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I want to turn a Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc-20 into a standalone system.

I am from the SunOS world and there I just emptied the /etc/defaultdomain file
and rebooted. When I do that on Solaris 2.4 it keeps on complaining about
missing carrier during the boot-up process. I have not been able to get the
machine passed that state and consequently not been able to boot it.

Does someone know how to solve this problem?

Your answer is much appreciated to the news group or directly to me:

Thanks in advance!

Christian Ronne
Communicator CEC Ltd.

Quote:Ronne) writes:

Remove /etc/hostname.* and everything should probably be okay.

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Let us pray:
What a Great System.
Please Do Not Crash.

   boot -sw

at the ok> prompt, then

   sys-unconfig

This will effectively "blank" your machine (read the blurb that comes
up when you run this command).  Let the machine shut down, then boot
it back up and go through the configuration process.  Oh, and when it
asks if the machine is networked, you can reply "no".  Make sure to
make a note of your hostname and timezone before running sys-unconfig!

James
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Quote:>I want to turn a Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc-20 into a standalone system.
>I am from the SunOS world and there I just emptied the /etc/defaultdomain file
>and rebooted. When I do that on Solaris 2.4 it keeps on complaining about
>missing carrier during the boot-up process. I have not been able to get the
>machine passed that state and consequently not been able to boot it.
>Does someone know how to solve this problem?

rm etc/.rootkey
rm etc/defaultdomain
mv etc/nsswitch.files etc/nsswitch.conf
rm -rf var/nis
add dns to nsswitch.conf, if you have dns on your system (i.e. resolv.conf)

ex:
hosts:      files dns

reboot to make sure.  Remember that your hosts file may be the only way to
resolve ip addresses and names, if you dont have DNS.

Hope this helps.

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