Greetings!

I'm new both in this forum and solaris, but with little exp. on Linux
I got a few question this moment, hope you guys would help me out


I've installed solaris 10 and chose full installation,
on P-II 400(yes, hours of installation)
just yesterday as i was looking for a stable/secure
platform as a server os other than the Linux distros.

There was some minor problem such as
unable to get in to GUI desktop after clean installation.
Which solves after i configured using kdmconfig.


Here are my few questions/problems:

1) when i was in full console mode (GUI desktop not loaded at all),
i was in a shell that only support the basic functions,
meaning the keyboard functions such as 'up/down arrows', 'backspace',
'page up/down' in vi are weird, is it the problem with the bash config?
I guess so because the prompt showed neither hostname
and directory name. How can i solve it?

2) In GUI desktop mode, there wasn't KDE/GNOME, just two basic
desktops, and i can't find even one configuration program to config
my server applications such as apache, how could get it back or
manually install it? using pkgadd to install apache using the solaris 10 CD?

3) i chose the full installation, should i already have the server app such as
apache, bind, dhcp?


many thanks for those could answer or just reading it

Kenny

1) likely the TERM variable is wrong
2) you have CDE (aging) and JDS, which is based on gnome out of the box, you can add whichever you like, the simpler way being through blastwave.org.
3) you already have them installed

1. I think Solaris uses ksh by default. Try "chsh bash" or even just "bash"

2. One is CDE (ugly!) and the other is 'Java Desktop" which looks like a rebranded Gnome to me. I'm not sure how to install kde, as I have not tried. I do know there are some public pkg repositories out there. Have a google...

3. Yes. In fact when I installed Solaris they were all (and then some) up and running with ports wide open by default. Lock these down if you are not using them (and directly facing the Internet)...

thanks for the reply!!! But which file can i change the term variable?

Can you check what is the value of TERM when you are logged in at the console ?
Usually, the issue is either that TERM is set by a custom script, while good at the beginning (sun-color), or that the terminal is broken by custom escape sequences.
Also, can you tell precisely what is not working ?
You may expect root default shell to be bash, while it is the standard Bourne shell, and perhaps expect vim to be launched when you enter vi, while it calls the standard vi.