Solaris installation and customization

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10

Prerequisites

Base system

1. Power Off/On, Stop-A (on an original Sun keyboard) gets you into Open Firmware console mode (ok prompt)
2. Insert installation media,

   boot cdrom
   # or:
   boot dvdrom
   

   and answer the questions.

Additional Software

Basic customizations

1. In /etc/inetd.conf disable all unnecessary services. If the machine should offer boot services, bootps and tftp must be enabled.

2.  
   chmod o-x /usr/bin/ypcat 
   

3. IP name and name resolution
4. Name resolution:
   In /etc/inet/resolv.conf:

   nameserver 192.168.1.1
   domain localdomain
   

   and in /etc/defaultrouter:

   192.168.1.1
   

   and in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

   hosts:      files dns
   

   to define search path for host name resolution.
   Restart interface with

   svcadm restart network/physical
   

Additional local software

mount rs6kf:/swdepotfs/ /mnt
cd /opt/sfw
/mnt/SOLARIS/SPARC/10/installopt.sh

Installing SunStudio.

What's next ?

9

Prerequisites

Base system

1. Power Off/On, Stop-A (on an original Sun keyboard) gets you into Open Firmware console mode (ok prompt)
2. Insert Installation CD

   boot cdrom
   

   and answer the questions. On a 9GB disk I used 6GB for root, 512MB swap and 1GB /export/home. One may install just about everything. This will take about 2GB disk space and about an hour with several CD swaps.
3. Insert the Software Companion CD and run the installer script, either from CDE or command line:

   cd /cdrom/cdrom0
   ./installer
   

   Again one may install just everything, which will take an additional 1GB of disk space.

Basic customizations

1. Network connectivity:
   Some configuration already took place during installation. In addition, in /etc/resolv.conf define domain and nameserver:

   domain localdomain
   nameserver 192.168.1.1
   

   Define name resolution order in /etc/nsswitch.conf (copy from /etc/nsswitch.files if it does not yet exist):

   hosts:      files dns
   

   Define gateway to the outside world in /etc/defaultrouter:

   192.168.1.1
   

   On the fly commands (example):

   ifconfig -a
   ifconfig hme0 192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
   route add default 192.168.1.1 1
   

Additional Software

Additional local software

mount rs6kf:/swdepotfs/ /mnt
cd /opt/sfw
/mnt/SOLARIS/SPARC/9/installopt.sh

Installing SunStudio.

What's next ?

8

1. Power Off/On, Stop-A (on an original Sun keyboard) gets you into Open Firmware console mode (ok prompt)
2. Insert Installation CD

   boot cdrom
   

   and answer the questions. I found it useful to setup a networked system at this early stage because Solaris 8 makes it rather cumbersome to do that later. It clearly lacks an AIX-like smitty ;-)
   Furthermore I found it useful to choose "Custom Install" because it allows to partition the disk manually.
   Note: Solaris may refuse to install on erased disks w/o label ("corrupt label", "wrong magic number") The installation will abort in a console window which allows to correct for that. Enter

   format -e
   

   and select a disk. It is sufficient to just label it, i.e. no real formatting is needed. The latter might take nearly an hour.
   Quit and restart the installation.
3. Insert Companion CD and install stuff from there (about 900MB going into system partition):

   ./installer
   

4. Network configuration:
   files:

   /etc/hosts
   /etc/hostname.hme0
   /etc/nodename
   /etc/defaultrouter # 192.168.1.1
   /etc/resolv.conf
   /etc/nsswitch.conf 
   /etc/netmasks
   /etc/net/ticlts/hosts
   /etc/net/ticots/hosts
   /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
   /etc/inet/ipnodes
   

   commands (example for a specific address):

   ifconfig hme0 192.168.1.52 netmask 255.255.255.0 plumb up
   

5. If erroneously the SSP package has been installed, get rid of it by

   pkginfo | grep ssp
   pkgrm -n ...
   pkgrm    ...
   

7

Prerequisites

1. Power Off/On, Stop-A (on an original Sun keyboard) gets you into Open Firmware console mode (ok prompt)
2. Insert Installation CD

   boot cdrom
   

   and answer the questions, it's straightforward. I found it useful to setup a networked system at this early stage because Solaris 7 makes it rather cumbersome to do that later. It clearly lacks an AIX-like smitty ;-)
   Note: Solaris may refuse to install on erased disks w/o label ("corrupt label", "wrong magic number") The installation will abort in a console window which allows to correct for that. Enter

   format -e
   

   and select a disk. It is sufficient to just label it, i.e. no real formatting is needed. The latter might take nearly an hour.
   Quit and restart the installation.
   One may use "auto-layout" of the system disk as a first guess, and subsequently modify the partitions.

   Example for a 4GB disk:

   Partition	Size/MB	Usage
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0	256	/
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6	512	/usr
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3	512	/var
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7	256	/export/home (assuming remote user fs)
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s5	1536	/opt
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1	512	/usr/openwin
   swap	512+x	/tmp

3. Insert Documentation CD and run its Installer (+200MB in /opt)
4. Insert Netscape CD and run its Installer (+50MB in /opt)
5. If available/applicable:
   Insert Workshop (compiler) CD and run its installer script (+600MB in /opt)
6. Network configuration:
   influential files:

   /etc/hosts
   /etc/hostname.hme0
   /etc/nodename
   /etc/defaultrouter # 192.168.1.1
   /etc/resolv.conf
   /etc/nsswitch.conf 
   /etc/netmasks
   /etc/net/ticlts/hosts
   /etc/net/ticots/hosts
   /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
   /etc/inet/ipnodes
   

   commands (depend on NIC hardware, example for a specific address):

   ifconfig hme0 192.168.1.52 netmask 255.255.255.0 plumb up
   # or:
   ifconfig  le0 192.168.1.52 netmask 255.255.255.0 plumb up
   

7. To allow remote admin access it may be convenient to enable remote root login

2.6/2.5

Prerequisites

1. Power Off/On, Stop-A (on an original Sun keyboard) gets you into Open Firmware console mode (ok prompt)
2. Insert Installation CD

   boot cdrom
   

   and answer the questions, it's straightforward. I found it useful to setup a networked system at this early stage because Solaris makes it rather cumbersome to do that later. It clearly lacks an AIX-like smitty ;-)
   Note: Solaris may refuse to install on erased disks w/o label ("corrupt label", "wrong magic number") The installation will abort in a console window which allows to correct for that. Enter

   format -e
   

   and select a disk. It is sufficient to just label it, i.e. no real formatting is needed. The latter might take nearly an hour.
   Quit and restart the installation.
   One may use "auto-layout" of the system disk as a first guess, and subsequently modify the partitions.

   Example for a 4GB disk:

   Partition	Size/MB	Usage
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0	256	/
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6	512	/usr
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3	512	/var
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7	256	/export/home (assuming remote user fs)
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s5	1536	/opt
   /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1	512	/usr/openwin
   swap	512+x	/tmp

3. if one happens to have the Software Supplement CD, follow the README to install (+140MB in /opt)
4. Insert Documentation CD and use the admintool to install (+200MB in /opt)
   (asks a gazillion times for confirmation, so be patient).
5. Insert Netscape 3.03 CD and use the admintool to install (+5MB in /opt)
6. If available/applicable:
   Insert Workshop (compiler) CD and run its installer script (+600MB in /opt)
7. Network configuration:
   influential files:

   /etc/hosts
   /etc/hostname.hme0
   /etc/nodename
   /etc/defaultrouter # 192.168.1.1
   /etc/resolv.conf
   /etc/nsswitch.conf 
   /etc/netmasks
   /etc/net/ticlts/hosts
   /etc/net/ticots/hosts
   /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
   /etc/inet/ipnodes
   

   commands (depend on NIC hardware, example for a specific address):

   ifconfig hme0 192.168.1.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 plumb up
   # or:
   ifconfig  le0 192.168.1.59 netmask 255.255.255.0 plumb up
   

8. To allow remote admin access it may be convenient to enable remote root login