Notes for installing Solaris 10

These notes won’t be of too much use to anyone but me, I’m putting them here so that I can refer to them later on when I need to… Install a minimal system. Once installed, find where the CDROM is by iostat -En in the case of the VM I was using, it was on c0t0d0 mount the CDROM (the Solaris 10 installation disc) mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt/cdrom/ cd /mnt/cdrom/Solaris_10/Product/ If the cdrom has been mounded by the automounter (vold) the packages will be located at /cdrom/sol_10_1009_x86/Solaris_10/Product/ install vold, ssh, wget, bash, man pages, java: vold (automounts the cdrom) pkgadd -d . SUNWvolr SUNWvolu ssh: pkgadd -d . SUNWsshcu SUNWsshdr SUNWsshdu SUNWsshr SUNWsshu wget: pkgadd -d . SUNWwgetr SUNWwgetu man pages pkgadd -d . SUNWman SUNWdoc java pkgadd -d . SUNWj5rt SUNWj5dev SUNWj5cfg SUNWj5man SUNWj5dmo generate ssh host keys: /lib/svc/method/sshd -c enable and start sshd: svcadm enable ssh && svcadm restart ssh unmount the cdrom, and enable vold svcadm restart volfs I think this may only be needed in the VM that I’m using as the virtual CDROM is actually disconnected from the machine when I eject it. Mirror the root disk with zfs mirroring Use format to check the installed disks Format the second disk (c1t0d0s0) properly: sudo format (choose fdisk) (create 100% Standard Solaris Partition over the full Disk) Install the disk toc/partition map off the boot disk sudo -s prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 (NOTE: it’s slice 2 (s2)! on BOTH Disks) Attach the second disk to the ZFS Root Pool: sudo zpool attach -f rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d1s0 Install the GRUB boot loader to the second disk: installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0 If you’re running on SPARC, use the installboot command instead installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0