A step-by-step Solaris 10 1/13 x86 install: legacy BIOS and SATA mode, the GRUB install menu and serial console entries, installation types, keyboard and sysidtool screens, the Solaris2 fdisk partition and VTOC slices, ZFS or UFS root, first boot, verification and mirroring.
A screen-by-screen Solaris 10 1/13 SPARC install over the serial console: boot cdrom – nowin, terminal type and Esc-2 keys, sysidtool identification, software groups, ZFS vs UFS root, SMI labels, boot-device, verification and LDoms guests.
How to reach and configure the Solaris 10 and 11 console over serial: ILOM /HOST/console, LDoms vntsd, tip and cu escapes, eeprom and bootadm console settings, TERM and stty fixes.
How to set the host name, time zone, system locale and keyboard layout on Solaris 10 (files and sysidcfg) and Solaris 11.4 (SMF properties, svccfg and sysconfig).
What each Solaris 10 and 11 init state means, how run levels map to SMF milestones, and when to use shutdown -i, init, reboot, halt or poweroff.
Find, inspect and stop processes on Solaris 10 and 11 with ps -ef, pgrep, pkill, kill and nohup, plus the /proc tools, Solaris signal numbers, SMF and zone gotchas.
Solaris Admin Series part 9: the editors that ship on Solaris 10 and 11.4, fixing TERM and terminfo so vi works, the vi commands admins need, and ed for recovery edits of /etc/vfstab and /etc/system.
Why Solaris has several versions of grep, awk, sed and tar in /usr/bin, /usr/xpg4/bin, /usr/sfw/bin and /usr/gnu/bin, and how to set PATH for users, root, cron and SMF on Solaris 10 and 11.4.
How to read, search and index man pages on Solaris 10 and 11.4: the 11.4 section renumbering, man -k/-K, catman -w, the man-index service, MANPATH, missing pages, and the right Oracle docs library.
Which shells ship with Solaris 10 and 11.4, what /bin/sh really is on each, default shells for root and new users, changing login shells with usermod, rolemod and passwd -e, startup files, and writing scripts that run on both.
