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- Solaris Os
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- ATX Motherboard For EPYC 7702 - Supermicro H11 Or H12?
- Basic System Requirements
Back in the late 80s and through the 90s, Unix workstations were super powerful, super cool, and super expensive. If you were making 3D graphics or developing applications, you wanted a high-performance workstation and Sun made some of the best ones. But unless you worked for a huge company, university, or government, they were probably too expensive.
More than twenty years later, we have much more powerful and affordable computers, so let's emulate the old systems and see what it was like to run some of the coolest computers you could buy in the 90s.
Possible workaround is to re-plug in the CD/DVD drive, and make sure the device is in the device tree and the /dev/dsk/ link is correctly created, and mount it under /cdrom manually, then continue installation by /sbin/install-solaris. Installation to USB hard disk seems slow and then hangs somewhere. Mar 06, 2020 EDIT 3: tried with minimal install usb file and yet the same problem. I cann't boot from usb stick (usb-3, 16gb stick). EIDT 4: also tried with OpenSolaris live usb creator (Installation From USB Stick), but still problem. This time i see only grub-cli. No install menu, nor grub menu i can think off 2 reasons. Feb 20, 2019 I need to install an operating system onto a Hyper-V virtual machine via a bootable USB flash drive. I am not using an ISO file. It has to be from this bootable USB flash. SPARC T7-4 doesn't have local CDROM. So I was decided to install from USB Flash. I created USB Flash Drive from USB Image (SPARC USB Text Installer (991 MB), which I found on the web site by address Oracle Solaris 11.3 Downloads - Installation from CD/DVD or USB. I putted that stick to the servers usb port and found it from OBP using command.
Sun workstations started out running SunOS, based on BSD Unix (like NeXTSTEP), but in 1991 they replaced it with Solaris, based on Unix System V Release 4 (like AIX and HP-UX).
The first version of Solaris was actually Solaris 2, and to try and make sense they went back and named SunOS Solaris 1, but in the operating system it still refers to itself as SunOS. So Solaris 1 is SunOS 4, and Solaris 2 is SunOS 5, and Solaris 2.6 that we'll run is SunOS 5.6. Confused yet?
Ignore the naming conventions and just know that we'll run Solaris 2.6 from 1997. For comparison, at that time a PC would be running Windows 95 and Apple released Mac OS 8 the same year.
You'll need:
- The latest version of QEMU, for this guide version 3.1.0 worked well.
- A system to run it on - Windows, Linux, or Mac
- For added fun, a Sun Type 5 keyboard converted to USB with Drakware's Sun2USB or DIY with the SPARC keyboard specification and a small Arduino like the Trinket M0
Rather than using a virtual machine to run the x86 version of Solaris, we'll use QEMU to emulate the actual SPARC hardware used by Sun machines back in the 90s. SPARC stands for Scalable Processor Architecture and is a RISC (reduced instruction set computing) design.
For Windows, you can download the latest binary from the QEMU site. I used the 20190218 build.
For macOS you can use homebrew to install it:
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If you're running Linux, your distribution might have an older version of QEMU so you'll need to get the source and compile it. That goes a bit beyond this guide so take a look at the download page for more info.
The disk format that QEMU uses is called qcow2. We'll make a 9.1GB disk, that's plenty to hold Solaris and have a lot of room left over.
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Disks in Solaris need to be labelled before they can be used, so we can't install just yet. First we need to boot into Solaris to format and label the disk we just made.
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Let's take a look at the options:
The suite life of zack and cody hindi torrent. qemu-system-sparc - run the emulator for a 32-bit SPARC system
-M SS-5 - emulate a SPARCstation 5
-m 128 - 128 MB of RAM
-drive file=sparc.qcow2,bus=0,unit=0,media=disk - Use our disk image, put it on SCSI bus 0, unit 0
-drive file=solaris_2.6_598_sparc.iso,bus=0,unit=2,media=cdrom,readonly=on - Use the Solaris 2.6 ISO as a CD drive, SCSI bus 0, unit 2
Once you run that, the OpenBIOS ROM should start first and bring you to a prompt, type:
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The system should boot into single user mode and bring you to a root prompt (#). First we run a few commands to prep the system, then we'll format the disk.
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Solaris only knows about a few specific disk types, so we need to specify our own geometry.
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All set. Now type q to quit the format utility and type reboot to restart the system. It's time to install!
The reboot should take you back to OpenBIOS. Boot from the CD again but this time into the installer:
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Time to install! For the most part, the defaults are fine, but there are a few places where you'll want to make changes.
When you reach the networking options, pick a hostname and check Yes for Networked. Use 10.0.2.15 for the IP address, QEMU has its own internal network.
Name service: Other
Part of a subnet: No
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Now set the time zone, time, and date. When you get to 'Allocate Client Services' just click Continue. Pick an additional language if you'd like one.
Choose how much you want to install. End User is enough to run it, Developer will let you build things, and Entire Distribution will just install everything. If you really want to, you can Customize the installation but it's easy to break things so it's best to stick with the available software groups.
It should auto-select the available disk for you but if not you can select it and click the right arrow to add it to the selected disks.
When it asks about preserving data you can click continue. Click Auto Layout and continue, the defaults are fine. Click continue on the remote file systems page.
Now you can review the last few options. If it looks good click Begin Installation.
Make sure you choose Manual Reboot when prompted - we need to change some settings or else it won't boot.
Once everything is finished you should see 'The finish script log `finish log` is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after reboot.' followed by a root prompt (#).
Now that the installation has finished we need to adjust a few settings to make everything work, we'll use the console to do it. Below, ^D means push Ctrl+D.
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First we'll set the SCSI flags so it'll boot properly.
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Next we need some network settings. Let's add a default router, the address that QEMU uses is 10.0.2.2.
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Now configure DNS. The nameserver is 10.0.2.3.
By default, Solaris doesn't use a nameserver at all so we need to enable it. The first 3 lines make that change to nsswitch.conf and save it in a new file, replace the old file, then set the right permissions.
Next we tell it what nameserver to use by adding a line to the resolv.conf file.
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All set! Time to reboot, just type reboot and hit enter.
The root account has full access to everything, so it's a very good idea to set a password. It's also a good idea to set up a normal user account. We'll do that next.
Here's the login screen, go ahead and log in as root with the password you just set. Once you push enter or click OK, it will ask which desktop environment you'd like. CDE is the default and a good choice, OpenWindows is the older environment.
Welcome to CDE!
A bunch of windows will open, you can close them all or take a look if you like. The Help Viewer will give you an introduction to the CDE desktop.
The panel on the bottom has everything you need, each icon will launch something or the arrow on top will expand a tray with more things to run. We want to create a new user, so open up Applications, go to System_Admin, then run Admintool.
Go to Edit, Add, and add a user for yourself. The defaults are fine for most of it. For the home directory path at the bottom you'll want to use /export/home/youruser. Click OK, then exit Admintool. Click exit down at the bottom of the panel and OK to log out. Now you can log in as your new user and the system will prompt you to set a password. The mouse needs to be in the password window to focus it. Once set you'll be able to login.
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You'll get all the windows opening again, plus one that wants you to register. You can just click Never Register.
When you want to shut down, click Exit again, then go to Options and Command Line Login. Press enter to get a console login prompt, login as root, then type shutdown now. After that you can quit QEMU.
Next time you start you can leave out the CD part:
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That's it! Enjoy your Solaris system!
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This guide was first published on Apr 26, 2019. It was lastupdated on Apr 26, 2019.