A Step by Step Guide to Installing Solaris 10
by Dennis Clarke

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  This is a very simple step by step set of instructions that will take you from boot through to running a browser. Everything you need to get started is here complete with easy to follow picture based instructions. So please just dive in and if you feel something needs to be explained then just send feedback to dclarke@blastwave.org.

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Section 1 : Hardware Selection

• If This Is All New to You
• Looking at the Hardware
  
  • You Will Need a Computer
  • Lets take a look Inside
  • A Brief Look at BIOS and CMOS
  • Verify You Can Boot
• Is that Real or VMware?

Section 2 : Boot the Installation CDROM or DVD

• See GRUB Run. Run GRUB Run
• Just Select “Solaris Interactive”
• kdmconfig - setup graphics
• Eventually You Get Graphics

Section 3 : Basic Configuration Data

• Select Networked
• Just Say No to DHCP
• Enter the hostname
• Enter the Network Config
• Select TimeZone
• Set Date & Time
• Enter the root password
• Open or Closed Security Profile?
• Review and Continue

Section 4 : Finally You Are Welcome to Install

• At This Point You are “Welcome?”
• Eject : Yes & Reboot : Yes
• Select the installation media
• Select “Custom” Install
• Select Locale(s)
• Select “Give Me Everything”
• Select the Boot Disk
  • Partition the Boot Disk
  • Slice the Boot Disk
  • Review the Boot Disk
• Review Filesystem Allocation

Section 5 : After First Reboot

• CDROM 1 of 5
• CDROM 1 done! Reboot!
• NFS version 4 Domain Name Question
• X-Windows starts
• Feed More CDROMs

Section 6 : Reboot again ...

• Please click Reboot
• See GRUB Boot. Boot GRUB boot!
• sendmail error message. Ignore it.
• Do NOT login as root!
• Select “Command Line Login”
• Fix the backspace key
• Some Network Commands
• Read our first manual page
• Create a UNIX Group
• Create a UNIX user

Section 7 : Login to the Desktop

• Login as a regular user
• Select JDS
• Start Mozilla
• Edit resolv.conf with vi
• Make a symbolic link
• Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Browser should work now
• Get a support contract
• Click and Play!

    · A really large number of coffee beans died while working on these docs.
    · Horribly, the slaughter will continue until the docs are complete.
    · Dennis Clarke last updated this Thu May 3 00:02:59 EDT 2007