Installing Solaris 10 OS

Hi , All
I got problem when i am using solaris for the first time , i have a leptop DELL Inspiron 6400 with 1 GB RAM and 2GM CPU , when i boot the solaris from DVD after i choose SOLARIS from the black window the next step when he showing the device configuration , the system got freezing without any action led from the hardisk or cdrom , please can you help me to solve this problem ,i will be realy apprecited...
your immediatly reply it will be highly appreciated also..
NOTE: Please I've attach the link below to see my error problem in wich place...
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-003.html
Regards....
Edited by: zakprof on May 1, 2008 12:17 AM

I have gone through similar problem when installing oracle 10g in linux. You should follow the oracle installation documentation and make sure that all required OS patches and packages must be installed before starting the oracle installation. In my installation few OS packages was missing in the oracle documentation too and searching over the net solved the problem. I have installed few extra OS packages (RPM) and installed oracle successfully.
Regards
Asif Kabir

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Hi Admins
I am getting the following problem after the installation of Solaris 10 on a sunfire v440.Can someone please help me out.I am not sure about the cause of the error output because i am still a junior solaris admin.
Please help me fix this problem.Any Ideas are welcome.
============================================================
Sun Fire V440, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.17.2, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #63181061.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:c4:11:5, Host ID: 83c41105.
Boot device: disk File and args:
WARNING: cannot open system file: etc/system
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-33 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
Error -256
Evaluating:
Tried to access instance-specific data with no current instance
ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
Evaluating:
Error -256
Stack Underflow
========================================================
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hi everyone
here is how I fixed my dual boot & internet connectivity failure problems. I'm explaining in detail to help any Solaris newbie (like me) having same problems: ( as I didn't find any REAL Help thru Sun Help Documents / Pages )
My special thanx to " Phil Brown " ( who helped me alott on this )
First to get rid of Dell's Diagnostic Partition & System Recovery Partition I re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition & at installation I made 4 Partitions of my Dell 9150 ( x86 Intel Pentium Dual Core ) 238 GB Hard Drive.
(1) C: 100 GB for Windows XP ( NTFS )
(2) D: 80 GB for Solaris 10 ( RAW )
(3) E: 50 GB for Linux ( RAW , which I haven't installed yet )
(4) F: 6 GB (RAW)
(5) G: 2 GB Un-Allocated Space
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Here's how I installed Solaris 10 11/06 :
(1) On the next screen after "Loading Stage 2 ... " I selected " Solaris "
(2) Selected " Solaris Interactive (default) installation
(3) Hit "enter" to accept proposed Windows configuration screen it displayed
(4) Selected 0 = English as language (you need to take cursor into white window so you can type 0 into it, otherwise u can't)
(5) hit NEXT
(6) Selected "Networked" option
(7) Selected YES to "Use DHCP for e1000g0 ( Intel Pro/1000 Network Adapter )
(8) Selected NO to "enable IPv6"
(9) Selected NO to "enable Kerberos"
(10) Selected DNS as "Name Service"
(11) entered " f.root-servers.net " as Domain Name
(12) Server's IP address : 192.5.5.241 ( you can choose the one that closest to you by visiting http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/f-root/ )
(13) Search Domain: Left all boxes empty ('coz when I tried to put any IP's into 'em, it generated " SysidgenSyserr " and have to re-start installation )
(14) Geographic Continent / Country / Region: Americas > U. S. > time zone
(15) hit NEXT on Date & Time Screen
(16) Entered password twice
(17) Selected YES to "enable Remote Services"
(18) hit CONFIRM
(19) Clicked NEXT on Solaris installation Welcome screen
(20) Selected NO to " Reboot Automatically " and YES to eject additional CD/DVDs
(21) Clicked OK on NOTICE
(22) Specified CD/DVD as " Media from which you installing Solaris "
(23) Check ACCEPT & hit next
(24) Selected "initial install" & hit next
(25) I choose "Custom Install" > NEXT > North America > and checked both, " English ( U S ) ( en_us) & English ( U S, UTF-8) (en_us.UTF-8) and hit next
(26) Selected English (US, UTF-8) as initial locale > NEXT
(27) Selected " Solaris 10 Extra Value Software " > NEXT
(28) Selected NONE to " Web Start Ready Product Scan Location " > NEXT
(29) Selected " Entire Group - Default Packages " in Solaris software group screen > NEXT
(30) Selected " c1do(bootdisk) " > NEXT
(31) " c1d0 " Selected > NEXT
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(34) I choose NO to " Preserve Data Warning " (the 80GB partition)
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(37) When installation finishes hit " Reboot " & when PC was restarting I ejected DVD manually
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(39) At sign-in screen, I signed in as, user name: " root " & enterd password (which I typed at installation)
(40) I choose JAVA Desktop System
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- Jags Desai

"A Linux fdisk partition was found on this disk (c1d0), which is the default bootdisk. Having a Linux fdisk partition is not supported"
It might not be supported, but it works fine for me on my thinkpad :-) .
redhat/solaris/xp.
You can't just use the linux grub, though, because it won't understand
solaris 'slices within partitions'. You need to get Solaris to install
grub itself (in fact, you can't stop it doing so, which is rather unfair),
and then add in the linux * xp entries to Solaris's /boot/grub/menu.lst
(== grub.conf) to get it to pick up fedora & xp. Chainloading xp worked
fine for me. Chainloading RHEL4/5 doesn't, so I had to cat the grub.conf
from red hat on to the end of solaris's menu.lst. Stick red hat's grub.conf
on a USB pen or just write it down before putting Solaris on, otherwise you'll
have to boot linux rescue of a red hat CD in order to get hold of it after
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Hi all,
Sorry to bother you with this one (I went through all documentations/manuals and could not find straight answers to following
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BTW, I currently have Solaris 7 for Intel.
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"loadkeys: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
Killed
kbd: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
Killed
cfsfstype: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
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/sbin/swapadd: swap: not found
WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found. Most likely the
mount of /usr failed or the /usr filesystem is badly
damaged. The system is being halted. Either reinstall
the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt
to recover."
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I found at the start of the installation this display
"WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/sd@0,0 (sd0):
Error for Command: write(10) Error Level: Informational
Requested Block: 142093520 Error Block: 142093520
Vendor: COMPAQ Serial Number: 3KT2R4Y3
Sense Key: Soft Error
ASC: 0x5d (<vendor unique code 0x5d>), ASCQ: 0x10, FRU: 0x10"
i do not know if is a hard drive problem. Please help me because i tried three times the installation but the problem still exists

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You may have made some initial selections while prompted at the beginning of the install process, that accidentally omitted essential system files.
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The errors are not calling out either of the two possible internal drives.
Infodoc 21216 lists a few default system device paths, and ...Sun Fire [TM]v120 / Netra[TM] 120
PCI slot 0               /pci@1f,0/pci@1/<device>@1,*          33mhz-32bit-5V
disk 1                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
disk 2                       /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
External SCSI Port          /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1/<device>
CDROM                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/sd@0,0
Network 1               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@c,1
Network 2               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@5,1

How to install Solaris 8 from Hard disk?

Hi.
Im downloading Solaris 8 from a free FTP server. Some body can explain me what i need to install Solaris 8 from my hard disk?

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Lee

We can't install Solaris 8 - IBM PC SERVER 315

Hello:
We are trying to install Solaris 8 (Intel) (02/02) in an IBM PC Server 315.
Some words about it:
- 128 Mb RAM
- Pentium Pro 200 Mhz
- Adaptec AHA-2940U/2940UW Ultra SCSI in PCI bus1,Slot 4 (Info from Solaris install) (Target 7)
- Hard Disk IBM SCSI (Target 0)
- CD-Rom SCSI IBM CDRM00203 (Target 6 of SCSI) (info from Solaris install)
We have a big problem.
We can't install Solaris from CD.
After Loading kernel , when it begins Searching /dev and /devices...we see this text in the screen repeated a lot of times:
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci1011,24@2/pci9004,8178@1(adp0):
timeout: abort device, target=6 lun=0
And before this something like it has some problem and begins a resinc ??
Please Could you help us?
Solaris has been purchased from Sun on 12 March 2002
A lot of Thank's!
P.D: Please, excuse my poor English.
A lot of thank's.

two other severs wouldn't run the cd either? Break it down a little it will be more solvable. We will create two separate problems with this. First we will check the cd disk itself. Put in another system and install solaris. If that works, move to the cdrom drive....move it to the same computer you just installed solaris on...if it works then it is another problem.

Can I install solaris on a second hard drive?

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Tottaly agree with the last post. Check if your hardware is in HCL, there is a free program you can download from Sun Download page, you burn it to CD and reboot, then it will provide you with all needed information. And if something is not in the list, you will get a hard time seting it up (there are a lot of unofficial drivers). So as an example: networkcard will be hard to install and set up. So check first.
As from my experiense conserning instalation, I would suggest to do so:
(in a way as the last post)
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Please help me! To Install solaris 8 on Intel plateform

Hi All,
During when I tried to install Solaris 8 on my machine I repetadely used to encountered following problem listed below.I have also checked my motherboard's chipset with Sun's Hardware Compatiability List, it is there.
My Machine: Intel PIII
Motherboard: Intel 820
Processor Speed : 600Mhz
Ram 128Mb
Operating system to be installed : Solaris 8
The problems:
1. During the boot time I used to see:
SUN-OS Intel Plateform edition Primary Boot system VCN 2.0
Warning: ACPI table not in reclaim memory.
2. When This window disappear I will have this window:
SUN-OS secondary Boot Version 3.0
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting system
3. During when system is comming up I used to see after following error after when systems shows :
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I have consulted so many sun's plublication to cope with this problems, but could not over come. Therefor, please advise me how could I handle this problems?
Sarad

I've come across the same error messages in the same
sequence and have been stumped about how to resolve
the problem. I'm hoping that someone will read and
have an answer to these error messages.
chris
Hi All,
During when I tried to install Solaris 8 on my machine
I repetadely used to encountered following problem
listed below.I have also checked my motherboard's
chipset with Sun's Hardware Compatiability List, it
is there.
My Machine: Intel PIII
Motherboard: Intel 820
Processor Speed : 600Mhz
Ram 128Mb
Operating system to be installed : Solaris 8
The problems:
1. During the boot time I used to see:
SUN-OS Intel Plateform edition Primary Boot system VCN
2.0
Warning: ACPI table not in reclaim memory.
2. When This window disappear I will have this
window:
SUN-OS secondary Boot Version 3.0
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting system
3. During when system is comming up I used to see
after following error after when systems shows :
Warning: Can not merge HWconf devinfo Node Fdc@1,3f0
I have consulted so many sun's plublication to cope
with this problems, but could not over come. Therefor,
please advise me how could I handle this problems?
Sarad

Strange problems after installing Solaris 10 u6 on 64-bit PC

Hi all,
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I have installed Solaris normally, following most of the default options and choosing the "Entire Group" software packages installation. However, after the first login I've seen that:
1. No user creation process was offered to me and I had to login as root (I find it pretty strange)
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Quand Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 Gb of DDR2 SDRAM
Motherboard: MSI MS-7529 (Intel G31 chipset)
Monitor: AOC LM725
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
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DVD drives: 2 LG DVD drives (SATA)
Network card: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
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How to Install Solaris 10 on Sun Server

Dear All,
Can any one help me to Install Solaris 10 on Sun Server.
Or if you guys can suggest me which document i can refer for Solaris 10 installation.
Thnaks in advance to all.
Rgds,
Shrinet

You can go to doc.sun.com for all Solaris documentation. This should be the link you need, which is for the latest version of Solaris 10 (10/09).
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1236.11?l=en
If you need an older version, you can find them all here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10?l=en&a=view
-- Alan

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I am using VirtualBox-1.6.0 as my VM on an AMD ATHLON 1800+ with 1GB RAM running Fedora 9 (uname -r = 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686). My first attempt to install Solaris was with Solaris10 11/06, while the second attempt was with Solaris10 05/08.
Solaris10 11/06: 1. Default screen resolution created a window too long with the bottom off screen.
Is there a recommended resolution when the host screen resolution is 1440x900?
2. Guest Additions failed to install properly
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2. Install hangs when installing as a non-networked system when system is at 100% complete and about to reboot. I manually powered off the VM
unmounted the DVD image and then restarted the VM. When it rebooted, it complained that there wasn't a system on the hard drive.
In both installs, I went with the default config of the VM (512MB RAM, 8MB Video RAM, creating a dynamic virtual disk starting at 20GB limit), and the install media were iso's, 11/06 5 CD iso files and 05/08 1 DVD iso file.
TIA
Scott
Edited by: Bad2theBone on May 30, 2008 10:37 AM

Just redid the install of Solaris10 11/06 and this time I was able to change the size of the window so that it is within my desktop. I am running 32 bit apps as my AMD processor is only 32 bit, also I originally went with the CDE desktop and later switched to JDE. I was also able to install the Guest Additions for Solaris this time without any errors using pkgadd from the cli. I haven't retried the 05/08 version yet, but will post when I do. One thing in common with 11/06 and OpenSolaris.200805 is that the audio on my system does not work on either VM VBox 1.6.0. It reports that it cannot find any compatible device. It also complains about the UART device, although I don't have Serial Ports enabled. Also does anyone know how to tell VBoxSvr what host name to use with each VM?
Fri. 27 June 2008
I was able to install Solaris10u5 (05/2008) on VMware Server using 684MB of RAM and 20GB HDD. I did not have the tools addition for Solaris, I'm not even sure if there is such an animal, so I had to "Scroll the desktop" to maneuver around. I then tried it again on VirtualBox 1.6.2, got through the initial install setting RAM to 684MB, default Video no Serial ports or USB, although parts were painfully slow. I was not able to do the first reboot, it just sat there saying that it was doing system initialization and the indicator just kept on going back and forth. After about 20 min. I shutoff the VM giving up. Also I still can't get sound to work on either the older Solaris10 or OpenSolaris. In OpenSolaris the DDU indicates that 2 drivers are missing;
Audio; Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller
Other; ACPI AC Device
Anyone know if and when VBox or OpenSolaris will have these drivers?
Edited by: Bad2theBone on Jun 27, 2008 8:45 PM

Problem installing solaris 10 10/08 (x86) in multi-boot configuration

I'm trying to build a an x86_64 that can boot solaris10, Centos 5.3 and Ubuntu 8.10. (below is the linux fdisk data)
I have successfully installed the Ubuntu (partition 3& 6) and Centos ( parititions 2 &5 ).
Every time I've tried to install solaris, I get "initial fdisk information on disk c0d0 was invalid" and
it wants to reformat the disk with 100% solaris. I've tried
- setting /dev/sda1 as type BE with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type BF with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type 0 ( empty) with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type 0c ( FAT32) and formatting the the partition as FAT32.
I get the same response from solaris each time. I'm new to solaris ( my last sunos exposure was 4.1.1),
and can't figure out what the problem is and don't want to rebuild the whole system.
Any suggestions?
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13047 104799996 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 13048 26094 104799996 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 26095 39141 104799996 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 39142 121601 662359950 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 39142 41230 16779861 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 41231 43319 16779861 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 43320 56366 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda8 56367 69413 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda9 69414 82460 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda10 82461 95507 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda11 95508 108554 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda12 108555 121601 104799996 83 Linux

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Installing boot information
cannot mount '/a/rpool': directory is not empty
bootadm: mount of ZFS pool rpool failed
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# zfs get canmount
NAME                PROPERTY VALUE     SOURCE
rpool               canmount noauto    local
rpool/ROOT          canmount on        default
rpool/ROOT/zfsroot canmount noauto    local
rpool/dump          canmount -         -
rpool/swap          canmount -         -Should I be setting canmount=on for just 'rpool' then ?

Problem on installing Solaris 10 on Cisco UCS-C24-M3S2 rack server.

I've got issue on installing Solaris 10 on Cisco UCS-C24-M3S2 rack server. Solaris 10 doesn't recognize UCSC-RAID-ROM55.

Hi dipaktimsina,
From the documentation below it looks like Solaris doesn't have support for the embedded raid controller with the ROM55 chip.
http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html
let me know if you have any questions and don't forget to rate any useful answers.

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