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

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

• 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

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 explainwhen 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