> hi there,
> am goin to join a company as junior systems engineer. i will cover solaris
> administration. my start date would be next month, so i decided to do a
> self-study.i have a basic knowledge on unix, but hands-on administration is
> very challenging.
>
> i installed solaris 10 in vmware. however, i cannot see the man page. sample
> "man useradd". it says that no manual entry for useradd in list...something
> like this. how can i solved this?
>
> i downloaded this man-sunosman-20070612.tar and would plan to install but
> how can i mount the location?
>
What did you install? Solaris 10 or Solaris Express or ?
Have you tried to install the real thing on real hardware yet ?
I wrote this a little while ago. Some people find it helpful :
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10u3_howto.html
The real issue with man pages, by the way, is to install them up front
when you install the whole operating system. You can add them later,
but it can be tricky for a newbie. This is a great weakness in Solaris,
the absence of a easy-to-use software package management toolset.
To add those man pages after the fact, with Solaris Nevada snv_66 you
would need to do the following :
(1) gain access to the required packages from the Solaris Nevada
DVD install image by one of two ways :
1.1 ) insert the DVD into your DVD drive and it should be
automatically mounted for you under /media or /cdrom
or similar. You may need to issue the 'df -ak' command
to see where it is mounted.
1.2 ) Use lofiadm to mount the DVD ISO file thus :
lofiadm -a /path_to_file/sol-nv-b66-x86-dvd.iso
this should respond with :
/dev/lofi/1
then you mount that thus :
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /media/dvd_1
the DVD will be available at /media/dvd_1
(2) take a look in the directory /media/dvd_1/Solaris_11/Product to
see a whole boatload of software packages. You can install them
from there. Use the pkgadd command like so :
pkgadd -d /media/dvd_1/Solaris_11/Product
You will get an awesome long list of software to install.
Sorry about the ugly line wrapping here but it should look like so :
bash-3.2# pkgadd -d /media/dvd_1/Solaris_11/Product
The following packages are available:
1 BRCMbnx Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter Driver
(i386) 11.11,REV=2007.06.01.10.25
2 CADP160 Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI Host Adapter
Driver
(i386) 1.21,REV=2007.05.31.23.50
3 HPFC Agilent Fibre Channel HBA Driver
(i386) 1.1.0,REV=2007.05.29.23.08
4 IPLTadcon Administration Server Console
(i386) 5.1,REV=2002.03.01.12.28
5 IPLTadman Administration Server Documentation
(i386) 5.1,REV=2002.03.01.12.28
6 IPLTadmin Administration Server
(i386) 5.1,REV=2002.03.01.12.29
7 IPLTcadcon Administration Server Console
Simplified Chinese Localization
(i386) 9.0,REV=2002.03.14.13.49
8 IPLTcadman Administration Server
Documentation Simplified Chinese Localization
(i386) 9.0,REV=2002.03.21.16.48
9 IPLTcadmin Administration Server Simplified
Chinese Localization
(i386) 9.0,REV=2002.03.14.13.49
10 IPLTccons Console Client Base Simplified
Chinese Localization
(i386) 9.0,REV=2002.03.14.13.49
... 1809 more menu choices to follow;
<RETURN> for more choices, <CTRL-D> to stop display:
There are easier ways ... but for a newbie you may want to scrool through
there until you see manpages for various things. The manpages are all over
the place for various software packages or groups. Be damned if I know why
they can't be better organized but we have manpages for this and that in
various places. Sorry. That's the way it is at the moment.
Personally I suggest that you install just about anything that looks like
this :
330 SUNWdtma CDE man pages
(i386) 1.7,REV=10.2007.04.25
There is probably half a dozen man page packages to install and you are 95%
covered for most things.
Dennis Clarke
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