CCECHAN@NUSVM.BITNET (Luther Chan) (06/12/90)
I have several problems with the Sun 3/50 here. First the harddisk did not spin, now seems working. But some command seems to have problems, like suntools, it may hang the system if activated. I believe the disk commands are corrupted. Anyway I will have to reformat the disk and reinstall everything. However my most urgent task at the moment is to make sure the Sun can hookup to the LAN. Early on I turned off the RIP on the rc.local (it was the name server, I turned yellowpages off as well, we don't use it). Upon restart it said device not found. The following are the questions and things that I tried out. 1. How to address the ethernet interface on the sun? Is it ie0? When I issued: ifconfig ie0 up It gave me : ioct<(siocg,fflags): no such interface. & when I issue: netstat -r I can only see the interface lo0 for loopback. 2. How to format and reinstall Sun 3/50 on a stand alone harddisk? (note: we do not have these documentation, It appearently lost before I took over managing this Sun.) Luther Chan Y.W. Systems Programmer E-MAIL: CCECHAN@NUSVM.BITNET
willief@cs.utexas.edu (06/13/90)
The Ethernet device is le0, lance ethernet, I believe. As far as re-building, it is a bit involved. Give me a call and I can help! (206)867-1900