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Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Systems Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
Part I Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Options
1. Overview of Installation Options
Part II Installing Using Installation Media
2. Preparing for the Installation
Installing With the GUI installer
Default Settings With GUI Installer
How to Perform a GUI Installation
What to Do If Your System Boots in Console Mode
How to Install Oracle Solaris From the LiveCD If Your System Boots in Console Mode
Adding Software After LiveCD Installation
5. Automated Installations That Boot From Media
6. Unconfiguring or Reconfiguring an Oracle Solaris instance
Part III Installing Using an Install Server
7. Automated Installation of Multiple Clients
8. Setting Up an Install Server
10. Provisioning the Client System
11. Configuring the Client System
12. Installing and Configuring Zones
13. Running a Custom Script During First Boot
14. Setting Up Oracle Configuration Manager For Use By AI Client Systems
If your system's graphics card is not supported by the LiveCD, or your system does not have a graphics card, the system boots in console mode when you insert the LiveCD. In this case, you cannot perform a GUI installation.
Your two alternatives are as follows:
Use the text installer image instead of the LiveCD ISO image.
You can run the text installer on the local console without network access. See Chapter 4, Using the Text Installer.
Perform a remote installation using the following procedure.
Note - If you use this option, you do not need to download the text installer image. However, note that this option requires remote ssh access and a target system that has an X server running.
Before You Begin
For this procedure, two networked systems are required: the system on which the LiveCD was booted (target system) and a remote system, from which the installation will be performed. Both systems must have network access. It is not required that the two systems be on the same subnet. However, the target system must be reachable from the remote system. Also, the remote system must be running an OS that supports a graphical desktop.
The default user login and password for Oracle Solaris is jack.
$ su root Password: solaris
The root password is solaris.
# svcadm enable ssh:default
# ifconfig -a
$ ssh -X ip-address-of-target -l jack
where ip-address-of-target is the output of the ifconfig -a command that you ran on the target system.
Running this command on the remote system opens a secure shell, enabling you to access the target system to use the GUI installer.
$ su root Password: solaris
Note - The default root password prior to installation is “solaris.”
# /usr/bin/gui-install
Note - Installer graphic display may be imperfect using this method.
See Also
See Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks for information about the following topics:
Managing user accounts and groups
Booting and shutting down a system
Managing services
Managing hardware faults
Managing system processes
Troubleshooting general system problems such as the following:
What to do if rebooting fails
What to do if you forgot the root password
What to do if a system hangs