I recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a. Namely for a supported configuration the zone had to be located on the local ssd drive of the exalogic compute node. Logging into esxis console and ssh as an active directory user. Recovering passwords in solaris 11 oracle paulies world in. I regularly do a full install of a solaris development release onto my laptop. Cdrom on solaris is usually linked to device devsr0. So you have to log on console to be able to access the ugen nodes. To manually configure the network by using the dladm and ipadm commands, the defaultfixed ncp must be active online after the installation or upgrade. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Hi, im trying to get oracle solaris on a bootable usb. Many of the oracle solaris administrators would like to try the openstack stuffs but deployment is not so easy on it. Downloading the image file installing and configuring. The most recent releases of the companion dvd for solaris 10 update 11 can now only be obtained from the unix packages website. I came across this in a post by steve scargall in the oracle forums, this post is a rehash of his solution.
Use the netadm command to verify which ncp is currently active on your system. That log shows that it is booting solaris 10 off the existing hard disk, not the solaris 11 boot media. After the oracle solaris operating system recognizes the local usb ethernet device, the ip interface for the usb ethernet device needs to be configured. My usb printer and thumb drives work okay with the solaris host by not with my client, win7. How to install solaris 11 on sparc enterprise t5240 from. This article describes some of the new features for basic oracle solaris 11. Solaris and may other unix like operating system use ufs unix file system file system. Solaris 11 also runs just fine on both platforms, with the same limitation. This is when the install is on the solaris machine. Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. Jun 20, 2012 solaris 11 also runs just fine on both platforms, with the same limitation.
You can look for solaris 11 chat sheet here which will give you solaris 11 general administration. Linux mount solaris x86 unix ufs partitions nixcraft. Lius blog as an inspiration, but the following is what i have found worked well to boot an install image located on a usb disk. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Oracle has added loads of new features to the networking stack of solaris 11. You can use regular mount command to mount partition. I have not tried solaris 10 or 11 on the ichipset mac minis, only because i dont have one, but im thinking about buying one. Configuring internal usb ethernet device on host os oracle.
Let this sink in solaris 12s death is a good thing and this is why. May 06, 2009 last week yet another update of solaris 10 os was released. I want to download to os file, put it on a cd and install the os from the cd. If running solaris 8, be sure to install the latest version of patch 109897 other drivers acpi driver intel only unfortunately, the only thing this acpi driver lets you do, is power off your x86 system using software. I personally did similar cloning myself, but its handy that now zfs cloning is supported in the zoneadm command itself. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Aug 20, 2016 well unlike the solaris virtual box file which was designed for virtual box, i am not having the same luck getting either the live iso or the live usb download files to work. Refer to the oracle solaris advanced installation guide for more information about installing the oracle solaris 11 os over the network. Hi, today my solaris 11 goes crazy, its create so many core so i decide to install solaris 11 with centos 6 as second boot first i install centos 6 and next i install solaris 11, install solaris goes right without touching centos partitions but once solaris 11 boot up, there is no any info about centos in solaris 11 nf. Configuring internal usb ethernet device on host os. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek.
Until recently running solaris zones using the older exalogic release solaris 11 express was quite possible but there was a significant limitation. In order to use the usb stick as a boot media, you will need to have the openboot version higher than 4. In an internet browser, go to the unified archives download page. Mounting ntfs on solaris 11 october 3, 2014 leave a comment there are many blog entries and forum posts out there that talk about how to mount an ntfs partition or external drive on solaris, but pretty much all of them are either outdated or have broken links. Removing phantom vmk nics from cisco v dvs switches.
The messages file on the host always returns the entry below after connecting the usb device, whether a printer, storage, or usb wifi adapter. How do i mount solaris 10 opensolaris x86 parition under linux to access file system. Installing solaris from a usb disk oracle the good, the. Security, network, and provisioning advances, in addition to significant new performance features, make an already great release even better. Read the license agreement and click the accept button. Well be discussing the new features in solaris 11 network stack and also compare it with solaris 10 where ever applicable. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. The idea is to get the solaris sparc to use a disk that is partitioned to be usable by windows. Last week yet another update of solaris 10 os was released. Thats right, solaris 11 is here to stay for a while. You can determine the name of the device by entering the following command. Hi, i have built a solaris 11 repository server and have built a repository using the sru download files under doc id 2045311. Press the function key listed onscreen to reach the boot menu. Since openstack is new to solaris administrators, oracle provides the prebuilt templates to install oracle solaris 11.
Installing solaris 11 on intel x8664 platform musings. It lets you access the system cpu console keyboard and video buffer remotely. Jul 11, 20 demonstration of handsfree installation of solaris x64 from usb thumb drive to a virtualbox vm. Well unlike the solaris virtual box file which was designed for virtual box, i am not having the same luck getting either the live iso or the live usb download files to work. If you are manually configuring your network, keep the following key points in mind.
If you can deal with the fact that its a big javabased app running in your browser, then i recommend you learn about the webbased ilom interface. The cited answer and its link if for sun studio 12. Zfs support when cloning a solaris zone quite a useful tool for someone who always copied the files of solaris zones. The solaris web site makes it sound as easy as linux ubuntu but the files do nothing after being downloaded. May 18, 2012 i recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a new auto install server. Solaris 11 srus and ips repository oracle community. Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. The keepalive packet ensures that a connection stays in an active and established state. There are download links for oracle solaris 10 sparc and x86 svr4 installers. Booting into single user mode from dvd has not changed much in solaris 11 x86x64. Well, that is another story for another day, but it is not because the solaris upgrade software. Oracle provides a wget script for downloading their patches, however oracles otn doesnt allow you to login via wgetcurl, which means that oracle provided scripts are of no use. Display information about the datalinks on a system as follows.
That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. Demonstration of handsfree installation of solaris x64 from usb thumb drive to a virtualbox vm. Oracle solaris 11 is supported on hundreds of sparc andx86 platforms, including oracles exadata, exalogic and sparcsupercluster. For example, the command can return the string devdskc0t6d0s2. Use the following procedure to download a single image file that provides both the oracle solaris os and openstack. Jan 26, 2017 let this sink in solaris 12s death is a good thing and this is why. Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. Jan 05, 2016 this video show you how to install oracle solaris 11. Of these, 95 are rebuilt, many including newer versions of the packages from update 10. Sep 06, 2008 i decided i no longer see the sense of burning a dvd to do this. New packaging system called image packaging system ips. The internal ethernet device typically appears as usbecm0.
Then, you should see a menu for continuing to install the oracle solaris 11 os. All packages have been tested on update 11 machines. One of the best things i like about solaris 11 over solaris 10 is the huge change in the network stack in solaris 11. I cant seem to get cpan installs working on a solaris machine. Oracle solaris built in virtualization provides a highly efficient and scalable solution that sits at the core of the platform. This windows curse is unavoidable, but sun ships the right tools to deal with it. Make sure youve told the system to boot off the cdrom, not the disk, normally by entering boot cdrom at the ok prompt. I would like to install solaris or freebsd on my pc. There are a total of 110 packages built on update 11 sparc and x86 systems. Install oracle solaris 11 over a network oracle sparc. However, the name for the internal ethernet device might be different based on the distribution of the oracle solaris operating system. Standard edition, standard edition one, and enterprise edition.
Oracle finally wised up about operating system names, and made the decision to follow a version strategy that may other software companies have figured out, and are keeping the major number at 11. Managing network configuration when in manual mode. Kernel zones are not supported by oracle vm virtualbox. Proceed with the oracle solaris 11 os installation. You may also be interested in the solaris ready usb faq. This vm template is for use in oracle vm virtualbox, a crossplatform tool that runs on windows, linux, mac os x, and oracle solaris.
It doesnt include applications that will run on oracle solaris 11 that were designed and build. Weve been designing the os for for more than two decades, always ensuring that weve engineered in features to meet the latest. Oracle solaris provides a flexible, cost efficient, cloudready solution perfect for your data center. Usb drive on solaris this guide walks you through mounting a usb drive on a solaris sparc system. Oracle solaris free and open source software foss subject. Oracle solaris consolidation virtualization paas java cloud enterprise mobility. Recovering passwords in solaris 11 oracle paulies world. About once a year, ill find a way to lock myself out of a solaris system. The latter provides a nocost perpetual license for development purposes under the terms of the otn license. I have prepared the usbmedia using a virtual box installation of solaris 11. In latest oracle solaris 11 or oracle solaris 10 update 2 and later releases, when you no longer bind ugen driver manually, the ugen permissions are given to console login user.
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