Tuesday February 28, 2006 Pradhap 's UNIX Corner
Tuesday February 28, 2006
Ferrari 4000 flash archive installation I was trying to install Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop using flash archive, but the issue is Solaris doesnot come with
Broadcom Gigabit ethernet driver (bcme) so one cannot do network install. So I downloaded bcme driver from
broadcom website . When you unzip the drivers, you will find a tar file BRCMbcme.tar.Z. Untar the file and copy it into USB thumb drive.
Follow below steps to do flash archive installation over network.
o Once the Solaris is booted with CD exit installation
o Insert the USB thumb drive
o Create temproary directory
mkdir /tmp/bcmedrv
o Mount the thumb drive to /tmp/bcmedrv
o By default ramdisk (/) is mounted in read-only mode. Remount root / partition into read-write mode
mount -o remount,rw /
o Copy /tmp/bcmedrv/BRCMbcme/reloc/kernel/drv/ to /kernel/drv
cp -r /tmp/bcmedrv/BRCMbcme/reloc/kernel/drv/* /kernel/drv
o Run add_drv command
add_drv -i '"pci14e4,169d"' bcme
o Now plumb all interfaces
ifconfig -a plumb all
o You can see bcme is plumbed at this point
o Now fetch the IP if its dhcp or set static ip
ifconfig bcme0 dhcp start
o Now unmount /tmp/bcmedrv and remove usb-drive
o Run "install-solaris" in terminal which starts Solaris installation
o Select flash archive installation and complete the installation.
Posted by pradhap
( Feb 28 2006, 01:23:11 AM PST )
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Monday February 27, 2006
Jhead for Solaris Jhead is utility for manipulating Exif Jpeg header and thumbnail manipulator which is used in Gallery . For more information about this utility can be found at http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead . One can download Jhead binaries for Solaris from jhead-solaris.tar.gz
*) Download jhead-solaris.tar.gz .
*) Copy "jhead" from appropriate architecture to /usr/local/bin
*) chmod +x /usr/local/bin/jhead
Sample output:-
bash-3.00$ jhead IMG_0952.JPG
File name : IMG_0952.JPG
File size : 565717 bytes
File date : 2006:02:27 21:02:12
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon PowerShot SD110
Date/Time : 2004:12:18 00:33:53
Resolution : 2048 x 1536
Flash used : Yes (auto, red eye reduction mode)
Focal length : 5.4mm (35mm equivalent: 37mm)
CCD width : 5.28mm
Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60)
Aperture : f/2.8
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix
