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To add a new disk to the system, prepare the disk to hold a file system, and mount the file system, perform these general steps:

1. Set up the disk hardware, which might include setting address switches and connecting cables.
2. Perform a reconfiguration boot or run the devfsadm utility to add support for the new disk.
3. Use the format utility to partition the disk into one or more slices.
4. Create a new file system on one slice by using the newfs command.
5. Create a mount point for the file system by using the mkdir command to create a new directory in the / (root) file system.

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Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security updates.

Oracle announced the news Thursday, saying it will include a number of Sun products in its next Critical Patch Update, which is due on Tuesday. The update will include 16 security fixes for Sun products, including Solaris, Sun Cluster, Sun Convergence and the Sun Ray server software.

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Just see the Solaris 10 video ad from Sun( now part of Oracle).  Well crafted video. Watch.

In Solaris there are times you may need to jump into ok prompt. You can do this while booting by pressing CTRL + A , but when you are in Solaris shell you can do it by using uadmin command . Here are the all the options of uadmin

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All Sun Servers and workstations have resident boot PROM firmware (called OBP) that provides basic hardware testing and initialization prior to booting. The boot PROM also enables you to boot from a wide range of devices. The boot PROM firmware controls the operation of the system before the OS has been booted and the kernel is available.Before updating we should know what is the existing OBP revision. Read more…