Subj : Hello? To : Tye Hammerle From : Steve Quarrella Date : Mon Nov 06 2000 09:34 am SQ>> And then it didn't bug you? Interesting. th> Oh yeah it bugs me BAAAAD! But I don't have time at the th> moment to run through another install, soon though. Next I've been away from the ol' Solaris box lately, mired in BS work, but as our company wants to VPN between our office and our European office, AND the people who outsource our firewall have told us to go to hell in this regard, I get to be the lucky guy who'll make this work. Checkpoint, I can handle. Checkpoint on NT, I can handle. Checkpoint on something a bit more stable, I recommend, but that puts the learning curve back on me. I'm finding that I remember a bit more than rm and ls, fortunately. :-) I've found some older (but still good) copies of some O'Reilly's books, like the UNIX CD Bookshelf or UNIX in a Nutshell, and they've been of tremendous help to me in getting moving again (previous UNIX experience is a bit of SCO, back in '91 or so). th> I found that when using NIS/DNS you have to define the th> machine before you try to net boot so that it can find itself th> there. I'm making a wild guess that the CD install is trying th> the same thing and that step is failing when it can't find Loopback man, loopback! SQ>> Got a spare Sparc you can loan me? th> Nope, only have two Sparc 5's I grabbed from eBay in a moment th> of weakness. Ye bastard! :-) --- * Origin: Il Vaticano * Lewisville, TX (1:393/9005.13) .