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02-27-2004

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Solaris and HP-UX are both UNIX.

All the BSDs are also real UNIX, these are good options for you to get familiar with UNIX with no outlay and on cheap x86 hardware.
freebsd
openbsd
netbsd
Are all examples, freebsd is the most friendly to get going with IMHO.

There are far to many Linux flavours to give anywhere near a complete list, but distributions like Fedora, Mandrake and SUSE are all very good as a first step into the water.
But If you really want to learn Debian and Slackware allow you to really know your system and get down and dirty. They hide very little from you and dont impose (m)any bizarre patches or default configurations.
Slackware is rather similar to BSD in its installer and the way it inits and other little nuances.

NB. Linux != UNIX, Linux is unix-like. It was designed to operate like UNIX but does not have the same heritage. Linux is Posix compatible and can run ELF binaries and has numerous more similarities

As far as commercial unices go, I cannot provide you with much information. But unless your college has copies of them for students then I strongly doubt you will be able to afford most of them.
(Solaris x86 can be found cheaply on ebay)

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installer(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     installer(1M)

NAME

       installer - Solaris Web Start installer utility

SYNOPSIS

       installer [-locales list] [-nodisplay] [-noconsole] [-debug]

DESCRIPTION

       The  installer utility invokes a Web Start install wizard sequence which will lead the user through a sequence of installation panels. This
       installer utility is found on many CDs that are shipped with Solaris and it will be found among the top level files of these CDs.

       When the installer is on a CD being accessed from a desktop file manager, the installer can be double clicked  to  start  the  installation
       sequence. If the user is not currently the system's root user, the root user password will be requested.

       The  installer  utility	can  also  be  run  from  other  UNIX scripts. Usually, a script is used in conjunction with the utility's -nodis-
       play option.  Add the -noconsole option for non-interactive scripts.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -locales list   Selects product translations for install, corresponding to the specified list of locales if the specified  locale  transla-
		       tions  are present on the installation media. Locales are supplied in a comma-separated list following the -locales option.
		       An example list would appear as follows:

		       installer -locales fr,de,it

		       This would install products with translations for the French, German, and Italian locales.

       -nodisplay      Runs the install without a graphical user interface. Use the default product install unless it was modified by the -locales
		       options.

       -noconsole      Run  the  install  without any interactive text console device. Useful when paired with -nodisplay for non-interactive UNIX
		       script use.

       -debug	       Outputs extra information about what the install is doing. Mainly for install diagnostic purposes.

FILES

       /var/sadm/install/logs	       location of installation log files

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