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Are you a new user of the OpenSolaris operating system? If so, you are in the right place! Start here to find information that will help you get your system set up just the way you want it. Either search for tasks by action or by topic. Oh, don't be concerned if you see a line that says "No content found for label(s)...." Titles on this page are dynamically generated, and that message just means that there are no topics in the wiki for that category.

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Accessing

Checking the Status of Network Connections From the Desktop
How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to Obtain More Information About Your Active Network Connection
How to View or Change Printer Queue Properties

Adding

How to Add an Unlisted Wireless Network
How to Manually Configure a Printer by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager

Configuring

Administering Your Automatic Network Connection
Configuring a Fibre Channel Storage Array With COMSTAR (Task Map)
Configuring an FCoE Storage Array with COMSTAR (Task Map)
Configuring an iSCSI Storage Array With COMSTAR (Task Map)
Configuring an SRP Storage Array With COMSTAR (Task Map)
How to Configure Thunderbird Account Settings
How to Customize OpenSolaris Screen Resolution on a MacBook Pro Running Virtualbox
How to Get MP3 Files to Play with OpenSolaris
How to Manually Configure Network Settings
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process
How to Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
Setting Up Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager

Installing

How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Fusion for Mac
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Workstation
How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions in VirtualBox

Migrating

Migrating from Linux to Solaris or OpenSolaris
Migrating from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris

Monitoring

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Recovering

How to Recover Automatic ZFS Snapshots (GNOME File Manager)

Stopping

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Troubleshooting

Checking the Status of Network Connections From the Desktop
How to Disable the Splashscreen to Debug Boot Problems
How to Obtain More Information About Your Active Network Connection
How to Shut Down a System
How to Verify That the NWAM Service Is Running
Problems With Audio in the OpenSolaris Release
Troubleshooting Command Path Problems
Troubleshooting Issues With WEP Password Authentication
Troubleshooting the OpenSolaris Release
Working With the Fault Manager

Updating

How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions in VirtualBox

Tasks Sorted by Topic

Boot Environments

Command Line

Basic UNIX Commands
System Administration Commands
Troubleshooting Command Path Problems

Device Drivers

Desktop

Fast Reboot

Facilitating a Fast Reboot by Using the uadmin Command
Fast Rebooting the Default OS Entry
Fast Rebooting to an Alternate BE in the OpenSolaris 2010.03 OS
How to Fast Reboot a System to a Specific GRUB Entry
How to Perform a Slow Reboot of a System
More Fast Reboot Examples
Support for Fast Reboot
Troubleshooting Conditions That Might Prevent Fast Reboot From Working
Using Fast Reboot

Image Packaging System (IPS)

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Mail Configuration

How to Configure Thunderbird Account Settings

Network Configuration (Automatic)

Administering Your Automatic Network Connection
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process

Network Configuration (Manual)

How to Manually Configure Network Settings
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process

Network Configuration (Wired)

How to Manually Configure Network Settings

Network Configuration (Wireless)

No content found for label(s) newuser,network,configuring,task,wireless.

NFS File System Management

How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to Unmount an NFS File System

Package Manager

Printer Configuration

Getting Started With OpenSolaris Print Manager
How Network Printer Discovery Works
How to Manually Configure a Printer by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
How to Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
How to View or Change Printer Queue Properties
More Information About Printing
Setting Up Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager

Service Configuration

How to Start a Service
How to Stop a Service or Program
Managing Services

System Shutdown

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Update Manager

No content found for label(s) newuser,updatemanager,task.

Virtualization

How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Fusion for Mac
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Workstation

ZFS File System Management

How to Recover Automatic ZFS Snapshots (GNOME File Manager)
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