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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Where to get Unix Post 18023 by LivinFree on Friday 22nd of March 2002 07:12:06 AM
Old 03-22-2002
Yeah, that would cost you almost $85 AUD, plus shipping...
Sometimes you can find great deals on used and refurbished Sun hardware from sun.com or ebay... If you keep looking for a few weeks before you buy, you can get a great deal on older stuff that is still great for learning.

As far as basics, a BSD system will be fine; so would a Linux box. It's when you get to administration, or more advanced tasks that it would be useful to have Solaris...

Do you think you'd be able to get your company to get a trainer system for you and your co-workers to use? We have an HP-UX "crash" box here (It's OK to crash it, get it? Smilie ) that is very helpful for learning and testing...

As a side note: I just poked over on eBay to look for Solaris Intel media - It must still be in demand, because some goofballs are paying almost as much or more than the media kit is worth for a used set! There's also one or two that have no bids on them yet...
Odd the way that works...
 

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suninstall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    suninstall(1M)

NAME
suninstall - install the Solaris operating system SYNOPSIS
suninstall DESCRIPTION
install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris. suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system. suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal- lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details. suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa- tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements. USAGE
Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- | | |lation media) | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5) Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations NOTES
It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus. SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 2004 suninstall(1M)
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