how to install solaris
 

hi!

I would like to install Solaris 9 on my computer.

There are 2 operating systems on my HD: Windows, Linux Red Hat 9.0

I have several questions:

Which kind of files system is used for SOLARIS?, for example, Windows XP --> ntfs.

How many partitions do I need to install Solaris?, actually I have 3 partitions on my HD.

Some easy guide of installation , I have found several but all of them are really hard for starters as I.

Thanks for all

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Firs of all you require a solaris version for Intel based platform. see below link for more details.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/x86/index.xml



download intel version from:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/...9download.html

The installation procedure for solaris is in the documentation link under sun solaris web site. If you are going to install solaris on a intel based system, the support and documentation are limited you may still follow the documentation provided for Solaris Sparc. at the following link :

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3799

The installation procedure for solaris is quiet straight forward create the following partition for solaris in one of the 3 partition allocated for solaris : its just like creating partition on a linux OS.


You are required to follow certain guidelines in order to install Solaris on a intel platform so read up on the pre-requirments before you start with the installation particularly on the hardware requirements and HCL docs.

This documentation is not limited to SPARC hardware, but is covering x86 platforms too.

The last version of this documentation (for Solaris 9, 9/04) is http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5768/6ml70g5h3#hic

Solaris 10 installation documentation is available too at:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/214.15

hi,
For installing x86Solaris, do the following:

1. Download the Software CD 1 and Software CD 2 ISOs. I donno for 10, but this is for 9. DO NOT DOWNLOAD the INSTALLER CD.
You can install from Software CD 1. Just that is is partly nCurses based and partly X Windows based (if it detected your VGA).

2. Ensure your Linux SWAP partition is in an extended partition. Why? Linux Swap uses 82 as filesystem #. Also same number for Solaris.
Installer will get confused. By putting mr. Swap on extended, Solaris won't see it.

3. Install Solaris. It needs one primary partition only. Forget the official Sun documentation for installation. Follow the doc at
Solaris X86. Remember, in one partition only 7 slices. (don't get confused about this. I have purposely put it like this for ur clarity. Solaris and FreeBSD call what we normally call a partition as a slice. Within this, you create /,/usr etc. which they call partitions).

any help, just post.

bye

Thick_guy_9, your advice applies either less or no more to Solaris 10, which fixes many of the issues you describe:
- You can (and need) to install S10 from CD #1
- Solaris partition id has changed from 0x82 to 0xbf, no more clash exists
- http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817...gbagb1b?a=view is accurately explaining how to install, other sites may still help too.
- Just to clarify:
- Solaris is calling partitions or fdisk partitions the thing everyone in the PC world is simply calling a partition (four primaries: p1, p2, p3, p4 + extended: p0:c, p0:d, ... )
- Slices are subdivisions of the solaris fdisk partitions (s0, s1 ... s7), they are sometimes called partitions too in the documentation, but the meaning is always explained.
When Solaris run on SPARC hardware, there is no fdisk underlying partition and the slices span the whole disk.
On x86/x64, the Solaris fdisk partition can have up to 16 slices.
Linux is making no distinction between Solaris slices and extended partitions logical volumes, it is just giving them consecutive numbers as soon as it discovers them at boot (hda5, hda6, hda7, ...).
This can prove very annoying should a previously primary partition is promoted to Solaris while an extended partition is already existing on a numerically superior partition, as all the linux numbering is shifted and the fstab is broken.
This problem doesn't exists with solaris where the partition naming is consistently pointing to the target devices.