Install Sun Solaris 8 UNIX For Intel x86 PC Knowledge Is Power Recently featured on Sun's Web site as a 'Great resource!' By the BigAdmin sysop.

I would be creating a Solaris 8 branded zone. The procedure for Solaris 9 branded is exactly similar to Solaris 8 branded zone. Creating Flar image. The first thing is to create the flar image from the physical Solaris 8 machine.

This is an old version of this page covering Solaris 8. For Solaris 9 click. Sections on this page: • • • • • • Companion pages: (My new Web site!) If you want to add a bookmark for future reference; for Netscape press Ctrl-D, for Internet Explorer August 2002 We Did It!!! Sun Keeping Solaris x86!!! After announcing in January 2002 that they would no longer support the Intel version of Solaris, Sun reversed their decision!

Thanks to everyone who electronically signed the open letter to Sun at www.save-solaris-x86.org and contacted Sun directly. Solaris 8 x86 is once again available for download and media kits will continue to be sold. (Details on obtaining it are given below.) Solaris 9 x86 will be limited in its' distribution so version 8 will continue to be the primary toy for those of use who wish to have 'Sun boxes' on our home networks.

However, it is more than adequate to learn the Sun operating system as the differences between 8 and 9 are not that great. Solaris is Sun Microsystem's 'flavor' of UNIX. Actually, SunOS is Sun's UNIX. Solaris is SunOS, the GUI interfaces, and everything else that comes with the operating system.

But most people use the term Solaris when referring to Sun's operating system. It is most-often thought of as the operating system for Sun-manufactured systems but that's not the whole story. Just as Linux is a form of UNIX that can run on PCs (Intel x86-based systems), Sun offers a version of Solaris that will run on PCs. As a matter of fact, Sun offers this version of Solaris with free licenses. Having played around with 'Solaris x86' I've discovered some things that may save you some time and headaches if you decide to try it. These things are presented in the sections below.

I also present some information that may be helpful if you decide you want to go whole-hog and get into the non-x86 world of Solaris (i.e. Agent fresco a long time listening 320 sycamore. Video codecs for windows 10. Get into Sun hardware).

If you haven't already done so, you may want to take a look at our site. The first page of this site covers UNIX/Linux in general, and you will find it easier to relate some of the information given here to the 'Win-tel' platform you're probably familiar with. Keep in mind that with the Solaris for x86 software, the 'Sparc, Ultra, or Enterprise System' hardware description in the diagram below would be replaced with 'Intel PC'. If you know UNIX or Linux, you pretty much know Solaris. This is because behind the Sun mystique, Solaris is just another flavor of UNIX. The main difference is the GUI interface. Just as Linux has the Gnome and KDE GUI interfaces, Solaris has a GUI interface known as 'CDE' (Common Desktop Environment).

Also like Linux, Solaris can simultaneously provide workstation and server functionalities. From time to time you will see 'SunOS x. X' where the ' x. X' is a version number like 5.8. SunOS is the character-based UNIX part.