OpenSolaris was already out before I joined Sun so I had a chance to play with Solaris Express Community release for couple of months and actually look into the source code online thanks to Chandan's OpenGrok. Still, with all these goodies it required fair amount of exploration before I figured things out. Being a BSD person some of them were not surprising, whereas some of them slowed me down substantialy.

I don't remember now the origin of the thought to summarize the installation steps and basic steps after installation to make the system more useable, this is not important. Anyway, the slides containing all of this information (and more) were made.
The slides were originaly meant for CZOSUG Bootcamp where people brought their laptops and installed Solaris on them. I have created the slides together with Jan Pechanec . After watching both external people and new-hires struggle with basic steps after completing Solaris installation I think they could be used also to ease those post-install how-do-I-set-this steps.

They are not perfect, could contain errors (please do report them) but here you go:

Simple Solaris Installation slides

Also, do not forget to look at recently founded Immigrants community at opensolaris.org which contains other goodies such as links to Ben Rockwood's Accelerated introduction to Solaris. Also do not forget to subscribe to the Immigrants mailing list.

Ahoj [1], I am Vladimir Kotal and have been working for Sun since February 2006 as "Revenue Product Engineer" in security "technology-management" team [2]. This means that my main job is to fix security bugs (both vulnerabilities and common bugs) in Solaris. I usually work from offices in Prague.

For the time being (as of November 2006) I am the only member of Solaris RPE security technology-management team in Europe.

My fixes usually have to do something with following technologies/products: IPsec, SSH, OpenSSL and crypto. In this blog I will try to present not only security technologies but also Solaris/OpenSolaris-related stuff.

[1] "Ahoj" is "hello" in Czech.
[2] There is also "Security Engineering and Coordination" team which provides fixes for vulnerabilities