Goals
In this session you will:
- install Solaris 7 on Sun hardware
Why run solaris
- Business: official OS for Sun hardware - may have support in place
- Home: familiarity with the slightly quirky os
- OpenWindows window manager
- solid threading and multitasking/multiprocessing
- 7 and later are 64bit OS
- Sun leans on vendors to provide package-based software installation
quirks
- Solaris 1 = SunOS 4.
- Solaris 2 = SunOS 5. BSD -> SYSVr4
- Solaris 7 = Solaris 2.7
- famous for lacking cc
- known for patches (but cf. Microsoft)
Potential Gotchas
- Solaris 1 is different from later versions (commands, binary emulation)
- /etc/vfstab
- rc files wildly atomized
- boot partition needs to occur in the first gig, and not extend past the 2nd gig
[Ranni's part]
http://www.mousetrap.net/syllabus/unix_admin_pt2/day3.html
$Id: day3.orb,v 1.4 2001/12/19 20:50:32 mouse Exp $
Remember, your login is based on your machine's hostname, not on any other number.
~/[initials] refers to the subdirectory under your homedir, named after your initials. Everything except for .dotfiles will be stored in your ~/[initials] directory.
