Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
solaris on vmware
Name: chris Date: October 25, 2003 at 04:18:51 Pacific OS: sol 8 CPU/Ram: dual p2
Comment:
Dear All
Can you please help, I have got Solaris to work under Vmware and have downloaded the following files and untared them. But cannot get to install
SUNWxf86u SUNWxf86r
This is so stupid but from my keyboard I cannot find the `
Name: Jake Date: October 25, 2003 at 16:12:03 Pacific
Reply:
It's on the same key as "~", near Escape. The purpose of the "`"s, aka "backticks" in the UNIX world, is to expand to the result of running whatever command is in them. The pwd command prints the working directory. Thus, the command you want to run expands to "pkgadd -d /whatever/directory/you/are/in".
Summary: Hi, Firstly, apologies for the lengthy text I am about to write, but I have tried to address this from a number of angles and would like to go through them so as not to waste your time writing answers...
Summary: I Can't Setup Solaris 8 (Intel x86) on Vmware 3.0 , When I Start Vmware and Insert Boot CD of Solaris 8 , the Error Message is show not ufs Disk , I can't install ...
0 
