Installing Solaris 10 Using Local or Remote Media
Install Solaris 10 Using Local or Remote Media
Installing Solaris 10 OS Using a PXE Network Environment
Install Solaris 10 Using Network PXE Boot
Post Solaris Installation Tasks
A. Supported Installation Methods
B. BIOS Defaults for New Installations
C. Downloading the ISO Image for the Tools and Drivers DVD
This chapter provides information about installing the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS) on a Sun Fire X4470 Server.
This chapter includes the following topics:
For information describing how to configure the preinstalled Solaris 10 OS image, see the Sun Fire X4470 Server Installation Guide (821-0332) for setup instructions.
The following procedure describes how to boot the Solaris Operating System installation from local or remote media. It assumes that you are booting the installation media from one of the following sources:
Solaris 10 10/09 (or subsequent release) DVD set (internal or external DVD)
Solaris 10 10/09 (or subsequent release) ISO DVD image (network repository)
Note - If you are booting the installation media from a PXE environment, refer to Installing Solaris 10 OS Using a PXE Network Environment for instructions.
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 1, Getting Started .
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 Solaris Installation Tasks.
For additional information about how to set up the install media, see Appendix A, Supported Installation Methods.
For example:
The BIOS screen appears.
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.
The Please Select Boot Device menu appears.
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.
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.
The GRUB menu appears.
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.
The system loads the Solaris disk image into memory. This process can take several minutes. When it completes, the Install Type menu appears.
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).
The system discovers and configures the devices and interfaces. If the system discovers a keyboard, the Configure Keyboard Layout menu appears.
The system configures the keyboard layout selection and searches for configuration files.
If you selected a GUI installation in the earlier steps, the next two steps (Step 8 and Step 9) confirm that the GUI is functioning. If you did not select a GUI interface earlier, skip to Step 10.
A second screen appears to confirm that the GUI is functioning.
The Language Selection menu appears.
After a few moments the Welcome screen appears.
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.
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.
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.
Note - If you did not configure the system to automatically reboot when the installation completes, you must manually reboot the system.
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)
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 (821-0437).
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.
Sun Fire X4470 Server 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 (821-0439).
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 (821-0437).
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 Solaris Installation Tasks.
For details, see “Planning to Install Over the Network” in the Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations (821-0439).
For example:
The BIOS screen appears.
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.
The Please Select Boot Device menu appears.
The PXE boot port is the physical network port configured to communicate with your network install server.
The GRUB menu appears.
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.
The system loads the Solaris disk image into memory. This process can take several minutes. When it completes, the Install Type menu appears.
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).
The system discovers and configures the devices and interfaces. If the system discovers a keyboard, the Configure Keyboard Layout menu appears.
The system configures the keyboard layout selection and searches for configuration files.
If you selected a GUI installation in the earlier steps, the next two steps (Step 8 and Step 9) confirm that the GUI is functioning. If you did not select a GUI interface earlier, skip to Step 10.
A second screen appears to confirm that the GUI is functioning.
After a few moments the Welcome screen appears.
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.
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.
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.
Note - If you did not configure the system to automatically reboot when the installation completes, you must manually reboot the system.
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.
Note - Some SAS PCIe HBA option cards listed in this section might not yet be available for purchase. To determine which HBA option cards are available for purchase on the Sun Fire X4470 Server, go to the folowing web site and navigate to the appropriate page: http://www.oracle.com/goto/x4470.
The following table identifies the critical Solaris patches that are available to install on your system. Review this table to determine which patches, if any, are currently required for installation on your system.
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If you have a Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA installed on your server, you should install the RAID management software 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/