Sunday, January 30, 2005
It Begins
Welcome. It remains to be seen how faithful I will be to this forum, but let's give this a whirl and see what happens.
Currently there are two projects that I'm currently investing time into. Solaris 10, and NetApp.
On the Solaris 10 front, I downloaded the ISOs from Sun Friday night finally. I actually pulled both the Sparc and x86 because at home I have a SunBlade 150. But uptime on that box says 438 days, so I can't bring myself to shutting down that box to load up Solaris 10.
root@spic # uptime
5:32pm up 438 day(s), 7:20, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.21, 0.20
root@spic #
Which leaves me with "limpy". Limpy is a Compaq Presario 5600 series box I custom ordered from Best Buy like in 1998. This was the first desktop computer I ever purchased for home use. Up to that point I had relied on company issued technology (except for way back in i think 1994 when I spend $3,000 of my own money on a 486 DX2/66 laptop for work use - what can I say I was kinda ahead of the times, ahead of my companies desire to equip me with a laptop that is)
This is a Presario running an Intel P2 450MHz with 128MB of ram. I know it's got an 80GB hard drive because I replaced the 20GB drive it came with about 2 years ago when I was messing with RedHat.
I have Solaris 10 build 72 for x86 up and running no problems (some nonrecoverable SCSI read errors not withstanding.. SCSI? Oh really?) But I can't telnet to it. I'm learning that in Solaris 10 there's the nifty new commands svcadm and inetadm. I can't figure out how to get my box setup so I can telnet to it. So I posted my first ever question to the sun support forums site. We'll see what response that gets.
On the NetApp side, you'll have to stay tuned. I've been fighting with these guys for years now. I work with my customers on a proper disk solution, then these crazy NetAPp guys parachute in and mess it all up.
But the Koolaid has begun to flow, and I'm slowly turning into a believer. Stay tuned.
-jason
