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Getting Started Guide / minibook outline proposal
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Mar 24, 2009 3:18 PM
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I've been working with various stakeholders on the contents of our Getting Started Guide, which you may or may not know, is published both as part of our support for each OpenSolaris release (e.g., http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/ ) and as a hard copy minibook that is handed out at various public events. In attempt to better plan this minibook, a few folks and I have come up with a top-down outline proposal. Please take a look and feel free to let me know if you have any inputs.
High Level Outline for Getting Started With OpenSolaris minibook:
1. Exploring OpenSolaris
* What is OpenSolaris
* Why Use OpenSolaris
* Installation options
* Overview of tasks to get up and running
2. Preparing to Install OpenSolaris
* Installation roadmap
* System Requirements
* Virtualization options (Vbox, VMware, Parallels)
* Ensuring you have proper device drivers
* Preparing a Multiboot system
* Partitioning a Multiboot system
3. Installing OpenSolaris
* Installing from Live CD onto hard drive
* Running OpenSolaris in VB
* Running OpenSolaris in Parallels
* Running OpenSolaris in VMware
4. Verifying and finalizing your system setup after you've installed
* Verifying network access (wired and wireless)
* Modifying network connectivity using the NWAM GUI (overview)
* Getting additional software (example using Package Manager)
* Accessing repositories to find other software
* Finding device drivers
- when driver is in package repository
- when driver is not in package repository
5. Understanding Users and Roles
* Setting up users (introduce RBAC)
* Executing privileged commands
6. Managing System Services
* Managing services on your system (introduce SMF).
7. Setting up your application development environment
* Provide overview of tools/resources available for OpenSolaris development and what repositories they reside in.
8. Keeping your OpenSolaris system up to date.
* Updating software on your system (introduce use of Update Manager)
* Managing multiple boot environments on your system (introduce using Boot Environment Manager GUI to maintain/use multiple environments.
* Updating from one release to another. * Updating to bi-weekly releases.
Appendixes:
A - Troubleshooting
B - Advanced IPS topics
C - nwamd man reference (reuse)
D - beadm man reference (reuse)
E - Setting up multi-boot with Linux
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Re: Getting Started Guide / minibook outline proposal
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Mar 25, 2009 10:58 AM
in response to: alanm
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Looks good. Is there somewhere I can download a PDF of the minibook?
Thanks
Andrew.
> I've been working with various stakeholders on the
> contents of our Getting Started Guide, which you may
> or may not know, is published both as part of our
> support for each OpenSolaris release (e.g.,
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/getstart/
> ) and as a hard copy minibook that is handed out at
> various public events. In attempt to better plan this
> minibook, a few folks and I have come up with a
> top-down outline proposal. Please take a look and
> feel free to let me know if you have any inputs.
>
> High Level Outline for Getting Started With
> OpenSolaris minibook:
>
> 1. Exploring OpenSolaris
> * What is OpenSolaris
> * Why Use OpenSolaris
> * Installation options
> * Overview of tasks to get up and running
>
> 2. Preparing to Install OpenSolaris
> * Installation roadmap
> * System Requirements
> * Virtualization options (Vbox, VMware, Parallels)
> * Ensuring you have proper device drivers
> * Preparing a Multiboot system
> * Partitioning a Multiboot system
>
> 3. Installing OpenSolaris
> * Installing from Live CD onto hard drive
> * Running OpenSolaris in VB
> * Running OpenSolaris in Parallels
> * Running OpenSolaris in VMware
>
> 4. Verifying and finalizing your system setup after
> you've installed
> * Verifying network access (wired and wireless)
> * Modifying network connectivity using the NWAM GUI
> (overview)
> * Getting additional software (example using Package
> Manager)
> * Accessing repositories to find other software
> * Finding device drivers
> - when driver is in package repository
> - when driver is not in package repository
>
> 5. Understanding Users and Roles
> * Setting up users (introduce RBAC)
> * Executing privileged commands
>
> 6. Managing System Services
> * Managing services on your system (introduce SMF).
>
> 7. Setting up your application development
> environment
> * Provide overview of tools/resources available for
> OpenSolaris development and what repositories they
> reside in.
>
> 8. Keeping your OpenSolaris system up to date.
> * Updating software on your system (introduce use of
> Update Manager)
> * Managing multiple boot environments on your system
> (introduce using Boot Environment Manager GUI to
> maintain/use multiple environments.
> * Updating from one release to another. * Updating to
> bi-weekly releases.
>
> Appendixes:
> A - Troubleshooting
> B - Advanced IPS topics
> C - nwamd man reference (reuse)
> D - beadm man reference (reuse)
> E - Setting up multi-boot with Linux
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Re: Getting Started Guide / minibook outline proposal
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Mar 25, 2009 3:23 PM
in response to: andrewk8
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Yes. You can get PDF for the current (2008.11 based) minibook here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/documentation/
Thanks for responding.
-alan
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Re: Getting Started Guide / minibook outline proposal
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Mar 26, 2009 1:29 PM
in response to: alanm
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> Yes. You can get PDF for the current (2008.11 based)
> minibook here:
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> http://opensolaris.org/os/documentation/
> hanks for responding.
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> -alan
Ah - cool! Thanks.
Andrew.
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Re: Getting Started Guide / minibook outline proposal
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Apr 30, 2009 10:38 AM
in response to: andrewk8
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Andrew, have a question for you. Can you contact me off list (at alan dot mcclellan at sun dot com)?
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