Solaris 8 on VirtualPC
Sunday 10 April 2005 ◷ 00:44
Because I sometimes have to be root on a production Solaris machine, I figured it couldn't hurt to install Solaris on a VirtualPC on my workstation to play with it without pissing of users. Downloading the ISO's went well and the installation wasn't hard either. Solaris is a bit unusual in it's ways and look and feel, but it really surprised me that I could install it in a day by just downloading and installing it in the background while doing other stuff. Now I'm thinking of installing Solaris 10 on some box to increase the number of browser testing environments, but getting the SparcStation 5 up and running would be nice too. Apparantly I only have to clean the keyboard with warm water and it's ready to type in the root password and admin it back onto the network. VirtualPC doesn't have those earthly problems however...