[SunHELP] Thoughts on Solaris 10 or Solaris express

[Karl.Rossing at Federated.CA]

Well Solaris Express 2/04 got released today....
http://www.sunhelp.org/mt/archives/001445.html

I guess i'll download that and see how it works.


sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org wrote on 02/25/2004 11:16:37 PM:

> > I thought i would give a quick review of installing Solaris 
Express(10)
> > 
> > I Installed it on a PII 350, with 256MB of ram, 30GB Seagate 
Harddrive.
> > 
> > The Installation CD would not install on my system. It would freeze 
when 
> > creating the swap slice on hd.
> 
> I've never been able to get that installation CD to work...I thought it
> just me.
> 
> > 
> > So after much fiddling with the bios and such i installed the software 

> > using cd 1 of 2 and cd 2 of 2.
> > 
> > The installation went pretty slow. It might have to do with the pc 
system 
> > that i was installing it onto or it might just be the slow solaris 
> > install.
> 
> Mine had to be done over a couple of days since my machine is at school.
> 
> > After the install was complete, i rebooted the system. For some 
reason, 
> > the install procedure doesn't ask you for a host name.  sys-unconfig 
> > doesn't ask you for a hostname either. Which is kinda bizarre because 
it 
> > usually does.
> 
>  I think the SPARC version did.
> 
> > 
> > Solaris 10 looks much like solaris 8. It's still got CDE if you want 
to 
> > run that. It's also does have much in the way of software. I suspect 
that 
> > this is by design since the SUN Java Desktop(AKA Linux with sun 
pieces) 
> > probably has more apps. I'm going to have to download openoffice, 
firefox 
> > and ximian.
> > 
> > The software sure runs slow on my PII 350 though... I might try to add 

> > more ram and see what happens.
> > 
> > Thats about it.
> 
> I loaded it as an upgrade on an Ultra 10.  Seems to work OK.  No 
noticeable
> decrease in speed and so far, nothing has crashed or been broken (yet). 
> Next will be my Ultra 30 ;->
> 
> Bob
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