Wednesday Jun 27, 2007
Setting Up Solaris Express, Developer Edition
My 11 year old son Riley, installed Solaris 10 by following a few steps, and was surfing the Internet.
- First, he ran BeleniX, another distribution of Solaris, from a CD, Live CD, which runs directly off the CD, does not effect nor use the hard drive. This is an easy test that proves my hardware works with Solaris. He was surfing the Internet, with Firefox on BeleniX, within a few minutes.
- Next he put the Solaris Express DVD into the computer, and rebooted.
- From the installation menu, he selected Solaris Express, Developer Edition. This option installs Solaris 10, Firefox, Thunderbird, the Sun Studio Compiler, NetBeans, the Sun Java Application Server, games, Star Office, and more.
- Select option 1 - Solaris Interactive GUI
- Select US-English keyboard
- Select English, the language for the installer to use.
- Select the time zone, set the date and time.
- Enter and confirm the administer password.
- If you agree with the standard license agreement, click to Accept and continue.
- For English speakers, accept English, no other locale is needed.
- For simplicity, use the defaults for Disk Selection and Partitioning. An alternative is to have a swap disk slice, and everything else under the other slice ("/").
- Click Install Now, and everything installs.
- Test.
On this install, we could immediately surf the internet with Firefox. After configuring the Thunderbird email client, email was working.
*** All in all, an excellent installation experience!
Click here for my Blog describing how to create a BeleniX Live CD
Riley preparing the computer:
Running BeleniX
Posted at 02:38PM Jun 27, 2007 by Stacy Thurston in Computers | Comments[12]
Posted by R Rajesh on June 27, 2007 at 06:56 PM PDT #
Posted by Joe G on June 27, 2007 at 09:38 PM PDT #
Posted by Sanjay Sisale on June 27, 2007 at 11:46 PM PDT #
Posted by Abhishek on June 27, 2007 at 11:50 PM PDT #
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Posted by Rob on June 28, 2007 at 03:30 AM PDT #
Posted by Jim Grisanzio on June 28, 2007 at 06:52 AM PDT #
Posted by Homer Yau on June 28, 2007 at 10:04 AM PDT #
Posted by Riley on July 04, 2007 at 07:05 PM PDT #
Cool
Posted by Cristiano - Brazil on September 08, 2007 at 09:15 AM PDT #
Cool maybe he can help me ....
Posted by Jonas Emil Sommer on October 01, 2007 at 05:03 AM PDT #
oh wow,your proud my friends 9 year old sister installed it, it has one of the easiest interfaces ever.thats why at 13 ive installed countless windows, linux(ubuntu,debian and arch etc..) and opensolaris (opensolaris10,schillix,nexenta,belenix)
Posted by 67.71.176.138 on July 11, 2008 at 04:05 PM PDT #