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SmartOS Quick Start Guide

This quick start guide is a collection of links to quickly get working with SmartOS. Each link provides additional documentation, or click the asciinema below to skip ahead to essential commands.

  1. Download SmartOS (including creating a bootable USB or virtual machine)
  2. The first boot will walk you through setting up the network, storage, and root password, then reboot
  3. Log in on the console, or via ssh
  4. Create a zone
  5. Install additional software using the pkgin package manager.

View a demonstration of this process.