As far as IT work goes, this was one of the simplest tasks you can face: install an OS. Yet it took nearly all day due to a series of unfortunate turns. It was the kind of day that makes you question ...

Installing Solaris 10 from a set of CDs that I burned myself turned out to take four times as long as I had expected it would and to be a surprisingly annoying process. The first and most time-wasting ...

Yes, I really am that bored.<BR><BR>After following the instructions to download, unzip, and stitch together the Solaris 10 DVD, I pop it in my DVD drive and reboot. My computer tries to boot from the ...

Oracle Solaris is a Unix-based operating system known for its scalability, security, and advanced features like ZFS and DTrace. If you are looking to use Solaris, you don’t have to create a separate ...

Solaris 10 heads for Linux territory Solaris 10 heads for Linux territory By Thomas Henderson Sun is gunning for some of Linux’s rising popularity in the enterprise with the newest release of its Unix ...

We have a Sun T2000 server running Solaris 10, and I'd like to upgrade it to Solaris 10 10/09 via the Live Upgrade route (yup, I know Solaris 11 is out, but don't really want to go that route yet - ...