Having fun with Sun Solaris 10 in a VMWare VM

Having fun with Sun Solaris 10 in a VMWare VM

Select Solaris 10 as the Guest OS. I created a new 4GB ide disk, no sound device, no usb, 256MB of memory, bridged networking, specified the correct mouse, and am using the 1st iso image to install from.

I tried option 1 for Solaris Interactive, it promptly locked up my vm. Select option 3 instead - Solaris Interactive Text-only Installer.

Step 3

Step 4

Language selection

The text based intro to the Solaris Installation Program

kdmconfig - Introduction. Here you are asked to set up the window system. I pressed F2 to continue.

Defaults looked OK, pressed F2 to continue.

Was offered the option to test the current window configuration. Pressed F2 to perform the test.

The VM promptly rebooted. Some test.

Came back up and skipping testing the window config. Here I am asked to identify the system.

Yes, we want networking.

Yes, use dhcp for now.

No, no IPv6.

Step 15

No, don't use kerberos.

Step 17

Select DNS for name resolution.

Enter the domain name.

Enter the DNS servers. Note the installer is not intelligent enough to see you have opted for dhcp and prompt you to use dhcp for these values.

More resolver related info.

Step 22

Don't know what this error meant. Perhaps the network card had not obtained an address from DHCP at this point? I ignored the error and continued.

Time zone selection

Step 25

Step 26

Date/Time settings

Step 28

Set root password

Step 30

Description of software package choices.

Eject the CD after installation?

Automatically or manually boot after install?

Step 34

License agreement

Locale selection

Step 37

Select products to install

Step 39

Select which software package group to install. I chose the default "Entire Distribution" which consists of 2980MB.

Select disks to install solaris on.

Warning that the disk has not been partitioned.

Tell it to use all 4 gig.

Step 44

Tell it to use auto-layout to create the filesystems.

Step 46

Opted to change swap from 1GB down to 512MB.

Step 48

Step 49

Displays your install profile.

Gives me a strange warning, perhaps because I had booted off of a CD for the install instead of a hard drive.

Installation progress meter. Took about 10 minutes to install everything from the 1st CD. Never prompted me for any more CDs.

Informs me that Install of CD 1 is complete.

Step 54

Reboot

Boot partition selection. I thought lilo was ugly :)

Boot options prompt

Uh, looks like it could not figure out how to get the host name by reverse looking up the DHCP assigned address.

It appears to be asking me to set up X again, I opted to bypass.

A warning that X was not set up, and looks like it wants to syslog to a remote host. Asks for the root password to fix X, or control-D to continue booting. I entered the root password.

Back into kdmconfig.

Decided to change the video card to the vmware X server.

Step 63

Step 64

Step 65

Step 66

Step 67

Prompted to save and test. Last time this rebooted the VM.

Step 69

X test screen. Oooh, aaahh, isn't that awesome :)

The box comes up unusable. Looks like it couldn't figure out its DHCP assigned host name, and java took a puke, rendering the system useless. Not very impressive, at all.

I turned on use-host-decl-names in dhcp and created a fixed-address entry for the VM. Booted up to a tty login.

Having fun with Sun Solaris 10 in a VMWare VM
Select Solaris 10 as the Guest OS. I created a new 4GB ide disk, no sound device, no usb, 256MB of memory, bridged networking, specified the correct mouse, and am using the 1st iso image to install from.
I tried option 1 for Solaris Interactive, it promptly locked up my vm. Select option 3 instead - Solaris Interactive Text-only Installer.
Step 3
Step 4
Language selection
The text based intro to the Solaris Installation Program
kdmconfig - Introduction. Here you are asked to set up the window system. I pressed F2 to continue.
Defaults looked OK, pressed F2 to continue.
Was offered the option to test the current window configuration. Pressed F2 to perform the test.
The VM promptly rebooted. Some test.
Came back up and skipping testing the window config. Here I am asked to identify the system.
Yes, we want networking.
Yes, use dhcp for now.
No, no IPv6.
Step 15
No, don't use kerberos.
Step 17
Select DNS for name resolution.
Enter the domain name.
Enter the DNS servers. Note the installer is not intelligent enough to see you have opted for dhcp and prompt you to use dhcp for these values.
More resolver related info.
Step 22
Don't know what this error meant. Perhaps the network card had not obtained an address from DHCP at this point? I ignored the error and continued.
Time zone selection
Step 25
Step 26
Date/Time settings
Step 28
Set root password
Step 30
Description of software package choices.
Eject the CD after installation?
Automatically or manually boot after install?
Step 34
License agreement
Locale selection
Step 37
Select products to install
Step 39
Select which software package group to install. I chose the default "Entire Distribution" which consists of 2980MB.
Select disks to install solaris on.
Warning that the disk has not been partitioned.
Tell it to use all 4 gig.
Step 44
Tell it to use auto-layout to create the filesystems.
Step 46
Opted to change swap from 1GB down to 512MB.
Step 48
Step 49
Displays your install profile.
Gives me a strange warning, perhaps because I had booted off of a CD for the install instead of a hard drive.
Installation progress meter. Took about 10 minutes to install everything from the 1st CD. Never prompted me for any more CDs.
Informs me that Install of CD 1 is complete.
Step 54
Reboot
Boot partition selection. I thought lilo was ugly :)
Boot options prompt
Uh, looks like it could not figure out how to get the host name by reverse looking up the DHCP assigned address.
It appears to be asking me to set up X again, I opted to bypass.
A warning that X was not set up, and looks like it wants to syslog to a remote host. Asks for the root password to fix X, or control-D to continue booting. I entered the root password.
Back into kdmconfig.
Decided to change the video card to the vmware X server.
Step 63
Step 64
Step 65
Step 66
Step 67
Prompted to save and test. Last time this rebooted the VM.
Step 69
X test screen. Oooh, aaahh, isn't that awesome :)
The box comes up unusable. Looks like it couldn't figure out its DHCP assigned host name, and java took a puke, rendering the system useless. Not very impressive, at all.
I turned on use-host-decl-names in dhcp and created a fixed-address entry for the VM. Booted up to a tty login.