[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Linux?

[Gregg Sporar]

Just to make sure I understand the requirement.  You are looking for 
information such as:

http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/which_disk_devices_to_use

and

http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-device-names-work.html

to be added to the OpenSolaris documentation?

Thanks,
Gregg


On 09/09/08 08:47, Amit k. Saha wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Kristian Rink <lists at zimmer428.net> wrote:
>   
>> Folks;
>>
>> Amit k. Saha schrieb:
>>
>>     
>>> 1. Viewing current information about USB devices currently plugged in-
>>> 'lsusb' does this on Linux
>>>       
>> I'd make this a little more general: Determining "which hardware is where"
>> on an OpenSolaris drive? Given /dev naming conventions differ pretty much,
>> having a clearly outlined getting-started reference for the most commonly
>> used "devices" (disk drives? cdrom / removable drives? disk partitions?
>> network devices? ...?) seems helpful to me.
>>     
>
> I find the entries in '/dev' on Solaris very cryptic. A guide
> explaining '/dev/cXdXpX' would be very useful.
>
> -Amit
>   
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