University of California at Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Instructional & Electronics Support Group /usr/pub/Solaris.help Apr 23, 1999 Intel Pentium Pro's Installed in 271, 275, and 277 Soda ------------------------------------------------ Intel donated 60 Pentium Pro machines to the CS Division (courtesy of Prof John Canny) in January 1997. Fifty-Nine of these computers are installed in the Instructional labs. Twenty-nine are in 330, thirty are in 277, thirty-three are in 275, and three are in 271 Soda. The configuration is: 200 MHz Pentium Pros with 24-bit color 17" color monitors 32-MB RAM, 2.5-GB disks 8x Sony CD-ROM The hostnames of the Instructional Solaris x86 systems are: Located in 277 Soda ---------------------- s277-1.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-6.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-2.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-7.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-3.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-8.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-4.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-9.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-5.CS.Berkeley.EDU s277-10.CS.Berkeley.EDU bombay.CS.Berkeley.EDU boroda.CS.Berkeley.EDU poona.CS.Berkeley.EDU bangalore.CS.Berkeley.EDU jodphur.CS.Berkeley.EDU mangalore.CS.Berkeley.EDU kanpur.CS.Berkeley.EDU cuttack.CS.Berkeley.EDU patna.CS.Berkeley.EDU simlac.CS.Berkeley.EDU calcutta.CS.Berkeley.EDU rampur.CS.Berkeley.EDU howrah.CS.Berkeley.EDU ambala.CS.Berkeley.EDU lucknow.CS.Berkeley.EDU meerut.CS.Berkeley.EDU srinagar.CS.Berkeley.EDU ajmer.CS.Berkeley.EDU surat.CS.Berkeley.EDU ranchi.CS.Berkeley.EDU Located in 275 Soda ---------------------- angelico.CS.Berkeley.EDU bosch.CS.Berkeley.EDU bramante.CS.Berkeley.EDU bruegel.CS.Berkeley.EDU cellini.CS.Berkeley.EDU castagno.CS.Berkeley.EDU cranach.CS.Berkeley.EDU davinci.CS.Berkeley.EDU dufay.CS.Berkeley.EDU durer.CS.Berkeley.EDU fabriano.CS.Berkeley.EDU fouquet.CS.Berkeley.EDU ghiberti.CS.Berkeley.EDU giotto.CS.Berkeley.EDU greco.CS.Berkeley.EDU holbein.CS.Berkeley.EDU luther.CS.Berkeley.EDU mantegna.CS.Berkeley.EDU martini.CS.Berkeley.EDU memlinc.CS.Berkeley.EDU perugino.CS.Berkeley.EDU piero.CS.Berkeley.EDU raphael.CS.Berkeley.EDU reni.CS.Berkeley.EDU rohan.CS.Berkeley.EDU titian.CS.Berkeley.EDU uccello.CS.Berkeley.EDU vaneyck.CS.Berkeley.EDU vignolo.CS.Berkeley.EDU weyden.CS.Berkeley.EDU veronese.CS.Berkeley.EDU palladio.cs.Berkeley.EDU Located in 271 Soda --------------------- apache.CS.Berkeley.EDU geronimo.CS.Berkeley.EDU mandan.CS.Berkeley.EDU mohican.CS.Berkeley.EDU omaha.CS.Berkeley.EDU osage.CS.Berkeley.EDU quapaw.CS.Berkeley.EDU sauk.CS.Berkeley.EDU Installed Software ------------------ They are running Solaris x86 2.6, Driver update 3. We are installing software under "/usr/sww" for Instructional use, for the solaris environment, but PLEASE NOTE: this is local to the Instructional systems and is NOT supported by sww-bugs@cs. So mail any problem reports to us at root@cory.eecs, please. Currently installed packages include: GNU (FSF) packages emacs v19.34b bash v1.14.5 gcc and g++ v2.8.1 RCS v5.7 gas (assembler) v2.9.1 grep v2.0 bin utilities v2.8.1 gdb v4.17 ghostscript v4.03 groff v1.09 ghostview v2.6.2 gnumake v3.75.1 autoconf v2.4 less v3.2 bison v1.25 awk v3.0.2 tar v1.11.8 gzip v1.2.4 g++ library v2.8.1 CVS v1.9 shar v4.1 regexp library v0.12 Other packages: elm v2.5beta ncftp v1.9.4 xarchie v2.0.9 ctwm v3.2 tcl v8.1 tk v8.1 Changing Winndow Managers: -------------------------- To use a window manager other than the CDE (Common Desktop Environment) default window manager, check the list above to make sure the window manager has been installed, then call up your favorite text editor with .dtprofile as your input file and scroll all the way to the bottom. At the bottom you need to add the following line: SESSIONTYPE=xdm If you want to use another window manager, check the list above to make sure the window manager has been installed, then look at the .dtprofile and make sure that the SESSIONTYPE line is absent or commented out. Floppy and CD-ROM usage ------------------------- To use the floppy drives please read /usr/pub/Solaris.drives For Zip Drive usage ------------------- The following machines are the only currently available PC's running Solaris that have a zip drive attached to them. mandan.CS.Berkeley.EDU perugino.CS.Berkeley.EDU fouquet.CS.Berkeley.EDU ghiberti.CS.Berkeley.EDU palladio.CS.Berkeley.EDU veronese.CS.Berkeley.EDU Five of these machines are located in 275, one is in 271 Soda for general access. To use the zip drive on these machines, we have supplied 2 easy scripts to help you in getting the drive to function for you. In /usr/local/sbin there are three programs. 1. mount_zip -- (Mounts a zip disk on the /zip directory) 2. umount_zip -- (Unmounts a zip disk from the /zip directory) 3. ziptool -- (Allows you to format or view the current status of a zip disk) In order to mount a zip disk you need to make sure the disk is PC DOS formated. This is currently the only option available on our systems. If you wish to format a disk please use the 'ziptool' binary to do so. Here is what you need to type in order to format the disk. % /usr/local/sbin/ziptool /dev/rdsk/c2t5d0s2 \$msdos When the process is done the disk should have been ejected. To mount the disk for writing please follow these directions. Insert the ZIP disk into the drive % /usr/local/sbin/mount_zip % cd /zip To umount and eject the floppy please follow the following. Before you issue this command please cd out of the zip directory if you happpen to be in it. % /usr/local/sbin/umount_zip Lack of Audio ------------- The SolarisX86 PCs do not have software drivers for the audio cards, so there is no audio support through the sound cards on those systems (and no /dev/audio device files). The oss audio drivers from www.opensound.com do support our SolarisX86 PCs, but the software is not free. Instructors who require audio support for class assignments should contact the Instructional staff about it. We may be able to use different computers, or we may be able to purchase the audio drivers for SoalrisX86. Instructional & Electronics Support 384/386 Cory, 333 Soda root@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu