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Solaris 7 5/99 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware
Book Information
Chapter 1 Late Breaking News
New Information in These Release Notes
Service Contract Upgrades to the Solaris 7 5/99 Operating Environment
Unbundled Product Support
Documents on the Software Supplement for the Solaris 7 5/99 Operating Environment for Sun Computer Systems CD
Product Name and Title Changes
Sun Microsystems Name Changes
Solaris Name Change
Solaris Server Intranet Extension Name Change
Flash PROM Update for 64-bit Operations
Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD
Sun Enterprise SyMON Software Available
Sun StorEdge A5000
Localized Packages on the Software Supplement for the Solaris 7 5/99 Operating Environment for Sun Computer Systems CD
Japanese Localized Packages
German Localized Packages
Italian Localized Packages
French Localized Packages
Spanish Localized Packages
Swedish Localized Packages
Traditional Chinese Localized Packages
Simplified Chinese Localized Packages
Korean Localized Packages
Chapter 2 End-of-Support Products
End-of-Support Products
Network Devices -- BEC Device and be Driver
Graphics Devices--Discontinued Frame Buffers
PEX Graphics Library
Future End-of-Support Products
Sun4c-based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
Chapter 3 Open Issues
Prestoserve 2.4.2 -- Patch Required
Booting From Partitions Greater Than 2-Gbytes (1234177)
SunFDDI Adapters Cannot Boot Sun4d Diskless Clients (4144414)
Quad Ethernet Controller--Dynamic Reconfiguration Not Supported
Serial Parallel Controller Driver
Serial Parallel Controller Driver Does Not Support Dynamic Reconfiguration (4177805)
ISDN -- Power Management Not Supported
/usr/ucblib/sparcv9 is Not Available (4114650)
SunScreen SKIP 1.1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 7 5/99 Operating Environment
Solstice SyMON Not Supported in Solaris 7 5/99 Operating Environment
SunVTS 3.2 Issues
New Features in This Release
SunVTS OPEN LOOK User Interface Support
Running SunVTS Online Diagnostics through Sun Enterprise SyMON
Disk Test (disktest) Mounting Issues
The SunVTS User Interface Disappears (4122829)
Some Devices Not Displayed Under Physical Mapping (4228489)
ShowMe TV Known Problems
PCMCIA Issues
If the PC ATA, pcata, module is modunloaded the system will appear to hang (4096137)
The PCMCIA, pcic nexus, driver, does not support 3.3Volts PC Card (4098998)
The PC ATA, pcata, disk driver crashes and hangs the system and causes a memory leaks (4106401)
When booting Solaris 7 5/99 operating environment initially with 64-bit kernel the device /dev/term/pc0, PC card serial driver, may not get created (4162969)
The PC ATA, pcata, driver panics the 64-bit kernel (4174177)
PC File Viewer Issues
Install in the /opt Directory
Known Bugs
Sun Remote System Control (RSC) Release Notes
What's New in This Version
Hardware and Software Configurations Supported for RSC
Supported Server:
Supported GUI Clients:
Supported CLI Clients:
Ethernet Support:
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS):
SunVTS:
Paging Support:
Testing RSC Paging
Troubleshooting
Known Issues
SunVTS Test for PGX32 Available
Copyright Notices
SunForum 2.0 Notices:
ShowMe TV Notices:
Copyright\256 1993-1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Tous droits re'serve's.
Copyright 1990-1993 GROUPE BULL
Copyright 1992 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Netscape Communicator Notices:
Sun Enterprise 10000 SSP 105684-04, 106281-01, and 106282-01 Notices:
Documentation Errata
PC launcher Manpage
Platform Notes: The hme SunFastEthernet Device Driver Guide
Sun Enterprise 10000 Dynamic Reconfiguration User's Guide Documenation Errata
Alternate Pathing Documenation Errata
Locale-Specific Bugs
SunForum BugID 4234195
ShowMe TV BugID 4234201
PC launcher Installation and Configuration
Audience
What is PC launcher?
PC launcher Installation Requirements
System Requirements
Sun Workstation
Network PC Environment with one of the following:
PC launcher Installation
SunPCi Requirements
Installing PC launcher Using pkgadd
Configuring PC launcher
Using PC launcher
Working With Files
Windows Files
Windows Binary Files
Copy and Paste Text
View and Search
Print Files
Other Features
Bring Windows Start Menu to CDE
Login On a Different Machine
Reconfigure PC launcher
Switch Between Targets
Getting Help for PC launcher
Chapter 4 Sun Enterprise 10000 Server Open Issues
Sun Enterprise 10000 Server
General Issues
The Solaris 7 Operating Environment and Boot-Disk Partition Sizes
Operating Mode
Solaris 7 and the SSP
Patch-ID 105684-04
Patch-ID 106281-01
Patch-ID 106282-01
Documentation Errata
Fresh Install Procedure
OBP Variables
Solaris Version Names
Known Bugs
Fixed Bugs
Chapter 5 Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems Open Issues
AP on Sun Enterprise Servers
Installation Issues
General Issues
Supported Devices
SunFDDI and GigabitEthernet Devices
Sun StorEdge A3000
Sun StorEdge A5000
Sun StorEdge A7000
Software Compatibility
Fixed Bugs
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