Moving Sections (Solaris 10)
mistabrumley89
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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
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Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is a good place to start for Bash. -
slinuxuzer
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The last time I checked there was an X86 version of Solaris, try to find this and stand up a VM or two. -
DoubleNNs
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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?Goals for 2018:
Certs: RHCSA, LFCS: Ubuntu, CNCF CKA, CNCF CKAD | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS Certified Security Specialist, GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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UnixGuy
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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