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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are hardware maintainers who have computer experience but no Sun hardware or UNIX operating system experience.  

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Understand basic computer concepts, such as hard drives, memory, and read-only memory (ROM)
• Be able to use a text editor

 

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Differentiate between the general characteristics of the Sun desktop product line
• Understand the basic concepts of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
• Describe the Solaris OE file structure and navigate the file system
• Describe the boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) and its functions
• Use the vi text editor to create and modify selected UNIX files
• Start up and shut down a Sun desktop in an orderly fashion
• Trace the boot-up process and the firmware, software, and hardware
• Execute the format utility to correctly partition a disk drive
• Install the Solaris OE on the Sun desktop product line
• Mount local disks and removable media, and access them as a file system
• Use basic networking commands
• Install, configure, and manage the NFS client/server environment

 

Related Courses

After:

• Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-239)
• Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance (SM-210B)
• Sun Enterprise Server Maintenance (SM-240)

 

Course Content

Module 1 - Sun Architectural Overview

• List some of the current Sun hardware and software technologies
• Describe the processors used in Sun desktops
• List some of the different bus types used in Sun desktops

Module 2 - The Solaris Operating Environment

• List the four main components of a computer
• Describe the three main components of the Solaris OE
• Identify the most common shells in the Solaris OE
• Define daemons and virtual memory

Module 3 - Features of the Common Desktop Environment

• Describe the CDE front panel
• Demonstrate the Login Manager
• Add and remove workspaces from the front panel
• Add an application to the Front Panel
• Demonstrate how to customize your work environment
• Lock your desktop
• Describe the File Manager

Module 4 - Accessing Files and Directories

• Describe absolute and relative path names
• Identify and describe the parts of a command line
• List the contents of directories and their file types
• Identify standard metacharacters
• Demonstrate the use of wildcard characters
• Create and remove directories

Module 5 - Using the vi Editor

• Start and save text in vi
• Describe the different modes in vi
• Explain how to set vi options
• Create and delete text in vi
• Perform search and replace functions in vi

Module 6 - The Boot PROM

• Identify basic system configuration information
• Perform basic hardware testing
• Create and remove device aliases
• Use boot command options to observe system boot problems
• Use the Solaris eeprom command to modify electronically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)
• Describe different options to the boot command

Module 7 - The Boot Process and Run Levels

• Identify phases of the boot process
• Explain the main purpose of the /sbin/init program
• Describe how the kernel initializes
• Describe the functionality available at the different run levels
• Describe the correct way to change run levels

Module 8 - Disk Configuration, Naming, and Partitioning

• Identify logical device names used to reference disks, and explain when they are used in the Solaris OE
• Describe the geometry of a hard disk
• Describe the physical device names used to identify a system device
• Display system configuration information with the prtconf command
• Describe the format utility and how to partition a hard drive

Module 9 - Introduction file systems

• Define the different types of file systems
• Describe the Solaris OE file system hierarchy
• Create and explain the ufs file system
• Describe the fsck utility and how to use it to repair a file system
• Display disk space and file system usage

Module 10 - Mounting Files Systems

• Mount and unmount local file systems
• Explain files and the file structures that mounting affects
• Describe how to add and mount additional disk drives
• Show the mountall and unmountall commands

Module 11 - Installing the Solaris Operating Environment System

• Use a step-by-step interactive lab exercise to install the Solaris OE on a Sun desktop

Module 12 - Software Package and Patch Administration

• Display software package information
• Adding a software package from the CD-ROM
• Obtain current patch information and patches
• Verify current patches installed on your system

Module 13 - Network Basics

• Describe the client/server network environment with Solaris OE
• Log in remotely to another machine on the network
• Identify users logged in on the local network
• Use various troubleshooting commands to verify network functionality, and determine local network parameters

Module 14 - NFS Commands

• Describe the difference between local file systems and the Sun NFS distributed computing file system
• List NFS server and NFS client files and how they are used
• Correctly use the share and mount commands

 
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