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Friday June 23, 2006

Solaris Installation Last week I tried a couple of experiments with installation for fun. I had to install Solaris on a laptop and then install Blastwave/Companion CD stuffs/Soffice etc..etc... I knew it would take long time for setting it up but I had flasharchive which was fully configured which was taken from Acer Ferrari 4000 Laptop. Following were the list of things I had.

* Laptop which was Intel 32bit architecture.
* Acer Ferrari 4000 flasharchive which was taken for AMD64 architecture.
* Flasharchive was Solaris 11 build 38.
* I had Solaris 11 build 40 DVD

So I booted laptop with Solaris 11 build 40 DVD and installed build 38 flasharchive which was taken from Acer Ferrari Laptop on Intel P3 machice it worked without any issue. Posted by pradhap ( Jun 23 2006, 07:40:02 PM PDT ) Permalink

Wednesday June 21, 2006

Solaris on Sony Vaio Laptop Last week I was trying to install Solaris 11 on Sony Vaio laptop PCG-FX340K . Started installation of Solaris Nevada but interactive installation fails because this laptop has i815 chipset. So follow below steps for installation

> Interactive installation would fail so use Solaris Console mode installation.

> After intial installation make sure you boot up Solaris with “-s” for single user mode.

> Now run the command for adding vga driver

~# update_drv -a -i ‘”pci8086,1132”‘ agptarget Which will add /etc/driver_aliases for i815 chipset

> Now download X.org file and copy it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

> For sound driver you need to download package from audio-1.8-i86pc.pkg.bz2    bunzip it and then do “pkgadd -d audio-1.8-i86pc.pkg” for installation.

Screenshot from laptop.

Posted by pradhap ( Jun 21 2006, 07:12:44 AM PDT ) Permalink

Thursday June 15, 2006

Solaris x86 bootarchive recover In Solaris 10 update 1 onwards new boot archicture was introduced to use Grub as the bootloader. Sometimes on x86 machines if boot archive is corrupt system doesnot bootup . To recover boot archive follow the below steps.
While in the Grub screen select "Solaris Failsafe" entry. This will boot into a minimal recovery mode. It will detect your Solaris install on harddisk and ask user to
  whether to mount it on  /a  . Reply "y" to that question.
Now execute the following commands:

#rm -f /a/platform/i86pc/boot_archive
#bootadm update-archive -R /a

Next reboot using the command:  init 6 .
This should recover the bootarchive
More details at BigAdmin
Posted by pradhap ( Jun 15 2006, 05:29:36 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]