From jzygmont at solarflow.net  Mon Apr 17 21:03:00 2006
From: jzygmont at solarflow.net (Justin Zygmont)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:03:00 -0400
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] question
Message-ID: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>

Hi, I am getting aquainted with solaris 10, and I have the following 
questions, if anyone can help, thanks.

1. The docs don't seem to mention about the part where you select the 
products to install:

-Solaris 10 extra value software
-Solaris 10 Documentation
-Java Enterprise system
-solaris software companion

Its actually the next screen that asks you how much to install: (entire 
system, entire system OEM, etc.)

2. When setting up slices, what is overlap?  LVM?  does it matter where 
it is located?

3.  What is the Sun X server?  that's not openwindows is it?


Thanks, Justin



From white.wristband at gmail.com  Tue Apr 18 05:52:24 2006
From: white.wristband at gmail.com (Jeremy Teo)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:52:24 +0800
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] question
In-Reply-To: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>
References: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>
Message-ID: <19aada300604180552i2f234879l24b83a921f390446@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Justin,

just answering what I can.

On 4/18/06, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont at solarflow.net> wrote:
[snip]
> 3.  What is the Sun X server?  that's not openwindows is it?

Solaris now ships with Xorg (on x86/amd64) and Xsun (SPARC). From what
I know, they are moving to Xorg on SPARC as well.

Hope that helps. :)

--
Regards,
Jeremy


From stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 18 06:16:14 2006
From: stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com (Stefan Parvu)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:16:14 PDT
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Re: question
In-Reply-To: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>
Message-ID: <19851386.1145366204923.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

Hi Justin,

1. To install the products you mention you would need to have the DVD or CD media sets. You can however do install them later without any troubles.

A fresh install, a complete one, will require to choose entire system

2. You can read more about Disk Partitioning and Slices:

http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093
and the Solaris Volume Manager: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520

3. The X server used in Solaris x86 is Xorg. the one used in Solaris SPARc is Xsun.

Good luck,
Stefan

PS: You might need to start to read short guides about how to for very first time install Solaris. Try to practice several times. It is not hard.
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From kaboom at oobleck.net  Wed Apr 19 06:37:25 2006
From: kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:37:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] question
In-Reply-To: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>
References: <444464F4.7030507@solarflow.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604190926460.14297@urd.oobleck.net>

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> 2. When setting up slices, what is overlap?  LVM?  does it matter where it is
> located?

The overlap slice is a slice which represents the whole disk. Not sure 
what platforms you're experienced with, but in Linux it's somewhat like 
operating on /dev/sda (whole first scsi device) versus operating on 
/dev/sda1 (first partition on first scsi device)

Generally just let format or whatever create it as slice 2 automatically

It doesn't really have anything to do with LVM. Solaris does have volume 
managers - there's SVM and the new ZFS stuff included, or Veritas as a 
commercial add-on

later,
chris