How to Install Solaris 10

∂ : Action to Take : Yes this is UNIX and no, it is NOT user friendly !

I had to put in a little page somewhere that shows you what happens when a real green newbie person walks up to a Solaris machine and just types “help” blindly. As if they were going to get anything that even closely resembles help that way!

$ help Enter the message number or SCCS command name: help help: help [arg] (When all else fails execute "help stuck".) $ help stuck stuck: The SCCS help facility provides limited information about SCCS commands and error messages, respectively. Most SCCS error messages provide a code (in parentheses) that you can use as an argument to help. help [ | ] More information about sccs commands can be found in the ``SunOS Reference Manual,'' or by using the "man" command. Man pages for SCCS commands have an "sccs-" prefix. To do a man on the SCCS help command, type: man sccs-help If the message includes a system error number, refer to Intro(2), for information about the error that occurred. In some cases, SCCS will fail when attempting to write on a file system that has been mounted read-only. $

Here is where the totally green newbie UNIX user just blindly follows the instructions on the screen as they try to find some guidance :

$ man sccs-help Reformatting page. Please Wait... done User Commands sccs-help(1) NAME sccs-help, help - ask for help regarding SCCS error or warn- ing messages SYNOPSIS /usr/ccs/bin/help [argument...] DESCRIPTION The help utility retrieves information to further explain errors messages and warnings from SCCS commands. It also provides some information about SCCS command usage. If no arguments are given, help prompts for one. An argument may be a message number (which normally appears in parentheses following each SCCS error or warning mes- sage), or an SCCS command name. help responds with an expla- nation of the message or a usage line for the command. When all else fails, try `/usr/ccs/bin/help stuck'. FILES /usr/lib/help directory containing files of message text ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- butes: ____________________________________________________________ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | | Availability | SUNWsprot | |_____________________________|_____________________________| SEE ALSO sccs(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs- delta(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs- rmdel(1), sccs-sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), what(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 Last change: 24 Feb 1998 1

That probably means nothing and so thus we enter into the pit of help hell :

$ help me ERROR: Key 'me' not found (he1) $ help help help: help [arg] (When all else fails execute "help stuck".) $ help man ERROR: Key 'man' not found (he1) $ man help Reformatting page. Please Wait... done User Commands sccs-help(1) NAME sccs-help, help - ask for help regarding SCCS error or warn- ing messages SYNOPSIS /usr/ccs/bin/help [argument...] DESCRIPTION The help utility retrieves information to further explain errors messages and warnings from SCCS commands. It also provides some information about SCCS command usage. If no arguments are given, help prompts for one. An argument may be a message number (which normally appears in parentheses following each SCCS error or warning mes- sage), or an SCCS command name. help responds with an expla- nation of the message or a usage line for the command. When all else fails, try `/usr/ccs/bin/help stuck'. FILES /usr/lib/help directory containing files of message text ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- butes: ____________________________________________________________ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | | Availability | SUNWsprot | |_____________________________|_____________________________| SEE ALSO sccs(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs- delta(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs- rmdel(1), sccs-sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), what(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 Last change: 24 Feb 1998 1 $

The situation rarely gets better from here.

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