Dhanaraj M
Common issues/solutions during Solaris installation on Laptops
This blog will help to resolve issues during Solaris installation on Laptops.
1. Partitioning the hard disk
- Any software (Belenix/Gparted/etc) can be used
- If the windows drive is not accepting to make partitions, then windows drive might have errors. You might need to run "chkdsk /f" from the cmd line (or Boot into Recovery-mode and run CHKDSK
- The type of Solaris partition must be "unallocated"
- Goto cmd line & make that partition as Solaris partition (fdisk -l.... etc)
- If any other drives need to be shared across the Solaris partition, the partition type to be assigned is "Fat 32"
2. Installing SXDE
- If the RAM size is >= 1GB, choose Solaris-Express from the menu
- Otherwise choose "Solaris" and "Text and Console session" in the first and second menu respectively
3. Network detection - issue
- After the installation, if the network is not detected, then perform this "svcadm enable nwam"
4. Mount other drives using vfstab
-Add an entry for each of the drives in "/etc/vfstab" file
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
/dev/dsk/c1d0p0:1 - /win_c pcfs no yes -
/dev/dsk/c1d0p0:2 - /win_d pcfs no yes -
5. Audio driver - issue
- Download & install this package
- Download OSS driver
6. References
- Mount issues
Posted at 11:11PM Nov 27, 2007 by dhanarajm in Sun | Comments[0]