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Sun's SPARC servers have the ability to boot a kernel and run an installer across a routed network using only HTTP or HTTPS. On SPARC platforms, the (BIOS|Firmware|Boot PROM) can download a bootable kernel and mini root file system via HTTP/HTTPS, boot from the mini root, and then download and install Solaris. This allows booting a server across a local or wide area network without having any bootable media attached to the chassis. All you need is a serial console, a network connection, an IP address, a default gateway and a web server that's accessible from the bare SPARC server. You set a few ... Read Full Story

An unmountable or inconsistent state in Sun Solaris Sparc operating system primarily occurs due to file system damage, operating system malfunctioning, Kernel damage ( completely or partially) , virus infection, and more. Data stored on your hard drive becomes inaccessible after you your system comes into an unmountable state. To overcome such situations, an easy way is to restore data from a complete backup. But if in case, you have not maintained any backup or backup file is unable to restore the required data, then you will need to use advanced Sun Solaris Data Recovery Software to recover your lost data. Consider a practical ... Read Full Story

In most cases, you use a patch to upgrade your Sun Solaris operating system. These patches are also provide the latest fixes to remove all the bugs and firmware issues. While installing latest patches has many advantages, it can also result in system panic, Kernel damage, data corruption, and denial of Service security issue. In most of the above situations, your system becomes unbootable making all the data saved in your hard drive becomes inaccessible. The most easy way to access your data is by restoring it from an updated backup. But if in case, no backup is available or backup falls short to ... Read Full Story

One of the perks of being in the IT business is that you have to constantly upgrade systems as the technology gets better to keep up with the latest software. What happens to the old systems after an upgrade? Well, if you lease your systems then the oldies most likely go back to the leasing company, but if you buy your systems like my company (and many others) those systems go off to be donated or recycled. Well, sometimes there are some decent machines that are getting ready to go out, and if you are in IT you get first dibs. That is exactly ... Read Full Story

SAN or Storage Area Network is a high-performance subnetwork, which is responsible to connect various remote data storage devices/media to their related servers. The SAN actually functions in lieu of larger network of computer users, which connect the Storage Area Network in a way that all of them appear to be locally linked to single operating system. In some situations, the SAN face some critical failure issues and the stored data may become inaccessible. In these cases, you should restore the server from good known backup. But if the backup is not available, then you should go for Data Recovery Service experts to get ... Read Full Story

You can connect your iPod to a Windows and Mac based system using a USB port. Any iPod that has a dock connector can be connected to USB 2.0 port. For a system to allow data transfer and access iPod information, it is essential that the system should first recognize it as a correct device. But if your system cannot do so, the odds are that iPod internal structure is damaged and thus you require to reformat it. After reformatting, if you find your backup invalid to restore the data, you need to use iPod Data Recovery tools. For an instance, when you connect ... Read Full Story

Our children take us down strange paths. My middle child is a freshman at the Univerity of Wisconsin - Madison ( http://www.wisc.edu/ ) majoring in Computer Science. While reviewing his courses for the spring term we noted that his data structures course required a working knowledge of Linux, in particular Red Hat Linux. As a concerned parent this immediately sent me down the path of finding a linux distribution that he could dual boot to his AMD x64 windows based computer. After talking to some friends that have been doing the open source bit for a while I ended up downloading and installing uBuntu ... Read Full Story