[geeks] Solaris 10 install size

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:04:09PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
> > I saw the "Solaris 10 Complete" book, but didn't like it, and can't find
> > anything else.

Complete Crap.  Don't even bother picking it up. It was written
significantly before Sol10 was even released, and is largely a
search-n-replace on the Sol9 version.

> Que has a Solaris 10 certification book out, but I haven't taken a
> look at it, so I am not sure how useful it would be as a general
> reference.

It's probably better as a general reference than most certification
books, but still not ideal if that's what you're after.  I would at least
like to think that it's technically accurate (which is more than I can
say for most non-Sun Solaris books out there) - but then again I'm
proably a bit biased as I did the technical editing on it :)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789734613

> I second the comment about the "official" documentation, it's quite
> thorough.  My only complaint is that they didn't do a "Solaris 10 for
> experienced Solaris sys admins" kind of thing that just gives you a

Isn't that exactly the name of the course SunEdu run? :)

> kind of high level overview of key areas.  Maybe something in a
> "Before: X, Now: Y" kind of form, with links to the "deep weeds" for
> dealing with the details of Y.  I don't want to have to skim 200 pages
> on a new area just to figure out how to change one thing.

The What's New documents give a very basic overview.  For the most part
the things that have changed in Solaris 10 that you _need_ to know about
have changed so much that you can just ignore everything you knew before
and start with the relevant manual. Zones, SMF, ZFS, etc are all unlike
anything in Solaris 9.

  Scott.