Friend of mine recently set up OpenSolaris and sent me the following feedback, which I thought others might be interested in. -alan ============ I installed VirtualBox today on my Linux system at home, and Just installed OpenSolaris 200805 in it. Pretty impressed, it all went pretty smoothly. The LiveCD is great, very Ubuntu-like. I never even had to burn a physical DVD, VirtualBox was able to run right from the ISO image that I pulled from the net, and then I installed onto my (virtual) harddrive directly from the ISO.
A couple of things, and you've probably heard them before, but they seem to be fit-n-finish things that could really help: - the darn Solaris installs with the hosts name service set to "files". DHCP seemed to work fine, got an address from my DSL router (the DHCP server), my system was on the internet, but there was no name service. That's just silly. So I had to go and copy the /etc/resolv.conf file from my Linux box, and then copy /etc/nsswitch.dns ot /etc/nsswitch.conf. Trivial for somebody who has been using Unix for a long time. A newbie is just going to wonder why their web browser isn't working. - So once I got my browser working I googled for "coolstack" and went to the Sun download center to grab the LAMP stack (er, Solaris AMP stack) to install. The cool Sun Download Manager is a Java WebStart (jnlp) file. And the Firefox that was bundled and installed on my OpenSolaris box didn't know what to do with it. Fortunately I knew I could save it to a file, and then run it from the command line via "/usr/bin/javaws <foo>.jnlp", but that's another one that I would think should "just work". But those gripes aside, this is pretty cool. I just grabbed the pieces individually -- first VirtualBox, then the OpenSolaris ISO. And for a somewhat experience user, it's pretty easy. I think the OpenSolaris install compared very favorably to my experience with Ubuntu 8.04. ============ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
