Installation experience of Solaris ...
Tuesday Sep 25, 2007
I started working from home since last week. I got a brand new Macbook and Parallels on which I decided to install the latest Solaris Express Developer Edition. Well, my manager required that I do, kind of... strongly.
The first time I ever tried to install Solaris on my laptop was a couple of years ago and got stuck rather in the beginning of the process with acronyms and commandline interface. It took several hours of attempt to find my way through installation with no avail. I remember spending the next few days trying to recover the Windows XP on the Vaio I was using at the time where I didn't have the recovery CD. Since then I assumed that installing Solaris is something for engineers and have been satisfied with the version that Sun IT provides on our desktop in the offices.
So when I finally decided to install snv_70b on my home laptop a week ago, I was dearly holding onto my PC as a backup, thinking that my new Mac wouldn't be usable until a few days.
To my surprise, however, installation went quite intuitively. With the new GUI, it was, it really was, a breeze. After some initial steps of a few minutes, installation procedure started. We went out for dinner and when we came back an hour or so later, it was all done and complete. And I didn't have to ask for a technical support. I kept asking my husband -who is also a Sunnie and an engineer-, "Is this really done?"
Now how do I change the Time and Date stamp correctly on Parallels?!
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Hi Melanie,
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