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Sun Solaris 10 Download X86 Dvd Iso Torrent. For example, on a SPARC Solaris 10 Update 9 system, you will see an s10su9wos entry or you might see s10xu8wos for x86 Solaris 10 Update 8. All files referenced on this page fall under the same as other packages on this site. Recently I had a DBA at an IOUG event complain that they were unable to install from the Solaris 11.2 ISO. They had seen me demo Openstack a few weeks ago, and wanted to know how to install Solaris 11.2 in a VM. So guys here is a step by step for you. First, you will need to download the Solaris 11.2.
Virtual Environments provide an excellent “sandbox” for you to try out and get some real hands on experience with Oracle Solaris™ (x86). I’ve run Oracle Solaris (x86) in both VirtualBox™ and VMware™, but I prefer VirtualBox. After installing your Virtual Machine, you can add and clone additional Virtual Machines and start up more than one at a time to simulate a network of Solaris systems. I tell my students to setup a local lab to practice everything they’ve learned in class.
For those who are using my book, setup a lab on your PC to follow the examples in my book. If you are fortunate to have a SPARC server, you can download Solaris for that too.
You may download and install Solaris 10 or 11 for free. It’s perfectly legal, but read the Oracle agreement and terms of use. These instructions detail how to download and setup on an x86/AMD desktop or laptop. VirtualBox does not run on the SPARC platform.
VirtualBox runs on everything that I’ve ever tried it on, so the hardware requirements are easily met. The only problem I’ve run into is loading VirtualBox on another Virtual machine. The website has good documentation and enough people use this product, so that any problem you encounter, is probably addressed there.
Overview: There are two methods of installing Solaris as a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox. 1) Install Solaris 10 or 11 from scratch using the Solaris media (allows customization) This method is the same as installing Solaris on a x86 server. 2) Install Solaris 10 or 11 using a prebuilt appliance or virtual machine (easiest) This method is easiest for first time users, but does not allow customization. I describe both methods in this post. VirtualBox is a free program and can be downloaded from VirtualBox can be installed on Windows, OS X, Linux and a Solaris (x86) host. On the above website, click on the link for your host operating system, download and install Oracle VirtualBox using all of the defaults.
Before following the steps below, download and install VirtualBox onto a desktop or laptop. Option 1 – Installing using the Solaris Media After installing Virtual Box on your PC, download the Full DVD (ISO image) – Oracle Solaris 10 (x86) from Oracle (approx 2.1 GB download) Download the Full DVD ISO Image for x86 (not SPARC). Download Solaris 11 from this URL: You’ll see several downloads listed, for beginners, I recommend the “Oracle Solaris Live Media for x86.” Note: You will be using the x86 version of Solaris, not the SPARC version, so make sure you download the correct installation media. If prompted for a login and password, signup for a free Oracle account. After downloading the installation media, Install and Start VirtualBox on your PC by clicking on the icon: 2. Click on the New icon (Hilighted): The Welcome screen will appear. Click on Next and the Create New Virtual Machine window will be displayed.
Click on Next. Enter a name for your Solaris Virtual Machine, select the OS type and version (version does not need to be exact). Click on Next. Select the amount of RAM.
Keep in mind, Windows (the host system) will be using some of the RAM too. Make sure you leave at least 1GB for the Windows host. Click on Next. Create a New Hard disk. I recommend 16GB which is the default. Click on Next.
The Virtual creation wizard screen is displayed, use the default (VDI) and click on Next. 8. The Virtual Disk Storage details screen is displayed. Use the default, Dynamically Allocated. This will save disk space on your host system. The Virtual disk location and size screen will be displayed.
You can select where the Virtual Machine and its disks will be created. Choose a location that has 3-4GB of free space.
The system will create a folder named “Virtual Box VMs.” All of your virtual machines and disks will be stored here. Click Next when ready to move onto the next screen. A summary screen is displayed.
Review it and click on Create. The new machine will now be listed in your VirtualBox Manager: 11. Highlight the machine and select Settings: The Settings screen will be displayed as follows: 12. Click on Storage, then click on the DVD. The DVD will be labeled “Empty.” Then click on the Attributes section (see highlight) and select the location of the Solaris Full DVD ISO image that you downloaded earlier. Then select OK. The VirtualBox manager window will be displayed.
The Storage section (see highlight) should show the CD/DVD using the ISO image selected in the previous step. 13. Click on START and the installation will begin. The following window will begin the Solaris Installation program: When the installation is complete, the Virtual Machine will still have the DVD mounted to the ISO image and will boot to it and restart the installation process.
When this happens, you’ll see the Black GRUB menu displayed again as follows: 14. Click on Devices, then CD/DVD devices, then “Remove Disk from Virtual Drive.” This will unmount the DVD ISO image from the CD/DVD. Click on Machine, then RESET to restart from the Virtual Machine’s boot disk. You’ll know that Solaris is installed and booting from the boot disk when it boots to the Blue GRUB menu as shown: Option 2- Installing from an appliance After downloading and installing Virtual Box on your PC, download the Solaris 11 appliance image from Oracle (approx 1.5GB download) A list of prebuilt Solaris 11 virtual machines (appliances) are available here: Scroll down and select Oracle Solaris 11 VM for Oracle VM VirtualBox Solaris 10 virtual machines are located at this URL: Download and uncompress the files and remember where you put them for the next step. Install and Start VirtualBox on your PC by clicking on the icon: 2. Click on FILE from the top toolbar, then IMPORT APPLIANCE from the pulldown menu and the following screen will open: 3.
Select the location of the unzipped files (Appliance Image) that you downloaded and unzipped earlier: 4. Click OPEN 5. The Appliance Settings window will open. On this screen, you can modify the appliance settings before importing (or leave everything as is).
You could change the amount of RAM allocated to the virtual machine or you could modify the location of the Virtual Disk Image. Click on IMPORT when finished. Click FINISH The Virtual Machine will appear in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window.
Highlight the machine and click on Start to start the machine up. Install VirtualBox Additions Package I recommend that you install the VirtualBox Additions package in the Solaris virtual machine.
This makes the mouse and graphics a little easier to work with. It also allows you to cut/paste from the virtual machine and also resize the VM window. Login to the Solaris VM 2. Click on Devices from the top toolbar and select Install Guest Additions from the pulldown menu.
Note: If you are unable to get the mouse to move outside of the VM window, press the Right Control key on your keyboard to free up the mouse. A window will open on the Solaris desktop. Double click on the runasroot.sh icon and click on the RUN button when the popup window opens: 4.
Click on autorun.sh icon and click on the RUN button when the popup window opens. A window will open on the Solaris Desktop labelled, “ Installing VirtualBox Additions.” 5. Press ENTER as prompted. Reboot the VirtualMachine and the installation is complete. Create a Snapshot of the VM Before using the virtual machine to practice, I recommend creating a Snapshot of the Solaris VM. Then, if you really mess up the Solaris system, you simply restore the VM snapshot and try again.
To create the snapshot, follow these staps: 1. Shutdown Solaris by typing init 5 at the command prompt in a terminal window: 2. When the machine is powered down (be patient and give it time to shutdown and power off), click on the Snapshots icon in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window: 3.When the snapshot window opens, click on the Camera icon: 4. You’ll be prompted for a name, enter a name and description.
I like to add a description for each snapshot so that I know when each was taken. Snapshots can be taken at any point in time. Use them as you attempt new things with Solaris. Have fun and good luck.
As always, feel free to post questions or comments for others to learn from. Bill Posted in. This procedure describes how to recover the root file system on an x86-based Solaris 10 system from a ufsdump recovery tape (or file). Replace and partition the disk if it has failed. Because the system cannot be booted from the boot disk, boot from the DVD or CD-ROM.
The system begins its boot process from the Solaris miniroot on DVD (or CD-ROM). The following list of boot choices is displayed:. Solaris Interactive (default). Custom JumpStart. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop Session). Solaris Interactive Text (Console Session).
Apply driver updates. Single user shell Enter the number of your choice: 3. Select boot choice 6, the single user shell. If an instance of Solaris is found on the disk, the system asks if you want to mount it on /a.
Answer n to avoid mounting an existing root file system. Re-create the failed file system by issuing the newfs command: # newfs /dev/rdsk/ Where: is the name of the raw disk partition that contains the corrupted root file system. Check the new file system by using fsck: # fsck /dev/rdsk/ 6. Mount the new file system on a temporary mount point: # mount /dev/dsk/ /mnt 7. Change to the /mnt directory: # cd /mnt 8. If using a tape, write-protect the tapes so that you don’t accidentally overwrite them.
Load the tape and issue the following command: # ufsrestore rf /dev/rmt/0 The entire contents of the tape are restored to the file system. All permissions, ownerships, and dates remain as they were when the last incremental tape was created. Verify that the file system is restored: # ls 11.
Remove the restoresymtable file that is created and used by ufsrestore to checkpoint the restoration: # rm restoresymtable 12. Install the GRUB stage1 and stage2 programs on the Solaris partition. The installgrub command installs the GRUB stage1 program in sector 0 and the GRUB stage2 program beginning at sector 50. These sectors are within the reserved first cylinder f the partition. Depending on the nature of the damage, they may not require reinstallation.
To install the stage1 and stage2 programs found in the miniroot from the Solaris DVD (or CDROM), use the following command: # /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/ 13. Change to the root (/) directory: # cd / 14.
Unmount the newly created file system: # umount /mnt 15. Check the new file system with fsck: # fsck /dev/rdsk/ The restored file system is checked for consistency. Perform a full backup of the file system: # ufsdump ouf /dev/rmt/0 dev/rdsk/ Note: You should always create a new backup of the newly created file system.
Ufsrestore re-positions the files and changes the inode allocation. If you have separate filesystems for /usr, /var, or /opt- repeat the steps (except for step 12) for each of the filesystems.
Reboot the system, but first eject the DVD (or CD-ROM) to prevent the system from booting to it again: # init 6 Posted in, Tagged,.
Brian's opinion first, who can ever argue when something is free? I really like the fact that sun made a dvd version available as well. With the wide availability of dvd drives it's much easier to put the operating system on a single dvd than having to burn and carry around multiple cds to install the operating system. Of course, you do need access to a dvd burner.
Sun is making a great move by making solaris 10 open source. The money is in the support, which is why companies that distribute linux make money.
It's no surprise that below the download options for solaris 10 there is a link. A basic service plan starts at us$120 and is what you need if you want solaris 10 updates. That's not a bad deal when you figure that's for up to 8 physical processors. Best of all, multi-core processors are still counted as a single processor. Does it support nvidia 6800 gts? What dvd burners are supported etc does not make sense to download if it wont run.
– by link please hw support? (9:48am est wed feb 02 2005) who needs hardware support, you have the magic source code. With enough time and effort, you.may. be able to get it to work. It's not like it's actually costing you anything.
– by jqp link please? (9:54am est wed feb 02 2005) are you kidding?
If you can't find that hardware compatibility lists what are you doing messing around with the os? Have you tried looking for it? – by cd it will cost me my precious time (9:55am est wed feb 02 2005) you twit – by grown up sun/solaris (9:56am est wed feb 02 2005) these are still the fastest most reliable and most secure computers i have ever had. – by thank you! Sun has it right (10:00am est wed feb 02 2005) this is the way to do “open source”. One large overseer maintains the product, keeps it running properly, while anyone and everyone is free to change it, and perhaps submit changes to sun, who we trust will properly review the submitted code and ensure that the os is still secure.
If it runs maya, and 3ds max i might consider putting on a comp at some point. – by neat stuff a lot of free power (10:30am est wed feb 02 2005) no one should underestimate the power of the solaris oe either. And that makes it even more amazing that they are offering it for free download. Solaris has capabilities that most other os's can only dream of. – by the scavenger re: sun has it right (12:04pm est wed feb 02 2005) it's too early to tell. Whether they have it “right” or not will depend to a large extent on the contributions made by others. If noone contributes, all they've succeeded in doing is exposing any features that made solaris unique and might have given it a marketplace advantage.
In any case, look for these things to start showing up in linux real soon. Side note to “grown up”: i guess the sarcasm didn't come through? – by jqp oh man i'm jealous (12:08pm est wed feb 02 2005) if i get my approval for a new sun blade server i'm gonna have to try this. I need it to run solaris 9 but, but, but oh man i must try 10. That's it, i'll just have to get the x86 version for now and save the negotiating for later. – by spook ha (12:16pm est wed feb 02 2005) hehehehe still trying to install solaris 8. Shit, have 56k modem.
Gonna order the thing. – by bla ho-hum (12:25pm est wed feb 02 2005) i'm a big os geek, like most readers here probably are. I've installed countless linux distributions every flavor of windows and beos my osx box is just kick ass. But i find it very hard to get excited about solaris maybe it's just because of their ever-annoying scott mcnealy, or maybe it's due to all the fud they've spread over the years, but i really doubt that this will ever be downloaded by myself, let alone installed.
I'm sure that this is going to sound like any other mac user raving uncontrollably, but since i've gotten my (dual 2ghz) osx box, i find myself spending less and less time checking out the latest linux developments, let alone the latest windows updates (even though i still have to work on windows a lot, it's via remote desktop on osx). Osx truly is what i've been looking for all along, i feel. Someone else put it best: “osx allows me to tinker when i want to tinker.
But when i need to get work done, it just works, with no tinkering required.” it wasn't until i really started spending a lot of time in osx that i realized just how much of my time had been spent tinkering with linux and windows, just to get them to work the way i wanted them to. Osx just does it. Ok now all the kids who can't afford macs can start with their mac bashing (overpriced, underpowered, blah blah blah). – by a mac convert re: a mac convert (12:41pm est wed feb 02 2005) no, we won't say a word about the macs.
Just wondering. – by woz raskin how rude convert (12:47pm est wed feb 02 2005) “ok now all the kids who can't afford macs can start with their mac bashing (overpriced, underpowered, blah blah blah)” the nerve, going to a solaris article and posting about frickin mac osx, then ending your post with a pre-emptive personal attack against the poeple who prefer another os like say solaris. Rude, unseemly and distasteful. – by cynical bastard mac convert (1:40pm est wed feb 02 2005) what windows tinkering can you possibly need to get work done?
Don't be a flame baiter.or a pillow biter either. – by poopchute a mac convert (1:51pm est wed feb 02 2005) i pity you. Solaris 10 has a lot of great features that the mac os may never have. Zfs is a feature that is cool enough for me to want to load it. Now all the file management can be done from the os and if it works the way they say it will, i can stop paying thousands to veritas.
Here is what my sun rep sent me: “solaris 10 is now officially a production release. Download it today and see how solaris can make a difference for you. If you need a fast, reliable, and secure os to run your datacenter, your web farm, and your business critical systems — then solaris 10 is for you. If you are looking to lower your overall cost of ownership, minimize security risk, and get more from the hardware assets you have — then try solaris 10 today.
It will take forever to get it from their one west coast server. – by mrreload rax (4:43pm est wed feb 02 2005) what requirements are you going to use?
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I've been looking at the hcl. $220 seem like a lot of money for it's own test server. Have you looked at using vpc?
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I'm thinking of a w2k server we run a test w2k3 server in vpc. – by tech looks like a nice os (4:36am est thu feb 03 2005) this is a couple of screenshots of solaris 10 and the java desktop.
Looks simple and nice. Wonder how well it runs. – by caliber fx heh (10:09am est thu feb 03 2005) i first got there and saw the grey screen with prompt and was like, yep, thats pretty damn simple. Seriously though, the os is nice looking, wonder if that java desktop is really worth a damn though. – by wondering about java cool (11:02pm est fri feb 04 2005) i got this triple booting on my laptop with windows and linux and it runs pretty nice. I like the java desktop.
Just waiting for my ultra 60 from anysystem.com and i can have my sparc solaris box. I hope the full version is out soon so i can test out the native linux app support on my x86. – by techy78 i want solaries 10 (1:39am est sun feb 06 2005) very argent needed – by mic.lincoln zfs (4:31am est wed feb 09 2005) anyone found it on solaris 10?
– by predrag jds and sol10 (6:52am est sat feb 19 2005) the java desktop system is nothing special, just suse desktop system rehashed, better off with suse9.2 imho for enterprise desktop. But at least sun are trying to get a desktop os with the linux tag out there. Havnt tried solaris 10 yet, am getting my ultra60 in a couple of days but man it looks usefull. Project janus on x86 platforms looks very handy indeed. Just need to see if it will keep me from installing freebsd on my sun4u:) – by toms sol 10 is greaaaat!!! (5:52am est sat mar 12 2005) solaris 10 is damn great that's all what i can say!!! – by mina damm!!!
(6:05am est fri mar 18 2005) i downloaded all the 4 iso's and they worked fine except the third. I downloaded the third iso twice using dap 7.2 but when i try to open it the winzip say it is damaged.
I'm trying now to download it using sun download manager is there any one managed to download it? – by mon open source and cheap sun hardware (11:42am est wed may 04 2005) with solaris now open source, everyone can really experience the beauty of a mature unix system.
Combine that with cheap sun hardware in the secondary market, and anyone can set up a killer machine. I buy most of my equipement from xerxes. Check them out at – by noodleboy cc (9:10pm est thu apr 13 2006) – by cc.