new to Solaris
Hello, I downloaded Solaris express and managed to get it it all onto a dvd for installation last night. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp
I tried installing it today and found it to be not very helpful, I had 3 goes at it, each time deleting the partition and starting from scratch.
My main problem is, I was never asked to enter a user, just the root password, thats all. I could not find any way to add a user from menus in cde, or jds r3. It seemed difficult to get to a graphical log in as well, perhaps I did a few things wrong with the installation?
I hacked around in the terminal for a while, but the syntax is quite different from Linux.
Is there such a thing as a simple users guide to Solaris? Or is it, if you dont know how to use it, you should not be using it.
I would like to have a spare box set up with Solaris on it, so I can learn how to use it.
Cheers.
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jdsr2] at [2007-11-25 23:11:21]
# 1
Check the 'Sun Management Console' which can be found in one of the CDE menus and I think also somewhere in the Java Desktop. Next there's always http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985 which provides a good read.
As to being different; both Linux and Solaris know about the useradd(1M) command, there isn't much difference there. Next is 'groupadd(1M)'.
LionO at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 2
Thanks for those links. I will try again soon, this time armed with more research.
Last time I tried installing I selected "end user" type of of installation. Seeing as disk space is no problem for me, perhaps I would be better off selecting "entire system" or whatever it is.
The Sun Management Console would not start, the message I got gave me the impression it was not installed, perhpas there was an installation error? Should I have been asked to enter a user name and password after installation? Or are you supposed to set all that up after installation as root?
The installation procedure I went through seemed different to the documentation I heve looked at, the Solaris I installed, called itself Solaris 11 (The March 2006 Solaris Express) so perhaps there are some (as yet) undocumented changes?
Might I be better off going with the Standard Solaris 10?
Many thanks for any advice.
jdsr2 at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 3
If you want a supported system (patches and documentation) it is better to get the latest version of solaris 10. You have to install the "entire system" and "smc" will work...Regards,Fabian
# 4
As a rule of thumb (but not an official one ;-)) its usually best to select either 'all' or at least 'developer'. The latter because a lot of programs (like the update connection which is used to patch your system (doesn't apply to Express)) depends on certain development tools and libraries.
When you've gained a little more experience you'll be able to manually select what software you want and don't want, but untill that time I think this is the best way to go.
LionO at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 5
Okay, next time I will select entire distribution (or whatever it is), just to make sure. I'll stick with the Express seeing as I have it now. There is an IT auction coming up soon here in Perth so I will probably wait and see if I can pick up a bargain before I attempt another install, save messing around with my current system, again.
Should get time to find more information as well.
Thanks for the assistance, looking forward to using Solaris.
Cheers, Peter.
jdsr2 at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 6
Well, I decided not wait after all. Now I have Solaris installed and running fairly well, I have managed to install myself as a user and all that, even installed firefox as my browser.
I do have a problem though, when I restart there seems to be a problem getting to a gui log in screen, it keeps saying "My unqualified host name (unknown) sleeping for a retry"
I get to a command prompt and log in as root or user and just stay there at the terminal. then for no apparent reason it tells me to wait for the graphical log in screen or something similar before trying to log in.
Presumably this is all to do with my not setting a name at intial install? I just selected "none".
Thanks for any tips on this.
Cheers, Peter.
jdsr2 at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 7
Hi:
You can use these commands to create user ID .
-bash-3.00# pwd
/
-bash-3.00# mkdir jenny
-bash-3.00# useradd -d /jenny -m -s /bin/bash jenny
-bash-3.00# cat /etc/passwd
jenny:x:202910:1::/jenny:/bin/bash
passwd jenny
to set password for user ID jenny.
mikey at 2007-7-5 18:01:25 >
# 8
"My unqualified host name (unknown) sleeping for a retry"The box is just looking for it's hostname in DNS. I'm sure you don't have a DNS server so just add your FQDN to the /etc/hosts file and that error will go away.
# 9
Thanks, I will try that later, I dont have it installed at present but will be "having another go" in a few days. After I have read up a bit more.
