Welcome!
Welcome to the wiki version of the OpenSolaris System Administration Guide. We are hoping that you will read and contribute to this document. We have added new information for the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. In particular, we added new content for:
- Administering Your Automatic Network Connection
- Managing Printing in the Desktop
- Support for Fast Reboot
- Look for the ZFS snapshot procedures in Managing ZFS File Systems
All of the content from the Back-to-School version of the guide released in August is here. We might need to do some reorganization to make the content less book-like and more web friendly. Please make suggestions!
For those of you with comments, please either respond to an appropriate thread on the OpenSolaris forums, or add comments to any of the discussion pages.
Useful Links
OpenSolaris System Administration Guide Table of Contents
OpenSolaris System Administration Tasks List
Comments (11)
Oct 31, 2008
pkasper says:
I wrote up a procedure on my blog on how to customize the OpenSolaris screen run...I wrote up a procedure on my blog on how to customize the OpenSolaris screen running in VirtualBox. What about adding this to the admin guide?
http://blogs.sun.com/paulkasper/entry/customizing_opensolaris_screen_resolution_running
Let me know if you want me to add the first draft. BTW, it would also be good to have a page where we can add new topic and task ideas for the book.
Thanks,
Paul
Nov 13, 2008
alan.mcclellan says:
I think Localization would like a comment added here when the document is ready ...I think Localization would like a comment added here when the document is ready to be translated.
Nov 14, 2008
kathy.slattery says:
Here's your comment Alan! Ready for 2008.11 translationHere's your comment Alan!
Ready for 2008.11 translation
Nov 20, 2008
dplampin says:
Has there been any discussion about linking to the information under the "New fo...Has there been any discussion about linking to the information under the "New for", "Previous Changes" and "Future Changes" so readers get to the content faster?
Nov 20, 2008
kathy.slattery says:
Diane, Providing links to the pages once they exist should be easy enough to do...Diane,
Providing links to the pages once they exist should be easy enough to do. I just need to remember to come back and change the page after we get the pages added. Maybe I should add a "Under Construction" section for those
pages while they are being added.
Providing links to pages that don't exist yet, like items in "Future Changes", isn't possible. Do you think I should add empty pages, so that everyone could add comments?
-Kathy
Nov 20, 2008
pkasper says:
Kathy, I think we talked about starting a page to list what pages/info we have ...Kathy,
I think we talked about starting a page to list what pages/info we have planned for the future as a way to get help from the community. We could also organize the page to provide a list of planned changes/update to give a status on what is being worked on and who is working on them. I'd be happy to work with you on this.
Paul
Nov 20, 2008
kathy.slattery says:
Paul, This is what the "Future Changes" section was supposed to be. I don't hav...Paul,
This is what the "Future Changes" section was supposed to be. I don't have much information and I didn't want to create "empty" pages, but it sounds like that may not be a good idea. I think I'll remove
the "How to contribute" since you created a generic one for the whole workspace. I can add pages for
the wish list and for specific instructions for creating a page or adding content.
Will that work?
-Kathy
Nov 20, 2008
pkasper says:
I still would like to see the link to the tasks list and the table of contents a...I still would like to see the link to the tasks list and the table of contents at the top of the page. These should be the most visible links on the page, since they point to the guide's content.
Nov 20, 2008
kathy.slattery says:
Paul, Right now there are links to the tasks and topics page in the Previous C...Paul,
Right now there are links to the tasks and topics page in the Previous Changes section. There is a link to the Table of Contents and the tasks page at the bottom of the content. This is where this information is for almost all of the pages in the osoladmin area. So do you think I need to do something different for this page only or do I need to change the "For more information" chunk on all of the pages?
-Kathy
Nov 20, 2008
pkasper says:
I'm all for consistency, but I don't think the main landing page has to follow t...I'm all for consistency, but I don't think the main landing page has to follow the other pages.
When I click on the Admin Guide link, I expect to see either a TOC or a link to admin guide information at the top of the page. Right now, those main links are at the bottom.
The page could be split into two areas:
Main Links:
TOC
Tasks
Status:
What's New or History (which should be a link to another page because it will continue to grow)
What's Next or Future Changes (which should also be a link to another page)
Paul
Nov 21, 2008
kathy.slattery says:
Paul, How about I change this so that I have the current first section, followe...Paul,
How about I change this so that I have the current first section, followed by an "Useful Links"
section (or something like that)? I'll move the Previous changes and future changes to their own page(s) and add the links to the Useful LInks section. Should I give that a try? You can always tell me that it doesn't work!
-Kathy