Justin Zygmont wrote: >> 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.
You'd need to be specific about which GNU utilities you're looking for; we do place some in /usr/sfw/bin, but many will be part of the Software Companion (which install into /opt/sfw); that's a separate download. > > 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. > Thanks, we certainly hope so ;-) > >>> 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. > No, it's not necessarily used for a volume manager, though you can use if you just want to use the whole disk. Most of the time, the disk you're installing to will be carved up into other slices which are used instead. >>> 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. There's some stuff over on the X community page, http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/; I haven't looked back through the docs to see if there's anything to point you at specifically. Dave
