Moving Sections (Solaris 10)

Well, I'm finally off to the Server team. I still would have rather gone to the Networking section, but there were no "slots" available. Does anyone here work with Solaris 10? I have no idea where to start. I know nothing about UNIX, I know nothing about BASH scripting, I know nothing about Oracle, and I have zero experience in this area at all. Tips would be helpful. Any free resources?

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alan2308

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is a good place to start for Bash.

slinuxuzer

The last time I checked there was an X86 version of Solaris, try to find this and stand up a VM or two.

DoubleNNs

I'm not working on Servers yet, but I'm trying to make the move in the near future. I have a ton of books that might be useful. However, I have no idea where a good starting point would be or order to read them (for either of us).

Tho you say you have no UNIX knowledge, do you have any Linux experience?

UnixGuy

It's been a year since I touched Solaris. I have close to a decade experience with Solaris and I'm a certified instructor for Solaris 10.

Best books are the ones that Sun used to offer through their official training - you can't purchase those though, they come as part of the training.

you can buy Bill Calkins book, that's a good commercial book. Everything else is freely available in Sun website...ok hold on, it's Oracle website now, let me find the link for you:
Oracle Solaris 10 Documentation

This is basically everything you need to learn Solaris. There are heaps of blogs and examples.

Make sure you first identify whether your machine is a SPARC or X86...if it's SPARC (which I hope it is), then learn 'OK prompt', learn the various run levels...hopefully your work has a free SPARC machine for you to learn, otherwise you can use VirtualBox and run a Solaris 10 x86 VM...

Learn Solaris Volume Manager....then learn ZFS. you have to learn how to partition a disk, which is not a trivial task, but once you learn, you can't make a mistake.

Identify where your logs...

too bad my blog subscription expired, I wrote guides for almost everything.

Solaris is fun, it takes time to learn but once you learn it, it's - in my opinion - the most superior operating system out there. Linux can't compete with Solaris, never will.

Out of curiosity, what kind of industry are you in? Banking/Military?

also, do you have any Solaris 11? For Solaris 11, there's an excellent commercial book by Michael Jang...

Let me know if you need any help