11-06-2011
I will offer one more view, Solaris is quite different in every way and there is a learning curve, one alternative you may want to consider is one that I took. I moved to the root of why eveyone builds on Debian, amazing stability and the originator of the apt package management. It has a great selection of software over 28000 packages. It is a rolling release with great stability, so the advantage of LTS is also the same for this. It has all the desktop bells and whistles but I found it to be much more stable. The only thing I went outside to upgrade was the NVidia driver. They offer the proprietary but it is not as current as ubuntu/Mint Fedora etc. So I installed their version, their way. This did all the neccessary blacklisting then I installed the latest Nvidia from the NVidia site. This brought the graphics up to par. The community is the best I have seen, knowledgeable and willing to help. (Every post I put was answered even just to say they would check it out and if they found something let me know) , I had a lot of peculiar questions. I bounced around for years was on Mint then Ubuntu then I went to Debian the source of about half the distro's out there. Solaris is a hefty powerful beast but will take a commitment to learn and does not have the advantages you grew use to in Ubuntu, one poster mentioned Solaris 11, that would be a step in between, he is right and it is geared more for the modern user but does have the time into that genre that Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora have. For me it is Debian all the way, stability, speed and versatility, and it is on like almost every platform out there literally amd64, armel, hppa, kfreebsd,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc and sparc. Hope this helps( I sounded like a commercial but I can't help it, I bounced around for years.)
--jerry
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
install-solaris
install-solaris(1M) install-solaris(1M)
NAME
install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
install-solaris
install-solaris invokes the Solaris Install program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.
The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:
For SPARC machines:
128 MB
Minimum physical memory for all installation types
128 MB
Minimum physical memory required for windowing system
384 MB
Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation
For x86 machines:
256 MB
Minimum physical memory for all installation types
256 MB
Minimum physical memory required for windowing system
512 MB
Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation
In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number of fea-
tures available.
install-solaris exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the for more
details.
install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
installation media. Refer to the for disk space requirements.
Refer to the for more information on the various menus and selections.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- |
| |lation media) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)
It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.
23 Sep 2005 install-solaris(1M)