Solaris FAQs and Reference Documents

The gold age of FAQs ended somewhere in 199x with the Usenet marginalization, although some mailing lists like Sun managers managed to survive. Many old document are still available but are not maintained and are of marginal value. Newer documents, if available, can usually be found in the form of blueprints. 

NEWS CONTENTS

Old News ;-)

Solaris Life Cyclc FAQ

[Nov 2, 2004] Some of Solaris FAQs are now locally stored.

• Solaris2/x86/FAQ - Solaris x86 FAQ
  

• comp.unix.admin FAQ
  

• Sun Frequently Asked Questions Index
  • Comp.Unix.Solaris
  • Comp.Sys.Sun.Adm outdated
  • Anonymous FTP Setup
  • open-look-02-deskset
  • fonts-faq/part11 - comp.fonts FAQ: Sun Info
    
• CDE FAQ (Common Desktop Environment) from the comp.unix.cde newsgroup. Maintained by Aditya Talwar. comp.sys.sun.admin FAQ compiled by Rob Montjoy ([email protected]). Mainly covers information for SunOS 4.1.x.
  
• How to disable BREAK on Sun serial ports: A terminal connected to port A and acting as a Sun console can drop the Sun to the prom monitor prompt if you turn off or unplug the terminal. This Cisco field notice gives 3 solutions to disable BREAK on the serial port.
  
• HP-UX/Sun Interoperability Cookbook covers what you need to know in both operating systems on startup, shutdown, swap space, devices, installation, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, Email, Printing, and more. Written by Hewlett-Packard.
  
• NIS+ FAQ compiled by Ray Hiltbrand of Auburn University.
  
• Server OS Technical Comparison.
• Solaris Security FAQ Mostly outdated. Used to be maintained by Peter Galvin, info by Casper Dik, Hal Pomeranz, Michele Crabb and others.
  
• BigAdmin - Solaris OS Hardware Compatibility List
  
• SparcBook FAQ covers hardware, software, accessories, specs and more about the Tadpole SparcBook. Compiled by Hugo van der Kooij, ([email protected]). Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ, by Mark Henderson ([email protected]). Sun Managers FAQ edited by John DiMarco ([email protected]).
  
• Sun CDROM FAQ, maintained by Mike Frisch. Master Sun format.dat, maintained by John DiMarco ([email protected]).
  
• Sun Hardware FAQ covers older Sun models, from the Sun-1 through Sun-4. No longer maintained, but still a useful reference from James W. Birdsall ([email protected]).
  
• Sun Year 2000 Information contains FAQs, documentation, and more on Sun's Year 2000 compliance program. Learn how to get your version of Sun's Operating System and tools year 2000-ready.
  
• Sun FrameBuffer FAQ is loaded with useful info, tools to determine and configure your Sun frame buffer, dual-monitor info, monitor and lots of other video info. Written by David Tong and Sun Microsystems. Mirror sites: http://www.uark.edu/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html, http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/FrameBuffer.html

Recommended Links

• Sun Microsystems - BigAdmin Articles and FAQs This is probably the most actively maintianed list of FAQs. It does not includus many older, but still useful FAQs and reference documents.
• Unix SysAdm Resources FAQs, Patches and Other Info [Sun 1-3]
• Unix Faq Index
• Unix Programming Frequently Asked Questions - Table of Contents
• Solaris Infrequently Asked and Obscure Questions
  amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444idm/ pub/sun/sun-shell-faq.html - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

  CDE FAQ (Common Desktop Environment) from the comp.unix.cde newsgroup. Maintained by Aditya Talwar. comp.sys.sun.admin FAQ compiled by Rob Montjoy ([email protected]). Mainly covers information for SunOS 4.1.x.

  **** supportforum.sun.com - Solaris 8 FAQ

  • Solaris2/FAQ - Solaris 2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1.69 largely outdated

  • Solaris2/x86/FAQ - Solaris x86 FAQ

  • comp.unix.admin FAQ

  • Sun Frequently Asked Questions Index
    • Comp.Unix.Solaris
    • Comp.Sys.Sun.Adm outdated
    • Anonymous FTP Setup
    • open-look-02-deskset
    • fonts-faq/part11 - comp.fonts FAQ: Sun Info
  • Solaris 2.6 Official FAQs includes lists of new features, whitepapers, and more. See also the Solaris Support site from Sun.
  • Solaris Developer Connection has all the latest downloads, code samples, patches, FAQs, technology articles, training information and demos for the Solaris operating environment.
  • Solaris Security FAQ Mostly outdated. Used to be maintained by Peter Galvin, info by Casper Dik, Hal Pomeranz, Michele Crabb and others.
  • SparcBook FAQ covers hardware, software, accessories, specs and more about the Tadpole SparcBook. Compiled by Hugo van der Kooij, ([email protected]). Sun NVRAM/hostid FAQ, by Mark Henderson ([email protected]). Sun Managers FAQ edited by John DiMarco ([email protected]).
  • Sun CDROM FAQ, maintained by Mike Frisch. Master Sun format.dat, maintained by John DiMarco ([email protected]).
  • Sun Hardware FAQ covers older Sun models, from the Sun-1 through Sun-4. No longer maintained, but still a useful reference from James W. Birdsall ([email protected]).
  • Sun Year 2000 Information contains FAQs, documentation, and more on Sun's Year 2000 compliance program. Learn how to get your version of Sun's Operating System and tools year 2000-ready.
  • Sun FrameBuffer FAQ is loaded with useful info, tools to determine and configure your Sun frame buffer, dual-monitor info, monitor and lots of other video info. Written by David Tong and Sun Microsystems. Mirror sites: http://www.uark.edu/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html, http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/FrameBuffer.html
  • Historical Sun Performance is a comparison table showing Sun models from the SS-1 to U-10000 in MHz, cache, benchmarks, and more. See MobileDyne Public Information for more info on PC fdisk partitions and Unix, Solaris x86 installation, Solaris EIDE drivers and BIOS LBA, mounting PC FAT filesystems on Solaris and more.
  • OpenBoot Questions & Answers is good for diagnosing hardware problems, reading device trees, and understanding Sun's OpenBoot (boot prom) in general.
  • The Sun Voyager FAQ has everything you want to know about the hardware and software of this machine.
  • Sun 3/3x Archive warmed our hearts and made us remember the "good ole days". Get all the info for these Motorola 68020- and 68030-based systems. FAQs, part numbers, benchmarks, error codes, patches, and more.
  • Using SPARCPrinter with Ghostscript covers the basics of getting this working on Solaris 2.6.

Solaris

• Unix Questions and Answers
  
• Solaris 9 Operating System Technical FAQs
  
• The mrEriksson-Network solaris 8 FAQ
  
• Solaris Product Line Solaris 7 Operating Environment FAQs
  
• Solaris 2 FAQ - by Casper Dik
  
• Solaris on Intel x86 FAQ - by Dan Anderson
• This posting contains frequently asked questions, with answers, about the Sun Solaris Operating System found in the alt.solaris.x86 and comp.unix.solaris USENET newsgroups.

Administration

• Sun-Managers' Frequently Asked Questions

  This is collection of common questions posted to the sun-managers mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and reduce traffic to the list by providing quick answers to common problems.

• FAQ- Sun Computer Administration Frequently Asked Questions see also FAQ Sun Computer Administration Frequently Asked Questions

  This is a collection of common questions posted to the comp.sys.sun.* hierarchy. Pretty old and was not updated for a while.

Security

• Solaris Security FAQ
  • Original version - by Peter Baer Galvin at SunWorld. Outdated to the extent it is almost useless.
  • Solaris 9 Security FAQ -- Modified version.
    
• [Sun Blueprint, PDF] Solaris Operating Environment Security
  • Solaris Operating Environment Security -- Sun blueprint
  • Solaris� Operating Environment Security -- update for Solaris 8
    
• [Sun Blueprint, PDF] Solaris Operating Environment Network Settings for Security -by Alex Noordergraaf
  • Solaris Operating Environment Network Settings for Security: Updated for Solaris 9 Operating Environment (June 2003)
    -by Alex Noordergraaf
    This article describes network settings available within the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and recommends how to adjust network settings to strengthen the security posture of Solaris OE systems.

    This article updates the original article to include changes for Solaris 9 OE. These additions and modifications are incorporated into an updated "nddconfig" script available from http://www.sun.com/blueprints/tools/. This article is ideal for all levels of expertise.
    

• [Sun Blueprint, PDF] Auditing System Security (May 2003) -by Alex Noodergraaf and Glenn Brunette
  This article describes how to audit (validate) a system's security using the Solaris Security Toolkit software. You can use the information and procedures in this article to maintain an established security profile after hardening. For systems that are already deployed, you can use this information to assess security before hardening.

  This article is the entire sixth chapter of the upcoming Sun BluePrints book, "Securing Systems With the Solaris Security Toolkit", by Alex Noodergraaf and Glenn Brunette (ISBN 0-13-141071-7)
  

• [Sun Blueprint, PDF] Building OpenSSH--Tools and Tradeoffs, Updated for OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 -by Jason Reid

  This article updates the information in the January 2003 Sun BluePrints OnLine article, "Building OpenSSH--Tools and Tradeoffs". This article contains information about gathering the needed components, deciding the compile-time configuration decisions, building the components, and finally assembling OpenSSH. The script file, "Building OpenSSH Tools TAR", provides tools that simplify the packaging and deployment of the OpenSSH tool on the Solaris Operating Environment. This article targets an advanced audience.

• How to install Solaris 2.6//2.7 and have a good host security. ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/jean/solins/solins.html

  Outdated, but some info might still be useful

• Beginner's guide to armoring Solaris See also Guide to armoring Solaris 8

• Armoring Solaris II

Performance Monitoring and Tuning

• Solaris Performance FAQ - by Adrian Cockcroft at SunWorld
• Tuning Solaris 2.x TCP/IP - by Jens-S. Voeckler

OpenBoot / NVRAM / IDPROM

• Sun OpenBoot FAQ Questions and answers on OpenBoot- by Steve Leung at SunWorld

  OpenBoot -- the firmware in the Sun boot PROM -- is an obscure component of any workstation, but it turns out to be pretty important, with some interesting features. Solaris expert Steve Leung of Amdahl uses a Q&A format to reveal the dark magic of an oft-overlooked system every administrator can use. You may not need this information today, but add it to your bookmarks so that the next time you need to diagnose a pesky hardware problem this information's at hand.

• Sun NVRAM / Host ID FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about Sun NVRAM/hostid 1.43 (Mark Henderson)

  Every Sun 3/80, sun4c, sun4u, and sun4m architecture machine contains an NVRAM chip (not to be confused with the NVRAM in Prestoserve). This NVRAM chip stores various configuration parameters (e.g. boot device, amount of RAM to test), maintains the clock, and also contains the IDPROM data, which is composed of the ethernet address, date of manufacture, hostid, a version number, and a checksum.

Hardware & Peripherals

• SparcBook F.A.Q http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hvdkooij/SparcBook-FAQ/sparcbook-faq.html

  Many different help's and howto's on the SparcBook.
  

• Sun Ultra 5 Summary http://www.grina.com/ultra5.html

  This is a summary of my Sun Ultra 5 workstation findings. I've been using an Ultra 5 (a.k.a. Darwin series) since April, 1998, and these are mostly first-hand observations (exceptions are clearly identified.) I do not work for Sun, I do not receive any money from Sun for this page, and this page does not necessarily represent Sun or Sun's views in any way.

• Sun SPARCStation Voyager FAQ http://dodo.bsn.com/BSN/Support/FAQS/Voyager.html

  Everything you need to know about the Voyager.

  Using CD-R or CD-RW drives on an Ultra 10 http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~gerdts/ultra10_cdrecord.shtml

  This document describes how to use CD-R or CD-RW drives on an Ultra 10 running Solaris 7. The process is not all that simple because of a variety of factors ranging from the lack of SCSI support on the Ultra 10 to various problems relating more specifically to the default configuration of Solaris.

• PC Card FAQ by David
• Sun Hardware Reference - by James W. Birdsall
• Sun CD-ROM FAQ - by Mike Frisch
• Sun Frame Buffer FAQ - by David Tong
• Sun Frame Buffer History FAQ - by David Tong
• Sun Color Map FAQ - by David Tong
• Using a ZIP drive on a Sun workstation - from Iomega
• Using a JAZ drive on a Sun workstation - from Iomega
• Using a CD-RW drive with an Ultra 10 - by Mike Gerdts
• Solaris 2.x PC Card FAQ - PCMCIA card information

X Windows

• X FAQ
• X Performance FAQ - by Art Mulder
• CDE (Common Desktop Environment) FAQ - by Aditya Talwar

Networking

See Blueprints for more up-to-date information.

• Solaris 2.x FAQ - Networking Frequently asked Questions/Answers on Solaris 2.x networking

  Outdated

• Sun TCP/IP FAQ
  This Tip Sheet documents a wide variety of information concerning TCP/IP. It is mainly concerned with information on the tuning options available in Sun TCP/IP, as well as a few of the most common questions. Unless you are doing really low level work with TCP/IP, this Tip Sheet probably will not be of too much use to you. However, if you are doing low level work, this Tip Sheet will give you some ideas on what you can do with Sun's TCP.
  
• Sun Routing FAQ / Tip Sheet

  This PSD documents a wide variety of information concerning routing as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to routing, and as a guide to the most common problems. Routing can be a very complex subject, and this PSD can really only skim the surface of it. If you are setting up a complex routing environment, you will probably also want to refer to the more complete references listed in Section 7.0. For this discussion of routing, an understanding is needed of various aspects of ROUTING, as well as NETMASKS. These are both covered below. Solaris in.routed supports RIPv1 ( rip version 1). RIPv2 is available in gated, gated is not SUPPORTED
  

• Tuning your Solaris 2.x TCP/IP stack http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/voeckler/tune/EN/tune.html

  Outdated How to tune TCP/IP under Solaris

DNS / NIS / NIS+

• DNS PSD-FAQ See also Setting up a basic DNS server for a domain

  This Tip Sheet documents a wide variety of information concerning DNS, as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to DNS, and as a guide to the most common problems.

• NIS+ FAQ NIS+ Frequently Asked Questions

  This document is archived at: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html
  Date: July 30, 1999

• NIS FAQ

  This PSD documents a wide variety of information concerning NIS as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to NIS, and as a guide to the most common problems. There are many more complete references to NIS, a few of which are noted in section 7.0. In this document, the terms YP and NIS should be understood to be interchangeable. YP was the original name for the information service now known as NIS. NIS/YP is not the same thing as NIS+. The following terms are crucial for an understanding of NIS: A NIS SERVER is a machine which responds to requests for NIS service. The MASTER server actually contains all of the files which the NIS maps are built from, while the SLAVE servers just contain copies of those maps. The YPSERV daemon is run on all servers. It is what answers NIS requests. YPXFRD is usually run on the master server, to speed up transfers to the slaves. A NIS CLIENT is a machine which is allowed to access the NIS maps. The YPBIND daemon takes care of making these requests. All of NIS is bundled with SunOS. However, on Solaris versions from 2.0 up to 2.5.1, the bundled software only allows machines to be set up as NIS clients (Solaris 2.6 now has the NIS server side software back in it). If you want to set up a pre-2.6 Solaris machine as a NIS server you will need to download or purchase NSKIT. Please contact your local Sun sales office. A seperate PSD exists for NSKIT specific issues if you are running into problems involving the NSKIT, you should request the NSKIT PSD from SunService. For all intents and purposes NSKIT on Solaris 2.x is administered the same as NIS on SunOS 4.1.x except for some minor differences such as directory locations and source and Makefile differences 2.0 Debugging NIS

NFS / Automounter

• NFS FAQ See also Linux NFS faq

  This Tip Sheet documents a wide variety of information concerning NFS, as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to NFS and as a guide to the most common problems.

• AutoMounter FAQ This Tip Sheet documents a wide variety of information concerning the automounter, as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to the automounter, and as a guide to the most common problems.

Sendmail / Mail Transfer Agents

• Sun Sendmail FAQ / Tip Sheet
  This PSD documents a wide variety of information concerning Sendmail, as implemented in the SunOS and Solaris operating systems. It is intended as both an introduction to Sendmail, and as a guide to the most common problems.
• PostFix - by Wietse Venema

Printing

SunSolve Document srdb-10143 Solaris printing--most frequently asked questions

Printing under Unix

1999 SUMMARY printing under Solaris 2.7

HOW-TO configure printer supported by Ghostscript as a postscript printer under Solaris

Migration and Porting

• Solaris Migration Information - SunOS 4 to Solaris 2, and Competitive Migrations
• Solaris Porting Hints - porting BSD/Solaris 1 apps to Solaris 2

Linux

• Dual boot Linux and Solaris http://www.sun.com/software/linux/docs/dual_boot.html

  Sun posted to their website a short document on how to dual boot Solaris and Linux on an x86 box.

Legacy

Frequently-asked questions about the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface.
http://www.info.polymtl.ca/ada2/coyote/www/open-look/

OPEN LOOK is a specification of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A GUI determines the `look and feel' of a system -- the shape of windows, buttons and scroll-bars, how you resize things, how you edit files, etc.

Solaris Y2K Information http://www.sun.com/y2000

Year 2000 compatability information from Sun.

The Sun Hardware Reference 1.10 (James W. Birdsall)
http://sun-www.picarefy.com/sun-www/

This primary focus of this document is to cover older Sun-badged hardware in detail sufficient to be useful to buyers and collectors of used Sun hardware, much of which comes without documentation. [Note: this was last updated 11/24/1995]

Command Conversion Chart 4.x to 5.x
http://temp.solarisguide.com/faqs/commands.html

This list is a summary of SunOS 4.x commands and their SunOS 5.x counterparts, if any. This was [adapted] from the Sun Admigration package, and seems to be legal according to the license therein.

Broken Links

Sun SPARC Recently Asked Questions http://access1.sun.com/raqs/sparccal.html

Sun answers uncommon questions about Sun products.

Random Findings

• OpenGL Developer FAQ
• OpenGL Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) [1-3]
• Backup and Restore FAQ
• Solstice Disksuite FAQ

http://meltdown.under-ground.com/~revolver/laptop/

Some useful information and resources for sparc laptops.

How to get PPP running between Windows and Solaris 2.x (Dave Brillhart)
http://www.rdr.com/~ces/unix_ref/ppp_cookbook.html

These instructions describe a basic "point-to-point" static IP setup. More advanced configurations are available, but [Dave] found this to be adequate. He only included the Sun workstation side in this document, but he plans to add the PC side sometime this week or next.

Frequently-asked questions about the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface.
http://temp.solarisguide.com/faqs/openlook.html

OPEN LOOK is a specification of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A GUI determines the `look and feel' of a system -- the shape of windows, buttons and scroll-bars, how you resize things, how you edit files, etc.

NIS+ Frequently Asked Questions 1.1.6 (Ray W. Hiltbrand)
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html

NIS+ stands for Network Information Service Plus. It was designed to replace NIS, and is a default naming service for Solaris. NIS+ can provide limited support to NIS clients via a YP-compatibility mode. NIS+ was mainly designed to address problems that NIS cannot address.

Celeste's Tutorial on Solaris 2.x Modems & Terminals 1.10
http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/tutorials.html

This document is a tutorial that will teach you everything you should need to know about connecting asynchronous modems and terminals to a Sun SPARC or x86 workstation under Sun's Solaris 2.0-2.6. It does not cover the specifics of setting up PPP, nor Sun's 4.x releases.

How do I install my Zip Drive on a Sun Workstation? R.003 (Iomega Corp.) http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2019.html

The word from Iomega on how to install a zip drive on a SunOS 4 or SunOS 5 system.

Frame Buffer FAQ (David Tong) http://c3-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com/FrameBuffer.html

Information on Sun Frame Buffers last update on march 13, 1998.

Colormap FAQ (David Tong) http://c3-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com/ColormapFAQ.html

Extensive information about the Sun colormap. Includes a section on how to eliminate colormap flashing and XView examples.

Sun CD-ROM FAQ (Mike Frisch) http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq

Everything you wanted to know about Sun CDROM drives. Includes booting from non-sun CDs and more. Some references to specific CDROMs are slightly outdated.

CDE FAQ 1.8 (Aditya Talwar) http://www.webslingerz.com/sburnett/cde/index.html

This FAQ will attempt to provide answers to overcome day-to-day snafus encountered while using CDE desktop.

Solaris2/FAQ 1.65 http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2

This is (in the opinion of many) the most helpfull FAQ for Solaris admins. It covers many topics and has very recent information. If you have a question, this is the first place to check for an answer.

Sun SPARC Rarely Asked Questions http://access1.sun.com/raqs/sparccal.html

Sun answers uncommon questions about Sun products.

The Sun Hardware Reference 1.10 (James W. Birdsall) http://sun-www.picarefy.com/sun-www/

This primary focus of this document is to cover older Sun-badged hardware in detail sufficient to be useful to buyers and collectors of used Sun hardware, much of which comes without documentation. [Note: this was last updated 11/24/1995]

TADPOLE Tidbits 'n RDI Ramblings
http://meltdown.under-ground.com/~revolver/laptop/

Some useful information and resources for sparc laptops.

Solaris x86 FAQ 1.6 (Dan Anderson)
http://dan.carlsbad.ca.us/faqs/s86faq.html

This posting contains frequently asked questions, with answers, about the Sun Solaris 2 x86 Operating System found in the alt.solaris.x86 and comp.unix.solaris USENET newsgroups.

How to get PPP running between Windows and Solaris 2.x (Dave Brillhart)
http://www.solarisguide.com/faq/ppp-windows-sun.html

These instructions describe a basic "point-to-point" static IP setup. More advanced configurations are available, but [Dave] found this to be adequate. He only included the Sun workstation side in this document, but he plans to add the PC side sometime this week or next.

Questions and answers on OpenBoot (Steve Leung)
http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-1995/swol-10-openboot.html

OpenBoot -- the firmware in the Sun boot PROM -- is an obscure component of any workstation, but it turns out to be pretty important, with some interesting features. Solaris expert Steve Leung of Amdahl uses a Q&A format to reveal the dark magic of an oft-overlooked system every administrator can use. You may not need this information today, but add it to your bookmarks so that the next time you need to diagnose a pesky hardware problem this information's at hand.

Frequently Asked Questions about Sun NVRAM/hostid 1.43 (Mark Henderson)
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Every Sun 3/80, sun4c, sun4u, and sun4m architecture machine contains an NVRAM chip (not to be confused with the NVRAM in Prestoserve). This NVRAM chip stores various configuration parameters (e.g. boot device, amount of RAM to test), maintains the clock, and also contains the IDPROM data, which is composed of the ethernet address, date of manufacture, hostid, a version number, and a checksum.

NIS+ Frequently Asked Questions 1.1.6 (Ray W. Hiltbrand)
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/rayh/solaris/NIS+_FAQ.html

NIS+ stands for Network Information Service Plus. It was designed to replace NIS, and is a default naming service for Solaris. NIS+ can provide limited support to NIS clients via a YP-compatibility mode. NIS+ was mainly designed to address problems that NIS cannot address.

Celeste's Tutorial on Solaris 2.x Modems & Terminals 1.10
http://www.stokely.com/unix.serial.port.resources/tutorials.html

This document is a tutorial that will teach you everything you should need to know about connecting asynchronous modems and terminals to a Sun SPARC or x86 workstation under Sun's Solaris 2.0-2.6. It does not cover the specifics of setting up PPP, nor Sun's 4.x releases.

How do I install my Zip Drive on a Sun Workstation? R.003 (Iomega Corp.)
http://www.iomega.com/support/techs/zip/2019.html

The word from Iomega on how to install a zip drive on a SunOS 4 or SunOS 5 system.

Frame Buffer FAQ (David Tong)
http://c3-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com/FrameBuffer.html

Information on Sun Frame Buffers last update on march 13, 1998.

Command Conversion Chart 4.x to 5.x
http://www.solarisguide.com/faq/commands.html

This list is a summary of SunOS 4.x commands and their SunOS 5.x counterparts, if any. This was [adapted] from the Sun Admigration package, and seems to be legal according to the license therein.

Colormap FAQ (David Tong)
http://c3-a.snvl1.sfba.home.com/ColormapFAQ.html

Extensive information about the Sun colormap. Includes a section on how to eliminate colormap flashing and XView examples.

Sun CD-ROM FAQ (Mike Frisch)
http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq

Everything you wanted to know about Sun CDROM drives. Includes booting from non-sun CDs and more. Some references to specific CDROMs are slightly outdated.

CDE FAQ 1.8 (Aditya Talwar)
http://www.webslingerz.com/sburnett/cde/index.html

This FAQ will attempt to provide answers to overcome day-to-day snafus encountered while using CDE desktop.

Solaris2/FAQ 1.65
http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2

This is (in the opinion of many) the most helpfull FAQ for Solaris admins. It covers many topics and has very recent information. If you have a question, this is the first place to check for an answer.

Etc

Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

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