I'm not administrating Solaris systems very often - it is even more rare that I need to mount optical media on Solaris. This is just a short reminder so that I don't need to use a search engine everytime. First of all the CD / DVD drive is determined by the iostat command. Afterwards the drive is mounted using the …

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Beside Linux systems also Oracle Solaris hosts can be managed using Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite - a cool feature that is often forgotten. (Update: since Spacewalk 2.2 from 07/16/2014 this function is "deprecated" which means that it might be removed in one of the following releases) Bigger companies which …

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