HI ........

I was just putting this together for my group. I think this will guide you well.

Remi

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Solaris Installation Guide

Solaris
All servers are installed with the Solaris 8 Operating Systems.
OS was manually installed on each server. No custom jumpstart was initiated due to the incompatibility of software between Sun & Eclipsys.

The following guides you through a quick installation.
Installation could be through command line if you're using a laptop as a connection or GUI interface, either way, the prompts are still the same.

Before you begin: You will need the following information: IP address, netmask and hostname of the system.

1) Installation starts at the OK> prompt, which you can get to by doing any of these methods:
1. Pressing Stop A key sequence on Sun Keyboard (Not recommended on production server).
2. Typing init 0 at the #prompt.
3. Press ctrl-break or shift-break on a pc keyboard if using pc as console through serial port.
4. If auto-boot feature is enabled, then system will boot automatically.
You can disable this feature so that system will give you # prompt in order to start installation.
To disable: type # /usr/platform/sun4u/bin/eeprom auto-boot?=false
Reboot the system.

2) Starting the Installation: Insert either the “Installation” or “Operating Environment”
CD and type boot cdrom at the OK> prompt.
** Either CD will take you through the installation **

The first phase starts with system identification & information about the system. It asks you about the language and locales you want to use
Next, you are to identify: A) The Hostname for the system
B) Whether the system is networked or non-networked
If networked, then provide the IP address & netmask for this machine.


3) Next you will be asked to select the name services
Name services
[ ] NIS+
[ ] NIS
[ ] DNS
[X ] None

Select the service if you have complete details like domain names etc or select none to configure after installation.

4) OS distribution & Disk configuration
After identification is complete the installation process proceeds on to the OS and disk configuration and need your input for these settings. Selection depends on role of your machine

Typical space requirement for Solaris is given here.
[X] Entire Distribution plus OEM support 64-bit 1242.00 MB (F4 to Customize
[ ] Entire Distribution 64-bit ...............1215.00 MB
[ ] Developer System Support 64-bit.... 1154.00 MB
[ ] End User System Support 64-bit ...... 765.00 MB
[ ] Core System Support .............. .334.00 MB
· Entire distribution with OEM has all software with some third party software
· Entire distribution has all software without third party software .
· Developer system has run time libraries for C software etc.
· End user has X windows and CDE environment .
· Core system is without X windows softwares etc.
5) You will be presented with choice to select the boot disk among the disks present in the
system ,unless you have reasons select the c0t0d0 at boot disk.

[ X ] c0t0d0 (17269 MB) boot disk 17269 MB
[ ] c0t1d0 (17269 MB) 17269 MB
overlap partition represents entire disk and is slice s2 of the disk partition .
Next the current layout is given ( if existing ) and you are asked to select between
Automatic and Custom layout of disk partitions.
· Automatic layout make a single partition of entire boot disk.
· Customize option gives and option to create the partitions and select the sizes.
Things to keep in mind while doing interactive or custom installation
· Additional space is required in /var & /home if server is to handle mail and printing as mail and print files are formed in /var & if the user home directories are to be located on /home partition








A sample partition table may look like following.
File system/Mount point Disk/Slice Size
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/ c0t0d0s0 300 MB
swap c0t0d0s1 2000 MB
overlap c0t0d0s2 17269 MB
/usr c0t0d0s3 2000 MB
/opt c0t0d0s4 1000 MB
/var c0t0d0s5 1000 MB

*** The swap partition size depends on the size of RAM in the system if you are not sure of its size keep it double the RAM or more than RAM in the system.

If you are not sure of individual partition sizes of /, /usr /opt & /var make one partition as / and keep its size sufficiently higher than the distribution size you have selected in earlier steps . Always keep in mind the future software that you might have to install like compilers applications etc and log files that will be generated and accumulate in /var directory or partition.
After you have specified the partition sizes it gives summary and error if any
Installation Option: Initial
Boot Device: c0t0d0s0
Client Services: None

Software: Solaris 2.7, Entire Distribution

File System and Disk Layout:
/ c0t0d0s0 300 MB
swap c0t0d0s1 2000 MB
/usr c0t0d0s3 2000 MB
/opt c0t0d0s4 1000 MB
/var c0t0d0s5 1000 MB

One more question is asked about rebooting
[X] Auto Reboot
[ ] Manual Reboot

Afterwards it starts configuring disk making partitions and installing software indicating the progress in a table.
MBytes Installed: 700.66
MBytes Remaining: 0.00


Installing:
| | | | | |
0 20 40 60 80 100

After the installation is complete it customizes system files , devices ,logs , installs patches which are there in OS CD for that release. You should install recommended latest patches later

System then reboots or ask you to reboot depending upon the choice selected earlier .
6) After Installation
After rebooting it asks for new root passed and comes to console prompt where you can login as root.
Install patches, add additional softwares , create users, etc. etc.