Installing Oracle Solaris 10

This chapter provides information about installing the Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS) on Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Installing Solaris 10 Using Local or Remote Media

• Installing Oracle Solaris 10 Using a PXE Network Environment

• Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks

For information describing how to configure the preinstalled Oracle Solaris 10 OS image, see the Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Installation Guide for setup instructions.

Installing Solaris 10 Using Local or Remote Media

The following procedure describes how to boot the Oracle Solaris Operating System installation from local or remote media. It assumes that you are booting the installation media from one of the following sources:

• Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (or subsequent release) DVD set (internal or external DVD)

• Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 (or subsequent release) ISO DVD image (network repository)

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  Note - If you are booting the installation media from a PXE environment, refer to Installing Oracle Solaris 10 Using a PXE Network Environment for instructions.

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Before You Begin

The following requirements should be met prior to starting the installation procedure in this section.

• All applicable installation prerequisites for installing an operating system should have been met. For further information about these prerequisites, see Chapter 9, Getting Started With Oracle Solaris Operating System Installations.

• An installation method (for example: console, boot media, and install target) should have been chosen and established prior to performing the installation. For information about these setup requirements, see Appendix A, Supported Installation Methods.

After completing this procedure, you should review and perform the required post installation tasks described later in this chapter. For more details, see Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks.

Install Oracle Solaris 10 Using Local or Remote Media

1. Ensure that the install media is available to boot.
   • For Distribution DVD. Insert the Oracle Solaris 10 DVD into the local or remote DVD drive.
   • For ISO image. Ensure that the ISO images are available and that the ILOM Remote Console application is aware of the first ISO image location.

   For additional information about how to set up the install media, see Appendix A, Supported Installation Methods.

2. Reset the power on the server.

   For example:

   • From the ILOM web interface, select the Remote Control --> Remote Power Control tab, then select Reset from the Select Action list box.
   • From the local server, press the Power button (approximately 1 second) on the front panel of the server to turn the server off, then press the Power button again to power on the server.
   • From the ILOM CLI on server SP, type: reset /SYS

   The BIOS screen appears.

   
   

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   Note - The next events occur very quickly; therefore, focused attention is needed for the following steps. Please watch carefully for these messages as they appear on the screen for a brief time. You might want to enlarge the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.

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3. In the BIOS screen, press F8 to specify a temporary boot device for the Solaris installation.

   The Please Select Boot Device menu appears.

   
   
4. In the Boot Device menu, select either the external or virtual DVD device as the first (temporary) boot device, then press Enter.

   In the sample Boot Device menu shown in Step 3, the virtual DVD device is specified as the first boot device.

   The device strings listed on the Boot Device menu are in the format of: device type, slot indicator, and product ID string.

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   Note - If you are performing the Solaris installation from a redirected DVD using the ILOM Remote Console application, select AMI Virtual CDROM, which is listed as an option in the Boot Device menu when you install from a redirected DVD.

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   The GRUB menu appears.

   
   
5. In the GRUB menu, select Solaris_10 os, then press Enter.

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   Note - In the GRUB menu, if you want to redirect the install output to a serial console, press “e” to edit the GRUB menu. To support a serial console, append ,console=ttya to the boot flags on the kernel line.

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   The system loads the Solaris disk image into memory. This process can take several minutes. When it completes, the Install Type menu appears.

   
   
6. In the Install Type menu, choose the type of interface that you want to use to perform the installation.
   • Graphical User Interface (default) – Type 1 then press Enter.
   • Text Installer From Desktop Session – Type 3 then press Enter.
   • Text Installer From Console Session – Type 4 then press Enter.

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     Note - The screens that are displayed on your system might vary depending on the type of interface you chose to configure in Step 6. The following sample screens appearing in this procedure are based on the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) option (option 1).

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   The system discovers and configures the devices and interfaces. If the system discovers a keyboard, the Configure Keyboard Layout menu appears.

   
   
7. In the Configure Keyboard Layout menu, select the appropriate keyboard layout, then press Enter.

   The system configures the keyboard layout selection and searches for configuration files.

   If you selected a GUI installation in the previous steps, the next two steps (Step 8 and Step 9) confirm that the GUI is functioning. If you did not select a GUI interface previously, skip to Step 10.

   
   
8. In the Discovering Network Configuration and Starting Solaris Interactive Installation screen, press Enter.

   A second screen appears to confirm that the GUI is functioning.

   
   
9. In the screen that is confirming the text shown is legible, press Enter.

   The Language Selection menu appears.

10. In the Language Selection menu, type the selected language ID number (0-9), then press Enter.

    After a few moments the Welcome screen appears.

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    Note - The sample screen shown below reflects the GUI installation program. If you are running a text-based installation interface, the text-based Welcome screen (not shown) will appear.

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11. In the Welcome screen, click Next to begin the installation.

    If you preconfigured all of the system information, the installation program does not prompt you to enter any configuration information. If you did not preconfigure all the system information, the installation program prompts you for this information on several configuration screens.

12. Continue the normal Solaris installation and, if necessary, refer to the Solaris documentation for additional details.

    After the installation completes, the system will automatically reboot (if you previously selected this option during the configuration procedure) and displays the Solaris login prompt.

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    Note - If you did not configure the system to automatically reboot when the installation completes, you must manually reboot the system.

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13. Proceed to the section Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks to perform the post Solaris installation tasks.

Installing Oracle Solaris 10 Using a PXE Network Environment

The following procedure describes how to boot the Solaris Operating System installation from a PXE network environment. It assumes that you are booting the installation media from one of the following sources:

• Solaris 10 10/09 DVD set (internal or external DVD)

• Solaris 10 10/09 ISO DVD image or Solaris JumpStart image (network repository)

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  Note - JumpStart can help you eliminate some or most of the manual tasks of setting up the Solaris Operating System for the first time on multiple servers. For more information about using a JumpStart image, see the Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations.

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Before You Begin

The following requirements must be met prior to starting the Solaris 10 PXE installation:

• To use PXE to boot the installation media over the network, you should have completed the following tasks:

  • PXE boot install server setup to export the installation.

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    Note - The PXE network boot does not work properly over subnets that include multiple DHCP servers. Therefore, you should set up only one DHCP server on the subnet that includes the client system that you want to install.

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  • Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers MAC network port address configured as a client system on the PXE boot install server.

  For further information about setting up and installing Solaris 10 from the network, see the Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations.

• If your install media source is a JumpStart installation image, the image must be properly prepared and ready for installation. Information concerning how to properly set up and deploy a JumpStart installation is outside the scope of this guide.

For details about creating a Solaris JumpStart image, see the Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations.

After completing the following procedure, you should review and perform the required post installation tasks described later in this chapter. For more details, see Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks.

Install Solaris 10 Using PXE Network Boot

1. Ensure that the PXE network environment is properly set up and the Oracle Solaris installation media is available for PXE boot.

   For details, see “Planning to Install Over the Network” in the Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations.

2. Reset the power on the server.

   For example:

   • From the ILOM web interface, select the Remote Control --> Remote Power Control tab, then select Reset from the Select Action list box.
   • From the local server, press the Power button (approximately 1 second) on the front panel of the server to turn the server off, then press the Power button again to power on the server.
   • From the ILOM CLI on server SP, type: reset /SYS

   The BIOS screen appears.

   
   

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   Note - The next events occur very quickly; therefore, focused attention is needed for the following steps. Please watch carefully for these messages as they appear on the screen for a brief time. You might want to enlarge the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.

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3. In the BIOS screen, press F8 to specify a temporary boot device.

   The Please Select Boot Device menu appears.

4. In the Boot Device menu, select the appropriate PXE boot port, then press Enter.

   The PXE boot port is the physical network port configured to communicate with your network install server.

   The GRUB menu appears.

5. In the GRUB menu, select Solaris_10 os, then press Enter.

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   Note - In the GRUB menu, if you want to redirect the install output to a serial console, press “e” to edit the GRUB menu. To support a serial console, append ,console=ttya to the boot flags on the kernel line.

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   The system loads the Solaris disk image into memory. This process can take several minutes. When it completes, the Install Type menu appears.

6. In the Install Type menu, choose the type of interface that you want to use to perform the installation.
   • Graphical User Interface (default) – Type 1 then press Enter.
   • Text Installer From Desktop Session – Type 3 then press Enter.
   • Text Installer From Console Session – Type 4 then press Enter.

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   Note - The screens that are displayed on your system might differ depending on the type of interface you chose to configure in Step 6. The sample screens appearing in this procedure are based on the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) option (option 1).

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   The system discovers and configures the devices and interfaces. If the system discovers a keyboard, the Configure Keyboard Layout menu appears.

7. In the Configure Keyboard Layout menu, select the appropriate keyboard layout, then press Enter.

   The system configures the keyboard layout selection and searches for configuration files.

   If you selected a GUI installation in the previous steps, the next two steps (Step 8 and Step 9) confirm that the GUI is functioning. If you did not select a GUI interface previously, skip to Step 10.

   
   
8. In the Discovering Network Configuration and Starting Solaris Interactive Installation screen, press Enter.

   A second screen appears to confirm that the GUI is functioning.

   
   
9. In the screen that is confirming the text shown is legible, press Enter.

   The Language Selection menu appears.

10. In the Language Selection menu, type the selected language ID number (0-9), then press Enter.

    After a few moments the Welcome screen appears.

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    Note - The sample screen shown below reflects the GUI installation program. If you are running a text-based installation interface, the text-based Welcome screen (not shown) will appear.

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11. In the Welcome screen, click Next to begin the installation.

    If you preconfigured all of the system information, the installation program does not prompt you to enter any configuration information. If you did not preconfigure all the system information, the installation program prompts you for this information on several configuration screens.

12. Continue the normal Solaris installation and, if necessary, refer to the Solaris documentation for additional details.

    After the installation completes, the system will automatically reboot (if you previously selected this option during the configuration procedure) and displays the Solaris login prompt.

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    Note - If you did not configure the system to automatically reboot when the installation completes, you must manually reboot the system.

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13. Proceed to the section Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks to perform the post Solaris installation tasks.

Post Oracle Solaris Installation Tasks

After completing the Solaris installation and rebooting the Solaris Operating System, review the following post installation tasks and, if necessary, perform the tasks that are applicable to your system.

• Install Critical Oracle Solaris Patches

• Install RAID Management Software

Install Critical Oracle Solaris Patches

The following table identifies the critical Oracle Solaris patches available to install on your system. Review this table to determine which patches, if any, are currently required for installation on your system.

Critical Solaris Patches

Install RAID Management Software

If you have a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA installed on your server, you should install the Sun RAID management software, which is available on the Tools and Drivers DVD. If you do not install the RAID management software on your system, the Solaris OS will not be able to detect and report disk errors.

For more details about installing the RAID management software, refer to the documentation shipped with the HBA or the LSI MegaRAID SAS Software User’s Guide at:

http://www.lsi.com/support/sun/