Solaris

How to create self-contained Solaris 10 x86 Jumpstart kit

Byetzion 27/12/2008

I was required to create a self-contained, single DVD to automate the installation of Solaris 10 on x86_64. I could not find any up-to-date straight forward guide which can explain how to do it, so I do it here. This is not an explanation for dummies, so you must know (to some degree, of course)…

Solaris

Solaris SSH weird behaviour

Byetzion 03/07/2008

Sun likes IPv6. They like it so badly that they strive to use it in all cases. Solaris 9 and 10 SSH daemon is bounded to IPv6, which leads to a problem when trying to forward X. Editing the config file /etc/ssh/sshd_conf and assigning the SSH daemon to IPv4 address (bind to address 0.0.0.0) is…