Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
Che Kristo wrote: Type: # man pkg in a terminal If you get a man page for the image packaging system then you are running OpenSolaris, if you get No manual entry for pkg that means you are running Solaris This is not a good test. You can install IPS from SVR4 packages onto a Solaris 10 system. cat /etc/release is much better. -- Alan On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:57, Ramon F. McDougall r...@cyberjet.net mailto:r...@cyberjet.net wrote: John Martin wrote: 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? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org http://www.virtualbox.org). Thank You, Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Thanks Again, Ramon ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
John Martin wrote: 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? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org). Thank You, Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Thanks Again, Ramon ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
Type: # man pkg in a terminal If you get a man page for the image packaging system then you are running OpenSolaris, if you get No manual entry for pkg that means you are running Solaris On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:57, Ramon F. McDougall r...@cyberjet.net wrote: John Martin wrote: 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? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org ). Thank You, Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Thanks Again, Ramon ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
Ramon F. McDougall wrote: John Martin wrote: Ramon F. McDougall wrote: 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? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org). Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Since it says SunOS 5.10, you are running Solaris 10, a previous generation of the operating system. (OpenSolaris would report SunOS 5.11.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
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 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
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? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org). ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Your original message said SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09. This is Solaris 10 10/09 (aka Update 8). ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org