Open Solaris Operating System (installation OS, bootloader, installation packets, and x window)

INSTALLATION OPEN SOLARIS

• Before installation in the beginning, it helps us
  know in advance the minimum requirements for open solaris installation:

  Minumum requirement :

  Intel pentium II of CPU

  64 MB RAM (128 MB RAM recommended)

  1 GB HDD (2 GB HDD recommended)

  Supported CD ROM for installation

• Insert the CD of OpenSolaris 2008.11 into CD / DVD room. Select the top option to install OpenSolaris in a desktop mode and press "Enter" to speed up booting.

• In the keyboard layout selection, press "Enter" to select the default.

• On the choice of desktop language press "Enter" to select the default language.

• Wait a few minutes until the OpenSolaris desktop display appears as shown below.

• Click the Install OpenSolaris available on the desktop, so the new window appears. Click "Next".

• Determine the disk partition for install OpenSolaris, and then click "Next" and Set Time Zone, Date and Time. After that click "Next".

• After selecting the language option, for example english, and then click "Next".

• Specify username and password for a normal user, root password, and computer name.

• Final review before the install process. If there is something wrong, you can press Back to rearrange, if it is believed correct, click Install and wait a few minutes up to 100%.

• The installation has been completed and click Reboot to restart.

• Initial display when booting.

• Enter the username that was made at the beginning of the installation. Suppose it username: andry and enter the password of the user andry.

• OpenSolaris desktop after login.

BOOTLOADER (GRUB)

• · List active GRUB menu
• · To entry autoboot setting a 5-second timeout
• · The default setting for Solaris operating system load, entry number = 1
• · Then setting up again to load the default Solaris operating system, entry number = 0

INSTALLATION THE PACKETS

• · Download the packets
• · When we will do the installation software package with ekstension Gz or. Bzip2, then we can use the command gunzip or bunzip2 to uncompress the packages.

# bunzip2 CSKmemcached_1.3.1_i386.pkg.bz2

# gunzip gcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local.gz

• · after the two above packages we've uncompress, then for the installation do the following:

· # pkgadd –d gcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local Atau

· # pkgadd –d CSKmemcached_1.3.1_i386.pkg

X WINDOW

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