On 20/05/07, Ryan de Laplante <ryan at ijws.com> wrote: > 1) When installing with the "everything" software group, after the first > reboot my screen goes into "Unsupported mode". I'm usng an LCD screen > through a KVM. The graphical installer worked fine before rebooting. I > suspect the refresh rate is now set too high for my LCD screen. After > attaching a CRT monitor to the computer, I saw the graphical installer > had started back up and wanted me to insert disc #2.
Knowing which monitor you had and what video chipset would help. > I don't see an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. There must be one somewhere? Nope, it uses autodetection. However, I think there is a sample /etc/X11/.xorg.conf file (note tthe leading dot). > At the moment I don't have all the information to use xorgconfig and > create a new one. From past experiences, I don't think my LCD screen > supports 60Hz (it's an old one). Gnome won't let me change the refresh > rate. How can I do this? Use the xorg --configure I think... > 2) I chose to customize the "core" software group. As I added packages > it warned me about dependencies, and expected me to resolve them > manually. As I manually resolved some dependencies it created more > dependencies, etc... I gave up and chose to install the default core > group. I think this is a major deficiency in the installer. A new installer is on the way; but I don't think the initial version will resolve the customisation issue. > 3) I am installing off of CDs. Is it really necessary to ask me which > installation media I want to use after the end of each CD? Then, after > inserting the next CD and pressing OK, it tells me that it is going to > install the CD and wants me to press OK again! There is a 10-20 second > delay between the first OK and the confirmation screen. I didn't notice > this because after inserting the CD and pressing OK, I walked away. > When I came back I realized that the install hadn't even started. See above; new installer coming. > 4) I want to install Solaris on a server with all the useful > administration tools that only come in the "everything" software group. > I think there needs to be an other software group for servers that is > similar to the "end user" group (relatively small install size), does > not install things like Star Office, games, graphics and video tools, > thunderbird, PDA Sync, etc. but does include a bunch of server admin > tools. This would make it a lot easier to install on a server, > especially for people new to Solaris like myself. Our network admins > really don't want to use the "everything" group, "end user" is not > suitable for a server, and "core" is way too basic. It's easier to install using core and then add on what you need by running the installer again from the CD I believe. > This PDF shows that Sun recommends you use the "everything" software > group for production servers. Is that the norm? Does Sun really think > that a production server OS and tools should be 6 GB, come with Star > Office, all the developer tools and libraries, etc? Yes, at this time, unfortunately :| > 5) I'm installing on x86 hardware using a regular US English keyboard. > The default shell that comes with Solaris doesn't support backspace, > arrow keys, and possibly more basic but important keys. Why doesn't > Solaris install bash and use it by default (at least on x86 hardware)? > Bash works well with my keyboard. Because bash is not the same as /bin/sh. Because of backwards compatibility requirements, Sun can't change the default shell to bash. You, however, can. I'm not sure what x86 hardware has to do with it... > 7) I have a /home and /export/home. I read somewhere that this is done > by design. You could have user home directories loaded from NFS shares > and mapped to /home (or something like that). When I create a new > local user, am I supposed to use /home or /export/home for their home > directory? Since Solaris creates such a large partition for > /export/home, I would think that is where it expects me to put local > user home directories. When I use /export/home, am I supposed to do > something else so that /home maps to it? This is a bit confusing to > someone coming from the Linux world. http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/02/youre-never-far-from-home.html -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
