installing solaris

Hi

can any one tell me how to install solaris on my machine
pentium 3, ram 128, harddisk 20mb.

i am well versed in installing on win2000.

what configurations are needed for machine installing solaris ?

any help will be great
Bye
regards
mercy

Hi,

20MB of Hard disk space is not enough.Installation is pretty
simple insert the Solaris CD and boot from the CD it will take you thru screens which are easy to understand and continue.

Regards

"Easy" being a relative term. If you know the answers to the questions, it's easy. But, if you have no idea what a domain is or what your IP address is, it will be a little more difficult...

Hi, 30th July 2001 22:08 hrs chennai

You need 64 Mb of Ram Min Plus 1 GB of HDD space for the installation.The HDisk space depends upon what type of installtion you do ?

Are you planning solstice suite for the same ?

Which version of solaris 7 or 8. ?

The installation of 7 as so easy i can explain step by step if you could let me know whether you need 7 or 8 installtion ?

Cheers

Padmam

hi,
Requirements for solaris installation

Intel /Sparc system,
1.0 gb hdd,
at least 64 mb ram,
cd rom drive

Also u need device configuration assistant floppy for solaris 7 installtion.
first boot the system from solaris device config assistant floppy and also insert solaris cd in to cdrom drive.

Installtaion is easy. there are four type of installtaion for solaris
(1) Suninstall
(2) solaris webstart
(3) Jumpstart




First two methods r easy to install solaris for begineers.
they asked u for following.

Hostname
networked ?
nis/nis +
date,time and region
disk layout (ucan choose auto layout )

etc..

additional information can be found on http://docs.sun.com
kuckoo

I saw you try to install solaris on a pentium. I guess that must be Solaris for Intel. In this case were did you find Oracle for Solaris Intel? Can you point me on that direction?

If you want an O/S for Intel then you should just install Linux. Its easier.

Jigar

Hi
Thanks for all your help regarding installing solaris.
sorry...my hard disk space is 20gb not 20 mb.

I am new to this O.sys,shall i install 7 or 8 for learning purposes.
padmam, could you please let me know exacat steps for installing solaris 8 or is it same as kuckoo mentioned.

hey jeff hunter one could not join dbasupport forum withot knowing basic things like domain or ip address.is there any other diffculties in installing solaris ? your help will be very good.

bye
mercy

Dear Mercy, 31st July 2001 20:08 hrs chennai

Kuckoo's steps are crisp and enough since you feel confident and thats what more required.

You have not mentioned your system Memory.

I will suggest you with solaris 7 installation since you are new to it.I was also like you before a 4 months back now slowly crawling to feel the power of solaris on server side.

Before proceeding i want to know whether you want to install
dual o/s i.e win2000 with solaris on same system.

Since its going to be learning process try with dual installation.

Here goes steps if you paln for Dual o/s on same system.

i.Boot the system with win95 or 98 boot floppy

ii.Go to boot up sequence in set up set from boot from floppy.Quit.

iii.type fdisk===>choose N or Y (read it)

iv.Remove the existing partitions and create a new partitions as Primary DOS partition 2000MB(exact) and extended DOS partition of 6000MB(exact).Automatically logical drives are created so divide all in to equal 3 Logical drives of size 2000MB each.

v.Format all the drives i.e c:,d:, e: and f: and copy system file to c:===>sys c: from a:

Note:Solaris should be the first installation and followed by win2000.The reason for insisting a partition size not above 8GB is you may later have problem while installing eventhough that can be handled well inside.Initially as far as i have seen is not accepting a partition size of more than 8GB on Intel system.

The logical drives created based on the extended partition is on which solaris is going to sit on.Dont worry about the 12 GB of HD space which after installation of Win2000 can be recognized through

windows start up==>Administrative tool==>Computer Management==>storage==>Disk Management

vi.Now boot from solaris boot floppy and in CD ROM insert the Solaris 7 CD.Dont worry about boot up sequence to be set at CD-ROM, let it be Floopy drive as previously said above.

vii.Now the solaris installtion will run for around 60-90 minutes time.During the process it will identify your system components and if required you can change default values some of them like mouse etc.Which are very very simple.

Here you will find lot of things what kuckoo was telling choose suninstall and proceed.

Note:Give proper port for mouse while installing.
Choose during the installtion the solaris partition the 6GB of HD space.

And while installtion you may find lot of things which may not have been mentioned here which should be interesting for you to guess and evaluate based on your exp to choose and you can do that easily.

viii.Yes now it will ask for pwd for root and it will prompt twice for confirmation.You can also set the same after log on .

ix.yes atlast you have seen the solaris CDE on your screen.Try to open "console" and play round .

x.Now come out from solaris by issuing init 0(shutdown) or init 6 for rebooting.

xi.Now boot the win boot floopy once again and by typing fdisk you can go to view the partitions.

xii.Now you can see only 2 partitions one Pri Dos part and another Non-Dos partion which is nothing but logical drives on which solaris has installed.

xiii.Now change the Non-Dos Partition ACTIVE to Prim Dos Partition as active.

xiv.Now change the boot up sequence from CDROM(instead of Floppy) insert the win2000 cd into CD Rom drive and complete the installtion.

Once again after the win2000 successfull installation boot from win boot floppy change the ACTIVE partition to Non Dos Partition so that BIG DOS screen will appear on which you can choose whether you want to log on to Win2000(normally option ==>1) or solaris(option==> 2).

Default it will go to solaris after less than a minute.

You can also install 4 o/s say sun solaris ,Linux,Win2000 and win98 or 95 on the same system but the seq will little bit change.

Finish this and if interested i can you help you on that too.

Still you have a doubt feel free to raise your doubts in this thread.

Cheers

Padmam

Dear padmam,i cannot get better response then yours from any forum.
exacatly i am looking for dual installation ..both w2k and solaris.
Thanks a million for making the steps clear.

i am in the process of making into solaris certification.

My system's Ram is 128 Mb and 2HD total 30Gb, i think this is sufficient to install all ..win2k,solaris and linux.

i think installing linux also will be in the same theory.
I will conform soon after installation.

can you make what good books are available for solaris in india
i mean advanced books to master solaris concepts.

once again thanks.
Bye
Regards
Mercy

Dear Mercy, 2nd Aug 2001 17:49 hrs chennai

welcome any moment.

We should really thank the forum which gave us a platform to share our knowledge and correspond thats a million dollar worth for all.

If possible participate actively in this forum to make ourself stronger.

Here are some little additions to the previous Dual o/s to multi o/s installtion.

For LINUX
=======

First 2 o/s(sun and win2000) as said previously .
After completion go the Disk manager identify the left out space in the HDD.

Allocate 4 or 6 GB of Partition seperate for LINUX installtion and also format it .

From win2000 run the Red Hat Linux o/s this Linux 7 is very easy process.I heard previous version it was little bit more difficult.

Note:The Sun o/s master boot record will be removed upon the Linux installation.

No need to worry at the next boot up the system wont boot up and stranded.Now insert the solaris boot floppy and go ahead.Now choose which o/s to proceed.

Now 3 o/s is over.

How to install win95 or Win98.
===================

After the sun o/s installtion first install win95 or 98 in c: drive.

Then upon restart of the system making Non-Dos Partition as Active partition go to win95 or 98 and from that o/s install Win2000.

So next time boot up you will see solaris or win then choosing win you will see 2 more o/s Win95 or Win2000 after this you can go for LINUX.

I think initially it looks all big and tedious, confused definitely not .Do the R&D and the Practicall work out will teach you a lot and that will be ever worth it.

Cheers

Padmam

Hi, 2nd Aug 2001 18:15 hrs chennai

With respect to books initially or beginners the Sun Solaris System Administration Manual for certification is the best one.
This book is not for sale.This is given to those who take this course from sun solaris certification teaching centres.Sun Education partners.

Next you can explore the http://docs.sun.com where you get all kinds of informations from documents to white papers etc.Thats really very good.

You need guide for the certification for solaris please post your req in certification forum where definitely i can help the best to clear the exam 100% successfull.This is for anyone.

Please dont post request for certification in this forum.

Cheers

Padmam

Hi

Dear padmam
Thanks for your reply on complete dual installation.

i had one more exam 8i-Backup & recovery exam to go.

so i will be exprementing all this dual installation on my PC as soon i finish my exam and i will reply soon to this thread.

i have to get certified in solaris by December.

Thanks to Dbasupport forum and padmam for enlighting me.

Bye...
Regards
Mercy