Okay, so I'm an experienced Windows user who has used Ubuntu for a number of years. I hate terminals and text commands, I deeply desire to be a basic end user and hate heading into the guts of the system. Heard some good things about Opensolaris, tried the livecd and was impressed by the polished look and feel of things... ...and then I made the mistake of installing it.
First of all, it's put in a new GRUB menu that doesn't recognize Ubuntu, so I can't get back into my old system until I download a new Ubuntu livecd and re-install GRUB. More importantly, Opensolaris is incredibly slow (especially with Firefox). I googled around and discovered that this was probably due to ZFS using up 99% of my RAM at all times. So, I googled and found a way to fix it... edit the "system" file in /etc. Simple, if annoying that I was back to editing text files. Except that in Opensolaris, I can't edit system files as a mere user. I can't log in as root, for some reason, and unlike Ubuntu I can't sudo my way into the file. I'm locked out of my system, and though I'm not a violent person, every time the terminal program tells me its going to tell my supervisor on me for trying to sudo, I want to throw my laptop across the room. I even tried editing the sudolist file, except, well, I need to sudo or root to do that. I googled some more, and I tried to edit the file that will change root so I can log in as root. Need to root or sudo for that too. I'm at my wits end. I'm locked out of the important parts of my system, and really, it is the most frustrating thing I have ever experienced from a piece of software! I don't want to rag on this, because I know you guys put in a lot of work (and it does look gorgeous, and if I could get it to work, I'd love it) but really this is the worst sort of newbie experience I've had from any linux distro ever. Please, can someone tell me how to fix this thing? How do I get sudo (best option) or root access to my own computer? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
