletcher, Joe]

Hi

Just done almost the same thing so I can give you a couple of pointers. You
didn't say which version of Solaris you are using. If it's 8 you get
disksuite thrown in for free so I'd suggest using two internal disks for the
o/s and mirror them. The A1000 has a few gotchas. Do you have any idea how
you want to carve it up ie how many disks do you have, RAID level etc? Again
if you are using SOlaris 8 you MUST get Raid manager 6.2 plus patches for it
to work.
Also if you want more than 8 LUNs from the box there is another fix required
before the system will see units 9 upwards. Are you using Veritas or
anything similar?

Feel free to send any questions my way.

Cheers

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby Sardana [mailto:sardana at obsoft.com]
Sent: 29 September 2000 04:10
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [Sunhelp] Installation Information Needed


Greetings:

Being in a startup, I have been assigned the task to install the operating
system, networking, NIS+ etc on the following:

a. E220R
b. E420R

and to connect them to A1000 and an autoloader tape drive.

Primarily, the E220R will be used as a network server to serve the A1000 via
NFS and the E420R will be served as the application server.

What I am seeking is the answers to the following:

a. What optimal/recommended configurations are recommended to install the OS
on each of these machines. Partition information, network settings, NIS+
etc?

b. What key gotchas to watch out for?

c. A trail sheet as to approach this in a systematic fashion.

I have installed Solaris OS on several Sparc/Ultra boxes so am familiar with
the basics. But have never performed NIS+ or NFS where the drives are
visible on
several clients running linux and information like host,password etc. is
visibile throughout the network.

Any information on this is appreciated.

Regards,

Bobby Sardana.
sardana at obsoft.com

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