Hi Ramon, For installing other operating systems on top of Solaris, I would recommend VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ And yes, there are differences between Solaris and OpenSolaris. Development of the next version of Solaris is happening in the open at http://www.opensolaris.org and the OpenSolaris releases are snapshots of that development train. So with OpenSolaris you'll get exposure to the new innovations coming in the next version of Solaris. The primary difference you'll notice is with regards to software packaging. Take VirtualBox for example. On Solaris you'll download a file and run a 'pkgadd' command to install it. On OpenSolaris, there's a network based package manager where you specify the package you want and it's downloaded and installed for you. This can be done either from the command line or a GUI (Package Manager). I would recommend installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox to check it out. Here's a screencast on how to do it: http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/screencast_installing_opensolaris_in_virtualbox The screencast uses Windows Vista as the host OS (rather than Solaris), but once you have VirtualBox installed, the steps are identical. It will also give you a good feel for how to install any other operating system you want on top of Solaris. Regards, Brian Ramon F. McDougall wrote: > Greetings to All. > > Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra > 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on > top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. > > I can't find the correct documentation. Is there a difference between my > system and openSolaris? Is there a step by step how-to? > > Thank you. > > Ramon > -- W. Brian Leonard Technology Evangelist 408.404.6884 http://blogs.sun.com/observatory
