> You're right, they don't. That's something we should fix. Generally, if > you've just downloaded the Solaris images, you won't have any of these things > and can just ignore this screen.
Thats the trade off from buying it then? I noticed the GNU utils seem to be absent? I don't know why that would be excluded. Thanks for the info, my long time strength has been with linux, it nice to have another UNIX become more available. Solaris 10 is way better than solaris 8 that I tried before. >> 2. When setting up slices, what is overlap? LVM? does it matter where it >> is located? >> > > By convention, slice 2 is specified as the overlap slice, which provides > access to the entire disk (or Solaris fdisk partition, on x86). It's > possible you'll find software that doesn't work correctly if you stray from > that convention, so usually you should just leave it alone. But what is it then, LVM? Also, I thought it showed overlap on slice 4. >> 3. What is the Sun X server? that's not openwindows is it? >> > > No, it's not OpenWindows, which has been mostly retired. Generally, you'll > want to use the X.org server on x86 systems, though the Sun X server is > useful in some cases if you have problems with the X.org server. So its just Suns own X server that was used all those years? It would be nice to see some comparison between the 2, like it does with grub in the docs. There's so much stuff in the docs, I found it harder to find the important things.
