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Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide

To Set Up for Upgrading

  1. Do you intend to install the Solaris software through a tip(1) line?

    • If no, go to the next step.

    • If yes, make sure your window display is at least 80 columns wide and 24 rows long.

      Note -

      To determine the current dimensions of your tip window, use the stty(1) command.

  2. Is your system capable of booting from a CD?

    • If yes, ensure that the capability is turned on by using your system's BIOS setup tool.

    • If no, insert the diskette labeled Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Intel Platform Edition into the system's diskette drive.

      Note -

      You can also download the Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant from the Solaris Driver Connection at http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers.

  3. Insert the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition into the system's CD-ROM drive.

    CD-ROM Drive - Tray Version 

    CD-ROM Drive - Caddy Version 

    1. Press the eject button on the front panel of the CD-ROM drive. A tray slides out.

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    2. Insert the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition (logo facing up) into the tray.

    3. Push the tray into the CD-ROM drive.

    1. To open the caddy, pinch the corners while lifting the lid at the center.

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    2. Insert the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition (logo facing up) and close the caddy.

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    3. With the arrow on the caddy pointing toward the CD-ROM drive, insert the caddy.

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  4. Boot the system by shutting it down and then turning it off and on.

    A memory test and hardware detection are executed. The screen refreshes.

    • If you're using the diskette labeled Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Intel Platform Edition, the message:


      Solaris Boot Sector                           Version 1

      is displayed at the top of your screen. Then, information similar to this is displayed:


      Solaris for x86 - Generic DCB                 Version 1.234






                       loading /solaris/boot.bin

      The screen refreshes and information similar to this is displayed:


      SunOS Secondary Boot version 3.00


             Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System


Running Configuration Assistant...

    • If you're using only the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition, the message:


      SunOS - Intel Platform Edition    Primary Boot Subsystem, vsn 2.0

      is displayed at the top of the screen. Then, information similar to this is displayed:


      SunOS Secondary Boot version 3.00

             Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System


Running Configuration Assistant...

  5. When the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant screen is displayed, press F2_Continue.

    The Bus Enumeration screen is displayed with the message:


    Determining bus types and gathering hardware configuration data ...

    The Scanning Devices screen is then displayed. System devices are scanned. When scanning is complete, the Identified Devices screen is displayed.

  6. Press F2_Continue.

    The Loading screen is displayed with messages about drivers that are loaded to boot your system. After a few seconds, the Boot Solaris screen is displayed.

  7. On the Boot Solaris screen, select CD and press F2_Continue.

    • If you're using the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition, the Running Driver screen is displayed briefly, followed by information similar to this:


                              <<< Current Boot Parameters >>>
Boot path: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@1/sd@0,0:a
Boot args: kernel/unix


                        <<< Starting Installation >>>

SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Solaris Web Start 3.0 installer

English has been selected as the language in which to perform the install.
Starting the Web Start 3.0 Solaris installer

Solaris installer is searching the system's hard disks for a 
location to place the Solaris installer software.

Your system appears to be upgradeable.
Do you want to do a Initial Install or Upgrade?

  1) Initial Install
  2) Upgrade
  Please Enter 1 or 2 >

    • If you're using the CD labeled Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition, information similar to this is displayed:


                              <<< Current Boot Parameters >>>
Boot path: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@1/sd@0,0:a
Boot args: kernel/unix


                        <<< Starting Installation >>>

SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
Solaris Web Start 3.0 installer
The Solaris Installer can be run in English, or any of the following languages:

  1) English           6) Japanese
  2) German            7) Korean
  3) Spanish           8) Swedish
  4) French            9) Simplified_Chinese
  5) Italian          10) Traditional_Chinese
Select the language you want to use to run the installer:

  8. Which installation CD are you using?

    • If the Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition CD, go to the next step.

    • If the Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition CD, type the number to select the language in which to display prompts, messages, and other installation information.

    Information similar to this is displayed (in the language you selected):


    language_you_selected has been selected as the language in which to perform the install.
Starting the Web Start 3.0 Solaris installer

Solaris installer is searching the system's hard disks for a 
location to place the Solaris installer software.

Your system appears to be upgradeable.
Do you want to do a Initial Install or Upgrade?

  1) Initial Install
  2) Upgrade
  Please Enter 1 or 2 >

  9. At the prompt, type 2 for upgrade and press Enter.

    Solaris Web Start searches the disk for swap slices that meet the minimum size requirements. Information similar to this is then displayed:


    Since swap slices are usually erased at each reboot,
the Solaris Installer would prefer to place the Solaris install image
on a slice labeled swap.


The Installer would like to use the disk slice c0d0s1, labeled as swap.

WARNING: All information will be lost.

Can the Solaris Installer use this slice?  [y,n,?,q]

  10. Do you want to use the disk slice shown on your screen?

    • If yes, type y and go to Step 18.

    • If no, type n and press Enter.

    Solaris Web Start searches the disk for slices that meet the minimum size requirements and are not located in any of the "upgradeable" root slices listed in /etc/vfstab, as described in Table 4-1. Information similar to this is displayed:


    1) c0d0s1
2) Find Another

"Find Another" allows the Solaris Installer to find other
slices that may meet the criteria found in the Solaris
install guide.
Please make a selection. >

  11. Do you want to use the disk slice shown on your screen?

    • If yes, type 1 and go to Step 18.

    • If no, type 2 and press Return.

    Solaris Web Start continues looking for another disk slice. If another disk slice is not found, the original swap shown on your screen is used by default. If another disk slice is found, information similar to this is displayed:


    The following slices were found to meet the 
criteria in the Solaris Install Guide.

WARNING: If one of the listed slices is chosen
         to be used by the Solaris Installer
         all information on the slice will be
         erased

1) c0d0s7 last mounted on /export/home
2) None


"None" will skip these disk slices and present
you with a listing of all disks on the system

Please make a selection from the choices above >

  12. Do you want to use one of the slices shown or None?

    Note -

    If you select None and a disk identifier, you can no longer upgrade the system. You must perform an initial installation.

    • If you want to use one of the slices shown, type the number of the slice you want and go to Step 18.

    • If None, type 2 and press Return.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    The default root disk is /dev/dsk/c0d0.
The Solaris installer needs to format
/dev/dsk/c0d0 to install Solaris.

WARNING: ALL INFORMATION ON THE DISK WILL BE ERASED!


Do you want to format /dev/dsk/c0d0?  [y,n,?,q]

  13. At the prompt, type y and press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    NOTE: The swap size cannot be changed during filesystem layout.


Enter a swap slice size between 384MB and 1865M, default = 512MB [?]

  14. At the prompt, press Enter to enter the default swap slice size, or type the swap slice size you want and press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    The Installer prefers that the swap slice is at the beginning of the
disk. This will allow the most flexible filesystem partitioning later in the installation.

Can the swap slice start at the beginning of the disk  [y,n,?,q]

  15. Do you want to place the swap space at the beginning of the disk (and thus improve the flexibility of partitioning the file systems and the efficiency with which the disk is accessed)?

    • If yes, type y and go to Step 18.

    • If no, type n and press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    WARNING: Placing the swap slice at a cylinder location other than cylinder 3
requires expert knowledge about disk layout. This choice may affect 
disk layout choices later in the installation.

Enter a starting cylinder between 3 and 687, default = 3 [?]

  16. Press Enter to enter the default starting cylinder (0), or type the starting cylinder you want and press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    You have selected the following to be used by the Solaris installer:

        Disk Slice  : /dev/dsk/c0d0
        Size        : 512 MB
        Start Cyl.  : 3

WARNING: ALL INFORMATION ON THE DISK WILL BE ERASED!


Is this OK  [y,n,?,q]

  17. At the prompt, type y.

  18. Press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    The Solaris installer will use disk slice, /dev/dsk/c0d0s1.
After files are copied, the system will automatically reboot, and
installation will continue.
Please Wait...

Copying mini-root to local disk....done.


Copying platform specific files....done.

Preparing to reboot and continue installation.
Need to reboot to continue the installation
Please remove the boot media (floppy or cdrom) and press Enter
Note: If the boot media is cdrom, you must wait for the system
to reset in order to eject.

  19. Did you insert the diskette labeled Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Intel Platform Edition into the system's diskette drive in Step 2?

    • If yes, eject the diskette from the system's diskette drive and press Enter.

    • If no, press Enter.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    Syncing file systems... 49 done
rebooting...

    The system resets, and a memory test and hardware detection are executed.

  20. Quickly, eject the Solaris 8 Installation English Intel Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual Intel Platform Edition CD from the CD-ROM drive before the system completes the memory test and hardware detection.

    Information similar to this is displayed:


    SunOS - Intel Platform Edition                   Primary Boot Subsystem, vsn 2.0


                        Current Disk Partition Information

                 Part#   Status    Type      Start       Length
                ================================================
                   1              DOS12          63       32193
                   2     Active   X86 BOOT    32256       36288
                   3              SOLARIS     68544     3842496
                   4              <unused>



               Please select the partition you wish to boot:

    After a few seconds, the screen refreshes and information similar to this is displayed:


    SunOS Secondary Boot version 3.00


             Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting System


Running Configuration Assistant...
Autobooting from bootpath /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ata@1/cmdk@0,0:b

If the system hardware has changed, or to boot from a different
device, interrupt the autoboot process by pressing ESC.


Initializing system
Please wait...


                      <<< Current Boot Parameters >>>
Boot path: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ata@1/cmdk@0,0:b
Boot args: 

Type    b [file-name] [boot-flags] <ENTER>      to boot with options
or      i <ENTER>                               to enter boot interpreter
or      <ENTER>                                 to boot with defaults

                  <<< timeout in 5 seconds >>>

Select (b)oot or (i)nterpreter: 
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Configuring /dev and /devices
Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.

    The Solaris Installation Program screen is then displayed.

  21. Press F2_Continue.

    The kdmconfig - Introduction screen is displayed.

  22. Press F2_Continue.

    The kdmconfig - View and Edit Window System Configuration screen is displayed.

  23. Examine the configuration information on the kdmconfig - View and Edit Window System Configuration screen and make any changes you need.

  24. When you're done, select No changes needed - Test/Save and Exit, and press F2_Continue.

    The kdmconfig Window System Configuration Test screen is displayed.

  25. Press F2_Continue.

  26. On the screen that is displayed, try to move the pointer and examine the colors shown on the palette to ensure that they're displayed accurately.

  27. Are the colors displayed accurately and can you move the pointer?

    • If no, either click No (if possible), press any key on the keyboard, or wait until kdmconfig exits the kdmconfig Window System Configuration Test screen automatically, and then repeat Step 23 through Step 27 until the colors are displayed accurately and you can move the pointer as expected.

    • If yes, click Yes.

      After a few seconds, the Welcome screen is displayed:Graphic