i've been building up a system using the latest developer 1/08 sparc on a sun 
ultra 60

surprise, a number of important things aren't working right -- and to make them 
work right apparently i will be needing to learn a lot of new stuff that i 
didn't need for solaris 9

such as: it would seem that i am supposed to start up services using smf 
instead of /etc/init.d etc.

frankly, this is not a confidence builder -- it gives me a very negative ms 
windows kind of a feeling, but worse, the tools for doing this are not there or 
don't work and the information i need seems to be unavailable in google searches

i want to do a very simple thing, like starting up ipv6 on reboot without 
having to ifconfig ...plumb up at the console, but no, there's a stigma on 
putting things like this into scripts so i have to learn xml

i want to do a very simple thing, like starting up named on reboot without 
having to named ... at th console, but no, there's a stigma against startup 
scripts, so ...

worse yet, whether i am in gnome or cde, all the system admin menu items are 
broken on installation

when i check my filesystems using format it tells me that they are all ufs and 
not the zfs i was expecting to see; what's with that

im going to need a whole lot of handholding from the community for a while if i 
am not going to be forced to junk solaris in favor of debian

specific question: where is some of the information i need to overcome the 
"as-installed" and "right out of the box everything is broken" experiences that 
i am having?
 
 
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