Solaris

Hi all, Im new to the forum and was just wondering if anyone can help me. Im working in a Unix environment at the moment and have decided to take up learning Sun Solaris 10 however im struggling to find and good learning books / websites, can anyone point me to any good sites that might help me out, im only just starting and have only been in my Unix role for about 5 months but given the nature of the business only doing level one stuff and nothing really technical.. any help or advise will be MORE than welcome! Thankyou,

The best and in my opinion only real way to learn it to get hold of one or more machines that you can reinstall ( break ) modify and do whatever you want with. The only way to learn is hands-on.

As for books, I honeslty don't believe there is any good step-by-step book out there. Personally I would suggest you take the Solaris install and admin docs and go through the various tasks in those.

Thanks for that, Il take your advise and get my hands dirty as it were. cheers.

the best way to learn is to do it yourself install, repair, create/destroy raid 0,1,5; restore data; cluster two server; install applications; play with audit/hardening;etc. studying alone is not enough.

it's easy to do that in vmware/intel. you're problem is sparc but there's second hand computer with sparc, you can buy it for cheap $50, try ebay.com. btw, if you have heard this true story, that 3 years ago, someone bought an ibm mainframe computer for half million, but they sold it last january for 40k only.

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itik

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You willl probably want to look at the Ultra 5 or 10 Desktops, as they are small, quiet and have low power consumption, but I've also had people take home some machines from the Workgroup and Enterprise sections for home use/learning experience.

Since you're going to be using this for Solaris 10 experience, make sure you check out Sun's Solaris 10 Hardware Requirements to make sure you get a system with enough RAM, disk, etc. The previous link lists Solaris 10's general hardware requirements, while this page gives a specific list of Sun systems that will run Solaris 10.