[geeks] Installing Solaris 10 x86: 'Disc you inserted is not a Solaris OS CD/DVD'. At the same point in the install process from my Solaris 10 1/06 copy which I. The Solaris 10 OS is shipped with the CD and DVD media and documentation that you will need to install the Solaris OS for both SPARC and x86 platforms. For a Sun Fire X2270 Server, use the media for x86 platforms.
Many of the Solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install Solaris 11.Here you go with step by step guide.There is no much difference compare to Solaris 10 Using DVD/CD installation method and you need to answer very less questions. Solaris 11 won’t ask you to select the filesystem types like UFS or ZFS since UFS root filesystem will be no longer supported on this version.Since Solaris 11 root filesystem is ZFS,it has great advantage in OS patching using Liveupgrade method.Another important feature over Solaris 10 is that you can have ISCSI disks as root disk.Solaris 11 has many advantages over Solaris 10 and will see those in upcoming days.Here i would like share the screen shots of Solaris 11 installation.
You can install Solaris 11 on vmware workstation 9.0 as guest operating system.
DVD:sol-11_1-text-x86.iso
Installation kicks of Here.
1.Insert the DVD and power on the system.
2.Once the system is boot up ,just press enter to get the below menu.
Here i have selected keyboard layout as US-English (Standard installation)
3.Select preferred language here.I have selected “English”
4.Here you have option to add additional drivers and modify terminal type.
You can also use this menu for OS recovery using option “3 Shell”.Let me go with option 1 to install Solaris 11.
5.This is a welcome screen which you will get in Solaris 11.
Note:In any window,press F2 to continue and Press F3 to go back to the previous screen.
Any time you can quit the installation by selecting F9.
6.Here you have option to select root disks as ISCSI & Local disks.Note:In any window,press F2 to continue and Press F3 to go back to the previous screen.
Any time you can quit the installation by selecting F9.
I have choosen local disks.
7.If you have multiple local disks,Select the disk to install OS.Here my root disk is c8t10d0.
8.Select “Use the entire disk” option since we are going to use ZFS as root FS.
9. Enter the system’s hostname. My host name is “unixarena-SOL11”.
10.In the above menu,you can select “Manually” option to configure IP address manually.You can use TAB key to navigate in the screen.
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11.Here is the window to choose Name service.
12.You have options to select alternative DNS .
13.Now its time to select your timezone.
14.Timezone continues with location details.
15.Set Date & Time now.
16.Time to secure you system by setting complex root password. Here you have option to create a new user as well.
17.If you have oracle support Email_ID /password,Just you enter here to get regular updates from oracle.If you do not have one,do not enter anything just continue.
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19.The actual Installation begins here.All the files will copied to the local disks in this step.
20.Once installation has been completed ,press F8 to reboot the system.
21.After system reboot, your system will boot in local hard disk and you will get below console screen.
That’s it .You have completed the Solaris 11 installation. I didn’t get graphical window unlike Solaris 10. There must be some option to bring up the system into graphical.If we used DVD:sol-11_1-live-x86.iso ,may be we will get graphical screen directly.
You can also use the below method to configure the graphical login .But you need IPS to perform this .
Thank you for reading this article.Please leave a comment if you have any comment.
I'm trying to install Solaris 10to a computer without an optical CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive.
Here is what I have now:
- Solaris 10 ISO got from the sun site (grub installed).
- A running ArchLinux x86_64 installation.
- A running Windows 7 x86 installation with Cygwin (Though I guess it may be not that useful?)
And here is what I have tried but failed:
- unetbootin (a tool that write Linux ISO’s to a USB flash drive, Solaris is not on its support list). After boot from the USB drive, I got some “corrupted kernel” error from the GRUB.
- Manually extract files from ISO to vfat-formatted USB flash disk, and try to install GRUB (0.97) on it under Linux. But GRUB says some “bad stage1/stage2” stuff.
Poweriso
Did someone succeed such thing? I mean, write the content of ISO to USB disk, and install Solaris using it.
Hints/tips/advices are also welcome.
JokesterJokester
3 Answers
After having a lot of failures with unetbootin (I haven't the foggiest why people still recommend it), I found that with some work you can actually does this pretty easily.
You'll need a program capable of exactly copying a partition or drive, bit for bit, including the Master Boot Record. Some are included with Windows that supposedly work, I use a complicated VMWare method, and there are plenty of others (free and not) available. Just Google 'disk drive cloners' (sorry, I don't have any recommendations).
You'll also need a program capable of mounting an ISO as a disc drive. Daemon Tools Lite (an early version without ads) works perfectly.
All you need to do is mount the disc image as a drive and clone that drive/partition to your flash drive. Works perfectly most of the time and is lightning fast (not as fast as unetbootin, but then again, it works).
I've tested the method on Windows, DOS, Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, GPartEd and CloneZilla, and Mac OS X. Worked great on all of them. As long as your system can boot from USB, it should work. There may be issues if it isn't capable of reading a CD filesystem in the BIOS, but if the BIOS can boot from CD and USB (but no CD hardware exists), you should still be fine.
However, you may want to check and make sure your Solaris image is valid. A corrupt kernel error is often the result of a bad disc image. It's not a big deal on flash drives you can re-write, but if nothing works and you keep getting the error, double-check the image.
ssubessube
I would say that this would work, I have seen it work on a couple of Linux distros. Here are Linux Instructions (not sure for what distro exactly, I dont do much with Linux), and here are Windows Instructions.
They seem to be simple generic ISO to Flash Drive programs, so its basically the same as writing it to a CD. Cant say I've ever tried it with Solaris though.
AkkAAkkA
Rufus to make bootable USB's from ISO's. I think it was written by someone just as frustrated with ISO=->USB creation as you are at the moment.
In my own experiencs when UNETBOOTIN failed, it was always Rufus that worked and became my sole bootable ISO --> USB maker.
It's fast, it formats the USB drive for you and it has superb boot loader detection and also self updates itself or just versions of Syslinux if it detects a possible incompatibility.
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