What’s the easiest way to uninstall veritas
> Hi, I have old veritas 3.x series an I wanted to uninstall it from my
> Solaris box, what would be easiest way to do to get this task accomplished?
> I do have root disk mirrored using veritas but its not a problem for me to
> take mirror disk out of the system.
>
> Thanks for pointing me into any links or instructions. Greatly do appreciate
> it.
>

copy /etc/vfstab.prevm /etc/vfstab
copy /etc/system.prevm /etc/system

(MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NO VOLUMES OUT THERE STILL UNDER VERITAS CONTROL)

reboot
pkgrm all the veritas product stuff.

Dear Mr. Chris,

Further to our earlier telephone conversation, please find attached a
copy of the netinfo script which when run on the system will gather
information from the system to assist with problem diagnosis. Please run
the script as root user and return the output to me.

As mentioned on the telephone it is essential that both the settings on
the switch and the interface are matched or you will encounter problems.
If auto negotiation is used on the interface it must be used on the
switch also.

The script I mentioned for configuring your interfaces at boot time is
also attached ( S68net-tune ) instructions for installing the script are
below and also in the start of the script.

# 1) cp S68net-tune to /etc/rc2.d
# 2) perform edits on the script as required
# 3) chmod 744 /etc/rc2.d/S68net-tune
# 4) chown root:sys /etc/rc2.d/S68net-tune
# 5) ln /etc/rc2.d/S68net-tune /etc/init.d/net-tune

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SCSI Basics

The common computer utilizes either ATA or SATA hard drives, as was discussed in this previous Tech Tip. There is another standard for connecting hard drives which doesn’t find its way into too many personal computers, but is quite prominent in servers and high-end work stations: SCSI. SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface, and if you don’t want to pronounce each letter individually, it’s OK to call it “skuzzy.” SCSI, like ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) or SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), can be used for connecting more than just hard drives to a computer system, and some of the other peripherals that can support SCSI include tape drives, optical drives, printers, and scanners. This Tech Tip will take a look at a few basic features of SCSI, mostly as related to hard drives, and how ATA and SATA drives may compare. Read more…

[12:10:27] root@carlton: /etc/default >
[12:10:27] root@carlton: /etc/default > /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p
maxsize layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11
init=zero mirror=ctrl
1575968768
[12:14:50] root@carlton: /etc/default > /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg  make
vol01 1575968768s layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128
ncolumn=11 init=zero  comment=”main nfs stripe-pro partition” mirror=ctrl

date
/usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,largefiles /dev/vx/rdsk/nfsdg/vol01
1575968768

date

/usr/sbin/mount -F vxfs -o suid /dev/vx/dsk/nfsdg/vol01 /d

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[11:53:56] @carlton: /var/vx/isis > cat command.log
Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 14:51:40 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=2  init=zero
Output: 352747520
Exit Code: 0

Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 15:01:42 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
mirror=ctrl
Output: 387977216
Exit Code: 0

Description: Create Volume
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:33 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg  make vol01 387977216s
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
comment=”main stripe-pro partition” mirror=ctrl
Output:
Exit Code: 0

Description: File System Create
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:37 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,largefiles
/dev/vx/rdsk/nfsdg/vol01 387977216  < /var/tmp/aaa00KN0F
Output:     version 5 layout
:     387977216 sectors, 193988608 blocks of size 1024, log size
16384 blocks
:     unlimited inodes, largefiles supported
:     193988608 data blocks, 193923312 free data blocks
:     5921 allocation units of 32768 blocks, 32768 data blocks
:     last allocation unit has 2048 data blocks
Exit Code: 0

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