OpenSolaris 2008.05

OpenSolaris 2008.05 is now released. I feel it's much easier to install this than to do Ubuntu 8.04 at least on my Laptop because everything works fine including wifi without any hassle. One thing I had to do is to configure keyboard layout (on x window) to swap Caps Lock and Control keys like the following:

1. migrate to single-user mode
   
   From GRUB menu, press "e" to enter edit mode and then hit "e" again to edit the "kernel" line. Add " -m milestone=single-user" to the end of the line. Press return and "b" to boot into single user mode
   
   or
   
   From command prompt, execute "svcadm milestone single-user" as the root user
   
   
2. After login, execute
   
   # /usr/X11bin/xrogcfg
   
   to create & configure xorg.conf. On the GUI panel, do the following to setup keyboard.
   
   - press keyboard icon located topside -> select "Add new keyboard" -> "config" window appears, then configure
   
   Keyboard model -> Japanese 106-key
   Keyboard layout -> Japan
   Xkb options -> Control key position -> Swap Control and CapsLock
   
   - press ok on the "config" window
   - press Quit on the "xorgcfg" window (after doing this, press "yes" to accept default answers for all questions)
   
   
3. execute svcadm to return to the multi-user mode.
   
   # svcadm milestone all