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Installing Solaris 8.0
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| imran1430 2001-04-26, 9:46 pm |
| How hard is it to install Solaris 8.0 on a computer and get the computer on the internet using a cable modem with a Cable/DSL router?
I just wanted to, slowly, jump into the Unix/Linux world and thought that Solaris 8.0 would be a good place to start.
If you guys have any recommendations to what I should do to learn more about the Unix/Linux used in the real world, I would love to know about them 
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| Yeti-GBR1 2001-04-26, 9:57 pm |
| Well it took me all of 1 hour to configure Solaris 8 for Intel on a PII-333 computer and patch it through to the internet via cable modem attached to my Win2K server with Proxy 2.0 on...so not hard at all
Yeti the Nutter  | |
| imran1430 2001-04-26, 11:33 pm |
| sweet! | |
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| ccieToBe 2001-04-27, 8:57 am |
| BSD does rock, but if you're a newbie to the Linux/Unix world it would probably be best to start of with one of the easier to use Linux distros first. I think most newbies would be lost if they jumped right into Solaris (I'm not a newbie and I'm lost half the time  ). | |
| Randy 2001-04-27, 11:38 am |
| Yeah, for an absolute newbie, I'd probably recommend Mandrake or Caldera OpenLinux. But only before switching to BSD or Slackware. Heh heh. | |
| imran1430 2001-05-05, 12:45 pm |
| So Mandrake 8.0 sounds good?
I will more than likely be building a new computer for this experiment. | |
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| For a newbie, I think Mandrake or Caldera would be best. Mandrake focuses more on the home user, Caldera on the business desktop, Red Hat on servers. If you try Mandrake you most liekly won't be disappointed, but most likely after getting acclimated, you'll switch to Salck, BSD or Debian. | |
| imran1430 2001-05-06, 12:30 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Randy
For a newbie, I think Mandrake or Caldera would be best. Mandrake focuses more on the home user, Caldera on the business desktop, Red Hat on servers. If you try Mandrake you most liekly won't be disappointed, but most likely after getting acclimated, you'll switch to Salck, BSD or Debian.
Sounds like a good plan
Thx for the input guys! | |
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| NP. If you need any more help getting set up, just let us know. | |
| imran1430 2001-05-06, 10:23 am |
| Once again, thanks for being so helpful 
Aaj kal aachai loag bohat he kum miltay hai. | |
| Randy 2001-05-06, 10:50 am |
| koii baat nahii. |
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