I'll be honest -- just installed Solaris 10 for the first time and am a
Windows guy venturing into the Solaris world. I do have Unix shell
experience, enough to navigate dirs, edit files, and stop/start
services.

The install appeared to go fine, however can someone tell me how to
start the GUI from the # prompt?

Thanks.

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Mike Brophy wrote:

> I'll be honest -- just installed Solaris 10 for the first time and am a
> Windows guy venturing into the Solaris world. I do have Unix shell
> experience, enough to navigate dirs, edit files, and stop/start
> services.
>
> The install appeared to go fine, however can someone tell me how to
> start the GUI from the # prompt?

How did you get the # prompt?  The GUI is presented by default when you
log in, and/or the machine is booted.

I take it you have rebooted aftering installing?

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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Mike Brophy wrote:
> 
> > I'll be honest -- just installed Solaris 10 for the first time and am a
> > Windows guy venturing into the Solaris world. I do have Unix shell
> > experience, enough to navigate dirs, edit files, and stop/start
> > services.
> >
> > The install appeared to go fine, however can someone tell me how to
> > start the GUI from the # prompt?
> 
> How did you get the # prompt?  The GUI is presented by default when you
> log in, and/or the machine is booted.
> 
> I take it you have rebooted aftering installing?
> 

Maybe Solaris doesn't support the OP's vidboard so did the text install
& boots to a console?

Gregm

How much RAM does the computer have?  Did you ever have a GUI while 
installing?  Were you asked to configure a graphics card?

-Yves

"Mike Brophy" <michael.brophy@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1124397269.559402.317870@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I'll be honest -- just installed Solaris 10 for the first time and am a
> Windows guy venturing into the Solaris world. I do have Unix shell
> experience, enough to navigate dirs, edit files, and stop/start
> services.
>
> The install appeared to go fine, however can someone tell me how to
> start the GUI from the # prompt?
>
> Thanks.
> 

Mike Brophy wrote:

> The install appeared to go fine, however can someone tell me how to
> start the GUI from the # prompt?

Just doing that would be:

/etc/init.d/dtlogin start
(then logout from the "root" Text Console Session asap)