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The DVD boots to an initial GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) menu where I'm prompted to select one of the following boot options:

1. Solaris Developer Express 2. Solaris Express 3. Solaris Express Serial console ttya 4. Solaris Express Serial console ttyb (fir lx50, v60x and v65x)

The DVD spins some more and I'm presented with this menu

1. Solaris Interactive (default) 2. Apply driver updates 3. Single user shell

After selecting option 1. Java is setup, a windowing system is extracted and system identification begins....Shortly after which I'm presented with a warning that I must pay attention now as the next screen requires input from me within 30 seconds or I will face a non-GUI install. The system pauses at this point waiting for me to press Return...

A windowing systems presents a single window, or text widget, with the following:

Press return if you can read this

I hit return. Then select my language, English. Select Continent and Country, Europe / Britain (UK). I get other questions like these... When I realise that I'm using the touch pad on a graphical display, fantastic! Well, it is for me, As said back at the start I'm used to simply watching the system install its self over the network and or pressing function keys.

A little while later I get to a "Customize Fdisk Partitions" screen and I can see my FAT32LBA partition and the, newly named, "Solaris" partition.

This is followed, as I hoped, by the "Lay Out File Systems" window where I can now create Solaris mount points or Virtual disks within the fdisk (as created by parted partition). The install has offered me some defaults which I could simply accept.

However as I want to use live upgrade I created the following layout:

	Slice	File System	Size	Comment
	0	/	10000mb	Initial root
	1	/swap	2048mb	I hope for sys-suspend
	2	/root	10000mb	alternative root
	6	/opt	5000mb	Optional packages
	7	/export	30140mb	home

I only need half the space that I allocated to the root partitions and to /opt, but I'm being cautious. Incidentally I created a /opt as when I've live-upgraded my Sparc machine my /opt was getting left-out (or so I believe) But I'm not certain that I need it. No time to read up about that as I need to go and do other chores. Thus I set the install process off....

Stace

Tag: x86 Solaris