Solaris 11 USB Install

Solaris 11.4 install with USB key.

Find USB disk path to boot.

{0} ok show-disks

a) /reboot-memory@0

b) /pci@3c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@7/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/disk

c) /pci@3c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@7/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0/disk

d) /pci@3c0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk

e) /pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/disk

f) /pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0/disk

g) /pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk

h) /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/usb@0/hub@8/storage@1/disk

i) /iscsi-hba/disk

q) NO SELECTION

Enter Selection, q to quit:

Select the correct path

Enter Selection, q to quit: h

/pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/usb@0/hub@8/storage@1/disk has been selected.

Type ^Y ( Control-Y ) to insert it in the command line.

e.g. ok nvalias mydev ^Y

for creating devalias mydev for /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/usb@0/hub@8/storage@1/disk

{0} ok

{0} ok boot /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/usb@0/hub@8/storage@1/disk

Boot device: /pci@340/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/usb@0/hub@8/storage@1/disk File and args:

USB stick will boot………

SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.4.0.15.0 64-bit

Remounting root read/write

Probing for device nodes ...

Preparing image for use

Done mounting image

USB keyboard

Arabic 15. Korean
Belgian 16. Latin-American
Brazilian 17. Norwegian
Canadian-Bilingual 18. Portuguese
Canadian-French 19. Russian
Danish 20. Spanish
Dutch 21. Swedish
Dvorak 22. Swiss-French
Finnish 23. Swiss-German
French 24. Traditional-Chinese
German 25. TurkishQ
Italian 26. UK-English
Japanese-type6 27. US-English
Japanese

To select the keyboard layout, enter a number [default 27]:

Select the correct keyboard

To select the keyboard layout, enter a number [default 27]:26

Chinese - Simplified
Chinese - Traditional
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese - Brazil
Spanish

To select the language you wish to use, enter a number [default is 3]: 3

Welcome to the Oracle Solaris installation menu

1 Install Oracle Solaris

2 Install Additional Drivers

3 Shell

4 Terminal type (currently xterm)

5 Reboot

Please enter a number [1]:1

A install menu will appear use “esc” “2” to navigate the menu

Local disks

Select HDD0

Use entire disk

System name ….Solaris1 (Solaris2 Solars3 etc)

Net0

Static

Add IP address (whatever – make up?)

DNS – no (unless asked for?)

None

Europe

Britain UK

Europe London

English

United States (en_US.ISO8859-1) – doesn’t matter will be changed later

Set date & time

Keybrd

Set “root” password “newroot1”

Remove email and continue

Review the settings below before installing. Go back (F3) to make changes.

Software: Oracle Solaris 11.4 SPARC

Root Pool Disk: 372.6GB scsi

|Computer name: solaris1

Network:

Static Configuration: net0/v4

IP Address: 192.200.8.10/24

Router: 192.200.8.250

Name service: None

Time Zone: Europe/London

Locale:

Default Language: English

|Language Support: English (United States, ISO8859-1)

Keyboard: UK-English

“esc” “2” to install Solaris

This takes approximately 30 mins

Once complete “esc” “8”

(if menu appears “5” to reboot)

SPARC T5-2, No Keyboard

OpenBoot 4.38.17, 255.0000 GB memory available, Serial #108412992.

Ethernet address 0:10:e0:76:40:40, Host ID: 86764040.

Boot device: /pci@300/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@w55cd2e404c1e387b,0:a File and args:

SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.4.0.15.0 64-bit

Log in to Solaris “root” and password “newroot1”

root@solaris1:~# echo $TERM

xterm

root@solaris1:~# TERM=vt100;export TERM

root@solaris1:~# echo $TERM

vt100

remove USB from Solaris

umount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2

insert USB SSD and you will see it

root@solaris1:/# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on

rpool/ROOT/solaris 366G 2.7G 231G 2% /

rpool/ROOT/solaris/var

366G 358M 231G 1% /var

/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices

/dev 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev

ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract

proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc

mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab

swap 242G 11M 242G 1% /system/volatile

swap 242G 1.0M 242G 1% /tmp

objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object

sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab

fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd

rpool/VARSHARE 366G 3.8M 231G 1% /var/share

rpool/VARSHARE/tmp 366G 144K 231G 1% /var/tmp

rpool/VARSHARE/kvol 366G 144K 231G 1% /var/share/kvol

rpool/VARSHARE/zones 366G 144K 231G 1% /system/zones

rpool/export 366G 152K 231G 1% /export

rpool/export/home 366G 144K 231G 1% /export/home

rpool 366G 212K 231G 1% /rpool

rpool/VARSHARE/pkg 366G 152K 231G 1% /var/share/pkg

rpool/VARSHARE/pkg/repositories

366G 144K 231G 1% /var/share/pkg/repositories

rpool/VARSHARE/sstore

366G 3.7M 231G 1% /var/share/sstore/repo

/dev/dsk/c9t0d0s2 440G 17G 419G 4% /media/Generic

root@solaris1:/# cd media

root@solaris1:/media# ls

Generic

root@solaris1:/media# cd *

root@solaris1:/media/Generic# ls

lost+found SRU_2024

root@solaris1:/media/Generic#

copy the SRU to /

root@solaris1:/media/Generic# cp -r SRU_2024 /

remove the USB disk

umount /dev/dsk/c9t0d0s2

add a publisher

pkg set-publisher -P -g /SRU_2024 solaris

root@solaris1:/# pkg publisher

PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION

solaris origin online F file:///SRU_2024/

solaris origin online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

pkg update --accept

extracts………..

Packages to remove: 124

Packages to install: 195

Packages to update: 495

Packages to change: 1

Mediators to change: 8

Create boot environment: Yes

Create backup boot environment: No

DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED

Completed 815/815 67957/67957 1019/1019 --

PHASE ITEMS

Removing old actions 37267/37267

Installing new actions 55413/55413

Updating modified actions 44143/44143

Updating package state database Done

Updating package cache 619/619

Updating image state Done

Creating fast lookup database Done

Updating package cache 1/1

A clone of solaris exists and has been updated and activated.

On the next boot the Boot Environment be://rpool/solaris-1 will be

mounted on '/'. Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.

Updating package cache 1/1

root@solaris1:/# reboot

set “locale”

pkg change-facet 'facet.locale.en_GB=True' (required after SRU update!) (will now show with “pkg facet”)

Packages to change: 9

Variants/Facets to change: 1

Create boot environment: No

Create backup boot environment: Yes

DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SPEED

Completed 9/9 11/11 0.2/0.2 --

PHASE ITEMS

Installing new actions 50/50

Updating package state database Done

Updating package cache 0/0

Updating image state Done

Creating fast lookup database Done

Updating package cache 1/1

root@solaris1:~#

root@solaris1:~# pkg facet

FACET VALUE SRC

locale.* False local

locale.de True local

locale.de_DE True local

locale.en True local

locale.en_GB True local

locale.en_US True local

locale.es True local

locale.es_ES True local

locale.fr True local

locale.fr_FR True local

locale.it True local

locale.it_IT True local

locale.ja True local

locale.ja_* True local

locale.ko True local

locale.ko_* True local

locale.pt True local

locale.pt_BR True local

locale.zh True local

locale.zh_CN True local

locale.zh_TW True local

root@solaris1:~#

svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init setprop environment/LANG = astring: en_GB.ISO8859-1

svccfg -s system/environment:init setprop environment/LANG = astring: en_GB.ISO8859-1

svcadm refresh system/environment:init

reboot the server

root@solaris1:~# locale

LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1

LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

LC_ALL=

root@solaris1:~#

may see rpool error

root@solaris1:~# zpool status

pool: rpool

id: 9715258797179796146

state: ONLINE

status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format. The pool can

still be used, but some features are unavailable.

action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the

pool will no longer be accessible on older software versions.

scan: none requested

config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM

rpool ONLINE 0 0 0

c0t55CD2E404C1E387Bd0 ONLINE 0 0 0

root@solaris1:~# beadm list -o name,pool_version,flags

BE Name Pool Version Flags

solaris 44 -

solaris-1 51 NR

solaris-1-backup-1 51 -

root@solaris1:~# beadm list

BE Name Flags Mountpoint Space Policy Created

solaris - - 427.66M static 2024-05-02 11:18

solaris-1 NR / 24.91G static 2024-05-02 12:39

solaris-1-backup-1 - - 294.67M static 2024-05-02 12:54

beadm destroy solaris (older version to remove)

Then do the zpool upgrade…

zpool upgrade rpool

mirror os disk

root@solaris1:~# format -e

Searching for disks...done

c0t55CD2E404C250E45d0: configured with capacity of 372.61GB

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:

c0t55CD2E404C1E387Bd0 <ATA-ITVSC2BA3SUN400G-5DV1-372.61GB>

/scsi_vhci/disk@g55cd2e404c1e387b

/dev/chassis/SYS/SASBP/HDD0/disk

c0t55CD2E404C250E45d0 <ATA-ITVSC2BA3SUN400G-5DV1-372.61GB>

/scsi_vhci/disk@g55cd2e404c250e45

/dev/chassis/SYS/SASBP/HDD4/disk

Specify disk (enter its number):

root@solaris1:~# zpool status

pool: rpool

id: 9715258797179796146

state: ONLINE

scan: none requested

config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM

rpool ONLINE 0 0 0

c0t55CD2E404C1E387Bd0 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

root@solaris1:~# zpool attach -f rpool c0t55CD2E404C1E387Bd0 c0t55CD2E404C250E45d0

Make sure to wait until resilver is done before rebooting.

Clear all faults…

svcadm disable -s svc:/system/fmd:default

cd /var/fm/fmd

find /var/fm/fmd -type f -exec ls {} \;

find /var/fm/fmd -type f -exec rm {} \;

svcadm enable svc:/system/fmd:default

create raidz filesystem on additional disks.

zpool create MYPOOL raidz c4t0d0 c5t0d0 etc etc

To remove just one Solaris publisher use the following….for example

pkg set-publisher -G / SRU_2024 solaris

pkg set-publisher -P -g /SRU_2024 solaris

$ pkg publisher

PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION

solaris origin online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

isvpub (non-sticky) origin online F file:///var/share/pkgrepos/isvrepo/

devtool (disabled) origin online F http://pkg.example1.com/

pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ solaris