Date: Sat, 18 May 96 08:46:07 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V9 #17 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 18 May 96 Volume 9 : Issue 17 Today's Topics: Anyone has the wonderful Solaris 2.x "lp" running? Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOS (2 msgs) SunOS and Solaris on IPX +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:17:43 -0400 From: biggers@gooey.saiph.com (Mark R. Biggers) Subject: Anyone has the wonderful Solaris 2.x "lp" running? To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hello, Has anyone actually succeeded in getting the Solaris "lp" service talking to a printer on their 2.4/2.5 Solaris SPARC system? I just upgraded to 2.5, and as with 2.4, am almost ready to re-install the "Berkeley lpr" port, after some fiddling with Admintool and lpblah commands. Berk lpr has its own set of bugs on Solaris, but doesn't have the complicated mess of commands and dirs that "lp" does. I just want to hook my NEC PS laser printer to /dev/term/b, and go. Berk lpr is that simple to do (see Solaris FAQ). Here's my good old "lpr" /etc/printcap entry. Works fine, since SunOS days (with exception of changing the device file): # This is a sample of printcap entries used by various printers/plotters # # $Header: /home/kroot/.adm/RCS/printcap,v 1.3 1995/12/01 13:25:28 kroot Exp $ # You GOTTA open the printer device (r)ead(w)rite for PostScript handshake! # lp|ps|general PS printer setup:\ :lp=/dev/term/b:\ :br#19200:ms=-isig,igncr,cstopb,-echok,ixon,-ixany:\ :rw:sf:sh:mx#0:\ :fc#0177777:fs#003:\ :lf=/dev/console: \ :if=/usr/local/lib/psif: 2.5 Solaris is a great improvement, but lp still sucks, IMHO. ----mark [Mark, I've got lp running to a networked Apple LaserWriter IInt. If you are] [printing to a postscript printer, lp includes the filters you need for file] [conversion and communication. The book, "SunSoft Solaris 2.* for Managers ] [and Administrators" has a description of getting a postscript printer to ] [work on a directly connected port. NB: I am one of the authors of the book ] [so I'm biased towards it. Nemeth's book, "UNIX System Adminstration ] [Handbook" also covers lp. My book is aimed at beginners, Nemeth's at more ] [advanced folks. If you can, take a look at both and see which one suits ] [you. --ddm] - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 10:53:14 -0700 (PDT) From: spach@xor.lax.primenet.com (Stephen Anspach) Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > ...just bought a 4Gb Seagate Baracuda for his SPARC. [...] He seems to be > limited to 2Gb... Yes, that's correct. SunOS can only address a partition <= 2GB, but I believe this is remedied in SunOS5.5, or is slated for 5.6 (wish I could remember which...). > is there a patch or a work around that will let him use all of the disk? Patch, no. It's a limitation of the OS. Workaround, yes. I use Online (now Solstice) Disksuite to concat/stripe multiple partitions into one large metadevice. Works well for me. - Steve - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 May 96 22:10:05 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOS To: lmclnfr@lmc.ericsson.se > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:35:43 -0400 > From: Lyndon Fletcher > Subject: Larger that 2Gb HD in SunOs. > > ... bought a 4Gb Seagate Baracuda for his SPARC. Under SunOs (4.1.1 I > think) he can partition the drive but gets an error when he tries to > create a new file system. He seems to be limited to 2Gb ... The 2Gb limit was fixed in either 4.1.2 or 4.1.3. He needs to upgrade, or limit each partition to 2Gb. - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:34:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Tim R. Ayers" Subject: SunOS and Solaris on IPX To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Sparc IPX running SunOS 4.1.4. I've heard rumor that you can set up a Sparc to run either SunOS or Solaris depending on how you boot it. I was hoping someone could explain the basics of doing that. Does one have two different hard drives, one with SunOS and one with Solaris, or maybe one drive with two different partitions? Can the two OSes share the spool so you don't have different mail depending on what OS is functioning? I assume the spool would need to be on a partition different from the ones containing either OS. You probably understand the level of knowledge I'm at (low ;-). Thanks a lot for any help. Hope you have a very nice day, :-) - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************