Share Your Expertise

Share Your Expertise!

This page attempts to let everyone share their expertise on doing "something" with OpenSolaris. Share your expertise for the benefit of the rest of the OpenSolaris community.

Before You Begin

The OpenSolaris Information Resources wiki already contains a lot of information. Make sure the topic you want to write about isn't already available. Just use the Search box in the nav bar.

Before adding your own "how to" information, you need to be logged in to the wiki and you need to have editing permissions on the site. For details, see How to Contribute.

Write a "How To" Procedure

  1. Log in to wikis.sun.com
  2. Click the following link to add a new procedure:
    How to procedure
    You will see a dialog box asking you to "Please enter the new page title."
  3. Enter a page title and press OK.
  4. Write your procedure. While writing your draft, you can reference this sample how to template .
  5. Ask for review inputs on the docs-discuss alias.
  6. Add labels to your procedure so that it can be automatically listed on the new user, application developer, or administrator pages. Simply click Edit Labels at the bottom of your procedure.
    1. Add the "task" label to it.
    2. Add one or more of the following role labels, as appropriate:
    • newuser
    • appdeveloper
    • singleadmin
    • smallsiteadmin
    • largesiteadmin

That's all there is to it. The OpenSolaris community thanks you!

List of How Tos

This list is dynamically generated based on the assigned "admin" and "task" labels.

How to Disable the Splashscreen to Debug Boot Problems
How to Create a Mirrored ZFS Storage Pool
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Fusion for Mac
How to Access Files From Other File Systems
How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions in VirtualBox
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Workstation
How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service
How to Get MP3 Files to Play with OpenSolaris
How to Add a Print Client on a Print Server With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Browse the Support and Extra Repositories
How to Create a ZFS File System Snapshot
How to Monitor ZFS Disk Space
Facilitating a Fast Reboot by Using the uadmin Command
How To Set Up a Network-Attached Printer With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
How to Recover Automatic ZFS Snapshots (GNOME File Manager)
How to Update from 2008.11 to 2009.06 with Update Manager
How to Customize OpenSolaris Screen Resolution on a MacBook Pro Running Virtualbox
How to Update to 2009.06 in VirtualBox
How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network
How to Remove an Automatic ZFS Snapshot
How to Configure MySQL with ZFS
How to Set Up a Directly Attached Printer With Solaris LP Print Manager
Using Fast Reboot
How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Add a New PPD File With the ppdmgr Utility
How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
How to Configure Your Apache Server for p5i WebInstall
Checking the Status of Network Connections From the Desktop
Administering Your Automatic Network Connection
Fast Rebooting the Default OS Entry
Support for Fast Reboot
Troubleshooting Conditions That Might Prevent Fast Reboot From Working
More Fast Reboot Examples
Fast Rebooting to an Alternate BE in the OpenSolaris 2010.03 OS
How to Perform a Slow Reboot of a System

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