Which platform to install Solaris 8 on?

Hi all!
What would be the best Intel hardware choice for installing Solaris on for a brand new company ... no legacy hardware or software.
Sparc solutions seem to pricey to consider at this time, so we're sticking to Intel.
Dell has some nice rack mountable servers that we're considering... Anyone know of problems with installing solaris on these?
Thanks!
- Nayan Hajratwala
[email protected]

Make sure that the hardware is compatible with Solaris 8... Check the compatibility list before you purchase any hardware for your company... If you want SPARC's you could probably use the generics like Tatung or the likes which are cheaper that SUN's boxes... OF course the best thing to look for is the support... Sun has been great with their support.

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CAN I INSTALL SOLARIS 10 INTEL PLATFORM ON MY PC

Can anybody guide me whether i can install solaris 10 intel platform on my pc having following configuration
1. Processor = AMD SEMPRON 2500+ 64-BIT.
2. MainBoard = ASUS K8V-MX.
3. RAM-= 512 MB DDR PC3200
4. Display = Onboard VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP.
5. LAN = Onboard VIA RHINE II Fast Ethernet Adapter.
6. Monitor = 17" LG CRT, Model = Studioworks 700S
7. Sony DVD- ROM.
8. Samsung DVD-RW.
9. HDD = 40 GB Samsung 7200 RPM.
If anybody knows let me know at my e-mail [email protected]

I don't think you will have many problems in this platform, but I'm not 100% sure.
What I recommend you is to get the VMWare and try there. VMWare is a software where you can create a virtual machine running under windows. In this virtual machine you could install solaris 10 (and any other OS you want to test in your computer). I have my Solaris 10 running under VMWare with excellent results (Laptop with Intel Celeron processor)... where I have VMWare installed in Windows!

Installing Solaris 9 on an x86 platform with win98 and win2K

Hi,
There is a Pentium P4 (2.4 GHz) machine with a 40 GB hard disk...
This has 1 primary partition and the remaining is the extended dos partition. In effect there are the following logical drives - C, D, E and F. These are FAT32 partitions and have WIN98 and WIN2K (server) installed on them.
There is a free space of abt 8 GB remaining on which i am trying to install Solaris 9 (via CD). But am just not able to do so.
During the process, i get to the step saying that my disk is to be partitioned and that i could either choose the DEFAULT LAYOUT or manually partition the disk with the fdisk.
Default layout indicates that there would be 1 x86 partition (primary, boot) and the remaining would be a solaris partition - implying that all my other data would get formatted out!!!
When i try to use the fdisk to manually partition the disk, the free space mntd above does not show up!!!
But this is seen when i use the DOS fdisk - i.e. i could create a logical drive on the extended dos partition...
Can some one please help me install the Solaris in the free space i have ?? Thanks.

Hello!
There is one simple method also..
Instead of Installation disk of Solaris, insert the Software 1/2 Disk, and try to follow the actuall Suninstall method of installing Solaris. Here you will get the option that how to utilize the free space.
I myself have installed more 5 OS on a single Hard disk :) this way. Try this method

I need a sql statment that return the platform on which oracle is installed

hi all
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Help Installing Solaris 10 on Sony vaio laptop which shipped with Vista

Hello All,
I am very new to solaris. As part of first step of learning i am trying to install solaris on my laptop, as it already downgraded from Vista to XP. Now my laptop is loaded with XP i am planning to install solaris as a dual boot.
Can anybody guide me or suggest me how to walk through the installation process.
I have encountered an issue while trying to install installing ( it is unable to detect the harddisk of my laptop, i am unable to find out the root cause i have two options in mind, 1) there is no unpartitioned space left for solaris to install & the 2) is SATA disabling.
Help is highly appretiated.
Thanks,
Naveen.

From my (admittedly limited) experience:
1) It's not a matter of merely no unpartitioned space; the installer would still see the drive.
2) SATA is not a showstopper. I installed on a 500 GB SATA drive on an HP XW4400 workstation that has an Intel 82801G SATA controller. However, when I first tried to install, I got to the list of target drives and the list was blank as if I had no drives. I went into the bios setting of the workstation and changed 'SATA emulation' from "AHCI" to "IDE" and then Solaris installed just fine.

Can not install solaris 10 on dell Desktop

Hi All,
This is my first post. I am new to sun solaris. I am trying to install Solaris 10 (using DVD). while installation it came up with folllwing error.
NO Disk found.
check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up.on the same disk, windows VISTA installed and there 3 windows partition exists. I am just wondering if sun will required blank drive. or disk is not supprted.
below is the link to see dell desktop tech spec.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_e520?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh
Please advise...
Regards,
Hitesh

Thanks Alan,
I run this tool and here is the result. i am going try to setup in legacy mode to see if that works. Please advise is there any other way.
OR,
can you suggest any desktop machine which is fully supported. I checked the HCL list but coudnlt decide anythings. here is onf the site from where i can buy the PC. www.tigerdirect.ca.
please advise.....
Thank you!
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Number of devices without Solaris drivers: 1
     Solaris Driver 32-bit
     Solaris Driver 64-bit
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1
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     No Solaris Driver
     Storage
     Intel Corporation
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2
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     [W] Solaris Bundled Driver: audiohd
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3
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     Solaris Bundled Driver: e1000g
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4
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     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
5
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
6
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
7
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
8
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: uhci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
9
     Solaris Bundled Driver: ehci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: ehci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
10
     Solaris Bundled Driver: ehci
     Solaris Bundled Driver: ehci
     USB
     Intel Corporation
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11
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     Sub DID
     Revision ID
1
     8086      2822      00010400      1028      01dd      02
2
     8086      284b      00040300      1028      01dd      02
3
     8086      104c      00020000      1028      01dd      02
4
     8086      2830      000c0300      1028      01dd      02
5
     8086      2831      000c0300      1028      01dd      02
6
     8086      2832      000c0300      1028      01dd      02
7
     8086      2834      000c0300      1028      01dd      02
8
     8086      2835      000c0300      1028      01dd      02
9
     8086      2836      000c0320      1028      01dd      02
10
     8086      283a      000c0320      1028      01dd      02
11
     8086      29a2      00030000      1028      01dd      02

Cannot start Xserver after installing Solaris 10 08/07 for Sparc

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getting the following message on booting not sure if related.
SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L, TYPE: Defect, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Minor
EVENT-TIME: Thu Nov 8 10:07:20 CET 2007
PLATFORM: SUNW,Netra-T2000, CSN: -, HOSTNAME:
SOURCE: eft, REV: 1.16
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AUTO-RESPONSE: Error reports from the component will be logged for examination b
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IMPACT: Automated diagnosis and response for these events will not occur.
REC-ACTION: Run pkgchk -n SUNWfmd to ensure that fault management software is in
stalled properly. Contact Sun for support.
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Hendy

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2-did you try /usr/X11/bin/xorgcfg ?
3-did you try kdmconfig ?

How to install solaris when having no physical access to the machine

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I administer a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with Windows Server 2003. The machine is in a rack located in a datacenter which I do not have any physical access to.
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I have full access to several machines in the office where I work and they have varied OSes (windows, mac, solaris). It seems to me that those machines are in a different subnet than the server (subnet masks are not the same). Also their Ip addresses are given dinamically (DHCP) whist the server's address is fixed (static). Currently, I can use any of these machines to open a remote desktop session to the Dell server.
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Thank you

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Error while installing Solaris 10 using Solaris CD

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Step by Step Guide to Install Solaris 10 11/06 With Windows XP on x86 PC

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
Restarted PC after Win XP installation & installed Partition Magic 8 . In PM8 I formatted Solaris partition as FAT 32 (at Solaris installation it changed to Solaris format) & Linux as Linux EXT 3 . Rebooted the PC. I Started Solaris 10 11/06 installation from the DVD I burned from Sun downloads.
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
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(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 "
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(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)
(35) Displayed " Lay Out File Systems " screen, c1d0 was highlighted. > NEXT
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(37) When installation finishes hit " Reboot " & when PC was restarting I ejected DVD manually
(38) After re-start it displayed 3 options: 1st: Solaris 10 , 2nd: Solaris failsafe , 3rd: Windows , ENTER on Solaris 10
(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
When it was fully up, the Internet was working right away. Restarted again to check Windows. Selected " Windows " at reboot screen & Windows was working just fine.
It took me few allnighters to figure these out, I hope these will helpful to Solaris newbies like me. Still I can't figure out ... How to install any software (obviously designed for Solaris 10 (x86) ) onto Solaris, but thats a different issue.
- 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.
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(== 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
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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)
prepare a clean partition, or backup files on a HD. run the instalation, once you will reach the point when it will ask you how to install (Normal or Custom) choose custom, then it will go to several questions concerning where on a HD to install, thats where you can choose partitions and so on.
Just as a reminder: you dont need alot of space for Solaris to work properly, plus there not so much software which requires big amount of HD. So for OS and nice package for development you will probably need tops 10Gb.

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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.
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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

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

Installing solaris from the hard disk

i am new to solaris. i just wanna know is there a way of installing solaris from the hard drive

If you are new to Solaris I would advise you to stick to CD installations. Atleast in the beginning.
Having advised that, it is known that installing from cd can be a bit tricky is getting the install going.
Don't be supprised if your first attempt fails with disk-read errors. Try again.
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Solaris has many ways in which you can install the os, and from hardisk over the network to the machine to be installed is one of these possibities.
If you where thinking about doing the install from one partition to an other partition of the harddisk, that I am afraid I have to dissapoint you.
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