How to Install Solaris 10

∂ : Action to Take : Select “Solaris” and hit enter.

If your machine actually does find the bootable CDROM that you inserted then you had better see something like so :

What you are looking at is something lovingly referred to as “GRUB“. Like everything in the computer world it is an acronym for something else; specifically the GRand Unified Bootloader. Which sounds all very important and it really is something amazing in terms of what it does to boot an operating system but it will not change our perspective on quantum physics the way a grand unified theory of everything would. Nope, it is just the bootloader in much the same way that a Swiss Army Knife is just a knife that everyone uses because its so damned perfect at what it does.

Please feel free to read all about GRUB and the boot process at the following sites :

Some people may wonder why the first thing you see from Solaris 10 is so ugly. Most people like to stuff in a fancy background splash graphic image so it looks cool. The cute image does nothing for functionality and if you know anything about Solaris then you know that it runs on really massive computers. No one has fancy graphics on big computers and often times you have none at all. So sticking a background splash image may sound like a nice idea but it really annoys those of us that have to setup 8-way multi-core AMD Opteron servers via nothing but a serial console. Far more ironic is that the first three letters on the screen are “GNU” and that is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix” even though we are booting Solaris which is UNIX™. That's my version of funny, sort of. Just click next now.

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