The usbcopy command enables users to deploy removable usb stick with oracle solaris usb install image created by distribution constructor. Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. Solaris 11 home file server using zfs oracle scaling. Open a virtual box and create the virtual machine for oracle solaris 11 64 bit. The attachment pic1 shows what i am seeing via the console. Using this utility, you can create liveusb stick from. The only thing usbcopy adds is verifying the copy as it goes. This use is limited to developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating applications using solaris, but the terms are loose enough that pretty much any personal, noncommercial, nonproduction use is allowed. Installing oracle solaris 11 in virtualbox the geek diary. In this video we look at the options for install oracle solaris 11 on the intel platform. The usbcopy command is available in the distributionconstructor package. Since openstack is new to solaris administrators, oracle provides the prebuilt templates to install oracle solaris 11. Mounting windows ntfs on open solaris x86x64 guest author the steps outlined in this blog post are derived from the miscellaneous filesystem support for opensolaris on x86 link removed on.
For this test, ive used a solaris 11 vm on virtualbox on my laptop as below. Installing solaris from a usb disk oracle the good, the. Download the usb file for your target system architecture. With oracle solaris 11, users can conveniently leverage software shared on the internet. The installer on the live media iso image is for x86 platforms only. Installing solaris express 11 on a usb stick oracle. Is there any way to download the iso of solaris 11. I wish to install solaris 11 64 bit as dual boot on windows 7 home edition 32 bit. To create a live usb with windows, use the opensolaris live usb creator. The version of usbcopy in oracle solaris 11 11 11 will fail since it is not aware of the new grub2 boot loader. Since dd is a block level, not a file level copy, you dont need to make the usb device bootable or anything like that.
Solaris installation solaris can be installed in many different ways, but most suitable for current situation is through usb media. I recommend you to back up entire data on your pc before using this. Installing openindiana confluence mobile openindiana wiki. It was based on solaris, which was originally released by sun in 1991. The live media contains software that is more appropriate for a desktop or laptop. Please follow the below oracle document to download the solaris iso images. Oracle solaris 11 downloads and prepared using the solaris usbcopy utility. This one was never modified to support solaris distributions. Net officially, if you would like to create opensolaris liveusb memory stick, you should have to execute the usbcopy script on a solaris opensolaris platform. Usb images must be transferred to a usb flash drive. If you dont have a solaris opensolaris, it becomes and chickenegg problem. I am attempting to boot and install solaris 11 via live usb on a hp dl580 gen9 server. Mounting windows ntfs on opensolaris x86x64 oracle.
I have a blank t5120 server without any optical drive onto which i want to install solaris 11. The first one is to use usbcopy, that is only available with an existing solaris 11 machine. In order to create solaris installation media on usb, one of solaris utility called usbcopy can be used. Use usbcopy command to copy the downloaded usb file to pen drive. You have to use usbcopy, part of distributionconstructor package. This utility touch hardware devices which connected to your windows pc. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on, including those to make the installation experience easier, to modernise the look and feel of opensolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a networkbased package management system into solaris. I used it for several times but i destroyed since i needed some data to copy in th usb, its fairly simple but the only constraint is it can be done from already installed solaris 11 express. Neither microsoft windows nor linux can match solaris in this type of highend. The top tier of free and open source software in oracle solaris 11 is fully supported per the terms of oracles premier support for oracle solaris. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 by admin. Hiroshi chonan, to make a live usb stick 16g sandisk cruzer. Installing openindiana openindiana openindiana wiki. Images for several opensolaris versions are available.
With the live dvd we can both boot up and text solaris as well as running the graphical installer. The installer is graphical and requires x11, although it is possible to use it over a network with ssh x. The xorg server is designed to configure automatically and can run in most situations without the need to edit configuration files. It doesnt include applications that will run on oracle solaris 11 that were designed and build for oracle solaris 10 nor 8 and 9 for that matter. Hello all, i am attempting to boot and install solaris 11 via live usb on a hp dl580 gen9 server. Oracle doesnt seem to care about solaris 11 code leak on ars technica by sean. I used the same utilty and procedure to install sunos openindiana 5. This vm template is for use in oracle vm virtualbox, a crossplatform tool that runs on windows, linux, mac os x, and oracle solaris. I wish there were more interest in this os, i think it has.
Additionally, installation images can be copied to usb media by using the dd1m command or its equivalent command on other platforms in addition to the usbcopy 1m command. The solaris 11 does not come bundled with the desktop gui package by. Hello recently i found this for me really usefull tool kexec which can load a new kernel while running one. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. Unfortunately, when i do this it boots into system maintenance mode. Thats all contained in the blocks copied to the device. Installing the single system installing and configuring openstack. What i mean is that i want to install solaris 11 to a usb drive, so that the full.
I tested it some times with the same kernel i was running, rebooting the system without powering it off at any time. However, i do not wish to install it on a virtual box. The short answer is yes, with limits, solaris 11 can be used without fee for personal, noncommercial, nonproduction use. Download usb image of solaris 11 on the download page. You can find the list of the top tier free and open source software here. You may also be interested in the solaris ready usb faq. First off, in order to create a solaris 11 bootable usb stick, you need the usbcopy utility which is only on solaris 11. When i select to boot from the usb stick, the machine displays a prompt prefixed with grub and only allows me to run a few about twenty commands. Download from this site please rename to osolliveusb003.
Oracle solaris 11 downloads installation from cddvd or usb. I decided i no longer see the sense of burning a dvd to do this. Many of the oracle solaris administrators would like to try the openstack stuffs but deployment is not so easy on it. Alternative to using usbcopy to create solaris text installer usb stick. I have a server that does not have a cddvd drive how can opensolaris be installed using usb interface. P the unix and linux forums solaris 11 install via live usb.
Next install solaris because it is limited in the number of partitions that can exit on install why, gpt allows. Oracle solaris 11 can be installed from installation media by using any of the following installers or methods. See the download options for oracle developer studio here. I have an empty 150 gb ntfs partition and i wish to install solaris on this partition. You can edit the software name element to specify a. Discover the new capabilities of oracle solaris in our documentation. No, youve to use the usbcopy utility from the distributionconstructor package.
Get the latest resources from presentations to howto videos. Boot from the solaris usb live media and let it boot up to the full gui x windows open a terminal and su to root. And what could be better than installing a solaris 11 virtual machine in virtual box. When you install the new solaris 11 x86 box in your production environment or in lab environment under vmware workstation, you would not find the gui desktop as you would have got for connecting solaris 10 x86 server. To create a live usb with illumos, solaris or opensolaris, you may use the usbcopy tool. The usb stick can later be used to install oracle solaris os. Lius blog as an inspiration, but the following is what i have found worked well to boot an install image located on a usb disk. Installing the single system installing and configuring. How to configure xorg included in the oracle solaris os. Two procedures exist to transfer the image to the usb key.
A lot has been already said on solaris 11 new features, its performance etc so, i just wanted get my hands dirty by testing the new solaris 11. And the second procedure is to use dd utility, that is available on several operating system, windows including. Opensolaris an open source operating system based on solaris created by sun microsystems. Installing oracle solaris 11 by using installation media. Booting off the solaris 11 live dvd wont work because varpkglock and are read only. Solaris 11 install via live usb unix and linux forums. That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. Installations can be customized after the initial install process. The usbcopy script did not work straight away for me in solaris 11 oracle, but some interpretation yielded partial success though not a bootable usb stick. Boot from the solaris usb live media and let it boot up to the full gui xwindows.
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