Andrew:
Andrew Gaylard wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:21 PM, mary ding <mary.d...@sun.com> wrote:
Andrew:
Andrew Gaylard wrote:
That raises a question: could I download the DVD of the latest SXCE,
export it via NFS, and use the installer from the SXCE-98 series to
install it?
You should not use SXCE-98 to install later builds, it is not supported.
You should download the latest SXCE DVD and use the installer from there
directly.
OK, but... I don't have a DVD drive .
If you have a net install server, then you can download the iso and
create a net install image from there.
i.e.
# cp dvd.iso /export/home
# cd /export/home
# lofiadm -a `pwd`/dvd.iso
# mkdir /tmp/mnt
# lofiadm -a `pwd`/solarisdvd.miniroot
/dev/lofi/1
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /tmp/mnt
#cd /tmp/mnt/So*/To*
# ./setup_install_server <path of install image>
Make sure that it is shared with ro,anon=0 access.
Another question: it appears that SXCE-98 doesn't offer ZFS-root.
Certainly the installer just went with UFS without asking. If I want
to give this a spin, which build has it?
ZFS-root option is only available if you do text install.
ok boot net - text
Thanks for this -- I just found it the ZFS docs. My box is now happily
re-installing.
Interestingly, although the initial installation is done in "text mode"
(actually the curses-based installer runs inside a dtterm under X),
after the reboot, the installation process resumes as the graphical
version. I don't know if this is normal behaviour, but it did at least
work for me. If I'd genuinely *needed* the text installer to resume
(e.g. over a serial link), I'm not sure if it would have been OK.
It is normal and it is working as expected.
Anyway, thanks for the input, Mary.
Andrew
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