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Getting Started With Oracle Solaris 11 Express Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Exploring Oracle Solaris 11 Express
2. Preparing to Install Oracle Solaris 11 Express
Oracle Solaris 11 Express Installation Options
System Requirements for Installing Oracle Solaris
Additional Installation Considerations
Preparing a Boot Environment That Supports the Installation of Multiple Operating Systems
Guidelines for Partitioning a System Prior To Installation
x86: How to Partition a System Prior to Installation
Guidelines for Partitioning a System During an Interactive Installation
x86: Setting Up Partitions During an Interactive Installation
Setting Up Solaris VTOC Slices With the Text Installer
How to Prepare to Install Oracle Solaris From the Live CD or Text Installer
Preparing to Run Oracle Solaris 11 Express in a Virtual Machine
Ensuring That You Have the Proper Device Drivers
How to Use the Device Driver Utility
How to Use the Oracle Device Detection Tool
3. Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Express
4. Verifying and Finalizing Your Installed System
5. Understanding Users and Roles
7. Setting Up Your Application Development Environment
8. Keeping Your System Up-To-Date
A. Managing the GRUB Menu in the Oracle Solaris Release
On an x86 based system, you can select, create, or modify partitions during an interactive installation. For the text installer only, you can select, create, or modify Solaris VTOC slices during an interactive installation.
Note - Changes you make to disk partitioning or slices are not implemented until you finish making the installer panel selections and the installation begins. At any point prior to the installation, you can cancel your changes and restore the original settings.
When setting up x86 partitions or extended partitions during an interactive installation, keep the following in mind:
Only one Solaris partition is allowed.
A Solaris partition must be used for the installation.
If there is an existing Solaris partition, that partition is selected by default. The partition can be a logical partition within an existing extended partition.
If the existing partition table cannot be read, proposed partitioning information is displayed.
Caution - In this case, all of the existing data on the disk is destroyed during the installation. |
During the installation, if you select the “Partition the Disk” option, the panel displays the existing fdisk partitions for the selected disk. Up to four primary partitions are displayed in the same order that they are laid out on the disk. Unused disk space is displayed for these primary partitions. The partition type, current size, and maximum available disk space for each partition are also displayed. If an extended partition exists, its logical partitions are also displayed in the disk layout order, within the extended partition.
For installations on the x86 platform, you can make changes to disk partitioning by directly editing the entries in the installation screens, as they are displayed. As you proceed through the installation, the recommended and minimum sizes for installing the software are also displayed.
The following table describes the disk partitioning options that you can choose from. Use this table to help you determine which option best suits your needs.
Table 2-2 Options for Partitioning a Disk During an Interactive Installation
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For text installations on the SPARC platform, you can modify VTOC slices during the installation. For text installations on the x86 platform, you can modify a slice within a partition, if that partition has not already been modified during the installation.
When setting up VTOC slices, keep the following in mind:
The installer displays the existing slices. The slices are displayed in the order in which they are laid out. The current size and maximum available size for each slice are also displayed.
Oracle Solaris must be installed in an Oracle ZFS root pool. By default, the slice that contains the root pool is labeled rpool by the installer. If you want to install the operating system on a slice that does not contain the root pool, change the type for that slice to rpool in the installer. During the installation, a ZFS root pool will be created on that slice.
Note - Because there can only one ZFS pool named rpool, if there already is an rpool on the device, the installer names any new pool using the format rpool#.
The size of a slice can be increased up to the maximum available size. You can change a slice to Unused, thereby making its space available to adjacent slices.
If the slice is not explicitly altered, the content of the slice is preserved during the installation.
The following table describes the options for modifying slices during a text installation.
Table 2-3 Options for Modifying VTOC Slices During a Text Installation
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For x86 based systems, from the live CD, you can install the operating system either on your system or in a virtual machine.
Alternatively, for both SPARC and x86 based systems, you can install Oracle Solaris by using a text installer. The text installer can be used on systems that do not have graphics cards.
Note - Depending on your system configuration, the text installer may require less memory. If the GUI installer on the live CD does not work on your system, use the text installer instead.
You can download the live CD bootable image or the text installer image at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html.
You also have the option to download a USB image for x86 based systems.
Note - The Device Driver Utility can require at least 1.5 GB of memory. If your system has an adequate complement of devices to perform an installation, first complete the installation, then boot the installed hard disk before running the Device Driver Utility. Then, the utility can take advantage of the swap space on the installed system.
Caution - If you already have an Oracle Solaris fdisk partition on your system, the installation overwrites this partition. |
When partitioning your system, this step is strongly recommended. For instructions, see Step 1 of Guidelines for Partitioning a System Prior To Installation.
The following are the various options for running Oracle Solaris in a virtual machine:
Run the Oracle Solaris live CD ISO image as a “guest” in the VirtualBox software. For instructions, see Running Oracle Solaris 11 Express in VirtualBox.
Use the distribution constructor to design and build your own pre-installed Oracle Solaris virtual machine.
If you are installing Oracle Solaris 11 Express on a system that is running Mac OS X, and Parallels is also installed, see Running Oracle Solaris on a Mac OS X System With Parallels Installed.