Pro OpenSolaris: a new open source OS for Linux developers by Harry Foxwell

Pro OpenSolaris: a new open source OS for Linux developers by Harry Foxwell

By Harry Foxwell

Seasoned OpenSolaris is a wonderful primer to Sun's new working process - OpenSolaris! The publication presents an exceptional advent to OpenSolaris for someone now not acquainted with a UNIX atmosphere and a superb transition consultant for an individual seeking to transition from older UNIX or Linux structures. directors accustomed to previous Solaris models will locate professional OpenSolaris a gain in transitioning to the newest applied sciences resembling the Zetabyte dossier method (ZFS) and a number of the how you can hire virtualization. The fluid discussions and ideal screenshots enable the person to quick examine the bits and bobs of the approach. This publication has proven how effortless it's to get an OpenSolaris process up and working and all of the enjoyable that may be had for either legacy Solaris clients and Linux clients alike!

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Be sure that this is what you intend to do, since you will now have the opportunity to wipe out any other OS and data partitions on your disk! Additionally, you should know what hardware your system has and have at least a rough idea of how you want to allocate your disk resources. For example, you may want to plan for multiple data partitions or to configure a large root partition. Later in the installation process, you’ll have a chance to organize your disk the way you want. In any case, when you boot from the CD with the intention of installing only OpenSolaris, you’ll still arrive at the same Installer Welcome screen shown in Figure 3-7.

Each of these new compilations, called builds, has a sequence number. ” As with almost every UNIX and Linux system, use the qj]ia command in a terminal window: qj]ia )] OqjKO klokh,- 1*-- ojr[-,- e42l_ e/42 e42l_ Okh]neo 47 48 CHAPTER 3 N GE TTING A ND INS TA L L ING OP ENS OL A R I S Note the ojr[-,-—ojr is an abbreviation for Solaris Next Version, and -,- is the build number. ,,4 =hh Necdpo Naoanra`* n_/ means Release Candidate 3, a designation for a near-final compilation expected to be posted soon on dppl6++sss*klajokh]neo*knc for general distribution.

S )NSTALL VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE SUCH AS 6-WARE 7ORKSTATION OR 3UNS 6IRTUAL"OX and then install OpenSolaris as a guest operating system virtual machine. After installing the virtualization software, you will use it to configure and install one or more OpenSolaris VMs. This is the recommended installation method. After a few initial differences, several of these choices follow essentially the same installation and configuration steps. Let’s look at each of these choices in more detail. Live CD Booting Assuming that you have an OpenSolaris CD from Sun or that you have created one of your own from a downloaded *eok file, you’re now ready to start exploring and installing it.

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