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Operating Systems Solaris Retina display Macbook Pro and Solaris compatibility Post 302752637 by DustinT on Monday 7th of January 2013 10:40:09 AM

01-07-2013

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Originally Posted by Peasant

I have not tried, but why not virtualize solaris 11 on Mac or Win 7 ?

That way you will not encounter potential problem with hardware and have much wider test environment to play with, meaning you can try all sorts of things like NFS, iscsi, zfs etc. with no accidental command doing damage to your machine.

Also, snapshots and clones come handy.

You can virtualize 3 or more solaris machines to simulate real networks (dns, dhcp, automated installer etc.)

All in all, you should run virtual machines for this purpose in either mac or win.

Oh yes, I'm running VMware Fusion currently on the Mac OS X to boot into Solaris 10. I'm a huge virtualization user and appreciate all it's benefits. I suppose my interest was more to see how it would interact with the hardware. Plus, when you're running an OS on the bare metal you learn a lot more about how it interfaces. After all, VMware won't be automating so many administrative tasks like adding a device, etc.

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suninstall

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)