Welcome aboard. First off, I was a newbie about 18 mths ago and found these forums extremely helpful, friendly and often very authoritative. In all my years having microsoft or OS/2 stuff I never had a reply to questions from one of their engineers or programmers, though that happens all the time in these forums, mostly because they're development forums. Usually polite, respectful and very measured though we've had some recent unpleasantness, flames and ugliness re: the Oracle business.
A couple of suggestions: unix is a completely different animal and you should be prepared for long - but ultimately very worthwhile - learning curve. That means disasters and a dedicated toy for a few months. Don't try to do your tax returns this year on your new installation. As you've already noticed your first install didn't work and it won't end there. Like folks have said, the 2009-06 release is old. The newest, snv_134 is very stable but with a few serious problems that have prevented it from being made a production release, none that would likely quickly affect a new user. Grab the liveCD as was suggested. I had so many problems when I began that I made extensive use of google first and then as last resort went to these forums. It saved a lot of trivial posting and helped me understand what was out there about solaris/opensolaris. Grab one of the new books like the OpenSolaris Bible. And lastly, to your question about executable files: there are several different kinds of executables. Some are fired up with a "./somefile" command, others are shell files fired up with a "sh somefile" command. Some need to have permissions set before you can run them - do a "man chmod." The os tools just start from the "command line." Have fun. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
