Re: Basic Question Solaris 9 installation

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:58:01 -0500

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:17:30 -0700, Hugh Kang wrote:

> We are currently using SCO Unix and have a plan to migrate it to Sun
> Solaris 9.

An excellent decision. Solaris is up-to-date and SCO quit maintaining
their OS a few years back.

> We've got an old Sun Sparc and installation guide for testing.

What model, how much memory, what drives are installed?

> It looks like it
> is not easy for us to understand how to install it because there are lots of
> stuffs in the guide. We don't have any experience with Sun Solaris. We think all
> Unix is very simliar.

Not really.

> As for SCO Unix, it is pretty much easy to install.
> All we have to do is inserting diskettes and C/Ds by instruction. Can anyone
> tell to us the simple installation method (initial installation)? Any simple
> procedure of it?

If you have a sun4m or sun4u processor, enough memory and large enough
drives along with a CDROM drive then just place Software CD 1/2 into the
CDROM, bring the machine to an ok prompt and

ok boot cdrom

That should start the installation process and most everything is rather
well explained to you on the screen. Initially you either accept the
default partitioning scheme or select some amount of swap, say 512MB, and
allocate all the rest of the drive space to the root partition, /.

You may find further information here:

http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/

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