I just installed solaris 10 on a machine. When it boots up it asks for a console login and password. It did not ask to create one when I was Installing. Can someone help me? Thanks.

There should have been a step during the installation prompting you to enter the root password twice, but most of my tinkering lately has been with Solaris Express and the community release, so I could be wrong. Try root with a blank password or root as the password. It also bothers me that you're getting a console login. Did you install in console mode or X? Does X try to load then spit out a bunch of errors on the console? Are you running directly on the PIII or on VMWare?

I am running directly on the Harddrive. All I did was put the disk in and follow the instructions going with default settings. I left the root password blank. So there is a GUI? How Do I get to It? I am a newbie to Solaris. Is there a Version that is easier to set up like Windows or Suse Linux is? Thanks

If you installed the full distribution (all 4 CDs), you should have the GNOME-based "Java Desktop" as well as CDE, which exists mostly for people lost in the past. Any video chipset in a PIII should be supported, so I don't know what's going on. Try logging in as root and running "kdmconfig". If you have the option to use Xorg, select it. If it tells you to configure Xorg, run /usr/X11R6/bin/xorgcfg when kdmconfig is done and quit the config program, saving to /etc/X11/xorg.conf when it prompts for a location. If you want a version with better hardware support, try a Solaris Express community release. Solaris is being open sourced, so expect more user-friendly distros to pop up eventually. Right now the only OpenSolaris distro is SchilliX, which doesn't have an installer, and most of the installation instructions are wrong.

I installed from the dvd. Boy was that fun to put together. Thanks for the help I will give it a try.

I'm using VMware to have solaris 10 on my XP home edition and it will not conect to the internet! what can I do?

Dan, my guess is you either didn't configure Solaris for DNS or you misconfigured VMWare and XP. I can't help you much with VMWare on XP because I can't remember the last time, if ever, I used VMWare on Windows. In Solaris, run "/sbin/ifconfig -a". You should see a "pcn0" device with a 192.168 IP address. If you don't, report the results. Also check the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have "files dns". If DNS isn't in there, it won't work. You'll also need an /etc/resolv.conf file that'll look something like this: domain localdomain search localdomain nameserver 65.43.19.26 nameserver 206.141.192.60 but with the IP addresses of your nameservers. You can find them in XP by running "ipconfig" in a console.