Solaris 8 build document

A very good document on Solaris 8 build , Can also be used to build Solaris 10 with little change.

Download the following Solaris 8 Build Doc

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Using Solaris Live Upgrade

The lucreate command is part of a suite of commands that make up the Live Upgrade feature of the Solaris Operating environment.
Example:
# lucreate -n newsystem-new -c solaris10 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0:ufs -m -:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s1:swap \-m /var:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s5:ufs -m /usr:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6:ufs -m /opt:/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7:ufs \
-l /var/log/lucreate.err -o /var/log/lucreate.log

BE: Boot Environment
-n: The name of the BE to be created. BE must be unique [...]

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How to solve library dependency errors in Solaris using pkg-get tool

There are many times with we get .so.2 linked library error, this is because of the missing package that provides the shared library files. To find out with package provides which shared libraries.
Go to the following link, in the search field select Provides and give library file name
http://rpm.rutgers.edu/rpm2php/?searchby=provides&searchval=libiconv.so.2
The search will provide you package name to [...]

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Solaris pkg-get tool

pkg-get tool will automatically download the appropriate version for your architecture and OS revision and install the package in Solaris OS just like apt-get and yum in Debian and Red hat systems respectively.
Download
http://sunfreeware.com/pkg-get.html
# pkg-getpkg-get SCCS rev @(#) pkg-get 1.56.1.2@(#)from http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/
pkg-get is used to install free software packagespkg-getNeed one of ‘install’, ‘upgrade’, ‘available’,’compare’  ‘-i|install’   installs a [...]

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Enabling and disabling IP forwarding in Solaris 10

In Soloaris 10 routeadm command and the ifconfig command can be used instead of the ndd command to set IP forwarding. The main advantages are

The settings are persistent across reboots.
The new ifconfig  router and – router commands can be placed in the /etc/hostname.interfaces files, along with other ifconfig commands that are run when the interface [...]

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