Solaris 8 Setup - Release 04/01
[This procedure was last updated March 2, 2002]

This document was written specifically for the beginner-to-novice
computer user who wants to install the Solaris 8 (Sun 2.8 O/S) operating
system upon a generic Intel Architecture motherboard and make it
successfully run, perhaps upon a small Windows-based network. It is
assumed you purchased the Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition Media. (For
about $80, it will save you lots of lost time and aggravation.)

If you don�t have the Solaris 8 System Administrator Certification
Training Guide, I urge you to get  one. It makes installing and managing
your drives a lot easier. It�s only $55 or so at Barnes and Noble, and
can save you a lot of time and posting of  questions that will draw a
lot of  �RTFM!� responses.

This document borrowed some text from the website owned by Keith
Parkansky, appropriately titled,
http://www.execpc.com/~keithp/bdlogsol.htm. It is a fine website and
contains far more information that what is included here. I recommend
you visit his site for more ideas how Solaris can be configured.

>From here on, it is assumed that the motherboard in your computer has a
Pentium III processor in it, and all other Hardware Compatibility List
requirements are met or exceeded. My machine has 512 MB of memory and
three 20 GB hard drives. Some file parameters are set as a function of
these numbers. This document guides a user to bring up an
unsophisticated server. Networking features (if desired) should be
turned on during operating system installation. Later installation seems
to be a big hassle.

A variety of instructional documents were modified to specifically
address loading Solaris 8 onto a machine with a non-proprietary
motherboard and an Intel Pentium III processor. Solaris x86 is very
picky when it comes to hardware. It may not work on hardware that is not
listed in the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List). My Pentium system's
generic motherboard was compatible, and the BIOS found the three 20 GB
Maxtor hard drives I had connected to the IDE channels #1 and #2 (on the
motherboard). Solaris did recognize the ISO-9660 compliant
(self-booting) CD-ROM drive, which was connected to the IDE channel #2 (
set as master ) on the motherboard.

View the HCL at:  soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/8/1000/BOOK.htm

For any reason, if a C:\ drive boot sector cannot be placed on the
drive, consider the following as emergency repair procedures:  Go to
another x86 machine or a friend�s x86 machine with the questionable
drive in hand and make it a slave drive on the other machine. Use
whatever means necessary (such as Partition Magic 6.0 or as a second
drive to Windows NT 4.0; I use a combination of both) to reformat the
drive in question to a single 2,000MB partition of FAT format, and the
remainder of all the drive(s)as NTFS. You want to see the drive in its
full capacity.  (An observation: installing Solaris 8 operating system
code onto a hard drive fully partitioned and formatted loads in only
about 40 minutes. If placing a new install onto a drive that has
residual Solaris 8 files that were previously installed upon it, the
load takes about 110 minutes by actual timing.) Put the drive back where
it belongs.

Though your setup will differ, my system setup is as follows:
-  Pentium III  866 MHz CPU
-  512 meg of RAM  (536,870,912 bytes)
-  3 each 20 GB Maxtor 5400 rpm hard-drive  (19.47 GB each after
formatting)
-  A 3-button mouse (2-button works just as well)
-  52x ATAPI self-booting CD-ROM drive
-  3COM 905C-TX-M or 905B10/100 Mbps Autosensing (3C509B- TPC 10baseT
Ethernet
     card also works.  The 905 NICs default to100 Mbps speeds out of the
box. )
- The parallel port will not work. A few printers will work on the
serial ports.
- The audio port will not work unless you can find the proper drivers.

The Solaris x86 media package contains a:
� �Configuration Assistant� boot floppy
� an �Installation� CD
� two �Software� (OS) CDs

Don't even take the boot floppy nor the Installation CD out of the
package. Rather, place the first Software CD #1 of 2 into the tray
before rebooting your machine. The installation documentation says to
boot off of the floppy. However, there are several well-known problems
with using either the floppy or Installation CD. You are better off
having a system with a BIOS that will allow you to boot off of a CD-ROM
(already in place), and using it to boot off of �Software #1� CD. (Note
that you may have to change your BIOS settings to boot off the CD-ROM
drive before booting off the hard-drive.)

Here are the steps to install Solaris for x86:

1. The first series of screens in the install are character-based. As
indicated, just use the F2 key to proceed through them. One common
mistake made during this process is when a screen appears asking you to:

�Select one of the identified devices to boot the Solaris kernel�
What it is really asking you is from what device are you going to boot
the kernel from during the installation. Since you are installing the OS
from the CD, you'll want to select your CD-ROM drive (by highlighting it
and pressing the space bar) in response to this prompt.

2. You will then be prompted to select the type of installation. Select
number 1 - Solaris Interactive.

3. When prompted to select a language, select 0 - English.

4. However, when prompted to select a locale, don't select 0 - English.
Rather, press Enter to go down the list and select 50 - U.S.A. (Ariel
screen font; 51 � U.S.A is Times New Roman font). NOTE: This changes
from one release to the next release, so study the list carefully.

5. At this point kdmconfig is run to detect hardware to set up the GUI.
After a few more F2s the �Current Window System Configuration� screen
will list the video, keyboard, and mouse settings, including the model
of your monitor next to �Monitor Type:�. I've had bad luck with
brand-specific monitor settings. Do the following:

� Select �Change Video Device/Monitor� and press F2
� Press F2  to change the video adapter device to your make and model:
Mine is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (2 MB of memory). It was manufactured
in 1996; I found it in a second-hand computer parts and salvage store.
It works great!
� Change �Monitor Types� to Plug and Play Mfreq 16-inch.
� Set resolution to your preference. (I use a resolution of
800x600x16777216 colors; anything higher produces images too small for
me)
6. Press F2 again at a couple of more screens. Click on YES if you see
16 colored ovals of different colors.  If you do not see them, your
video adapter is unsatisfactory for Solaris GUI screens. Look for and
find and a Solaris Hardware Compatibility List to determine what video
adapters are suitable; then go out and get it. (Older ones are less
expensive and work great!) When the screen is satisfactory, you may need
to size and center the monitor image at this point.

7. The GUI will start and the �Solaris Install Console� window will
appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. You don't need to do
anything with this window. It's just there so you can monitor what's
going on. You'll be presented with a series of windows asking for
information and confirmation clicks. Go ahead and press them to move
ahead.

8. Select �YES� when you are prompted about networking.  Use DHCP =
�NO�.  Host Name is the what you want to call your machine, such as
�Solaris�, or �Server2�, or something cute. Setting this up now has
proven to be a lot smarter than setting up later. Questions are pretty
simple.  The network card should be discovered by the software once a
hostname is given.

9. Give the IP address as one unique to your setup, such as
200.200.200.203.  Part of a Subnet = �YES�.  Netmask is also unique,
such as 255.255.255.0. No other machine on this network should have the
same host address. If you don�t have a network interface card (NIC), I
endorse the 3COM 905-series. They�re 10 Mbps/100 Mbps auto speed
switchable, and Solaris recognizes them as a plug-n-play item. (They
default to100 Mpbs speeds right out of the box and if using compatible
network hardware.) When asked it you want IPv6, click �NO�. When asked
about Kerberos security, click �NO�.

10. If you are going to network your machine with another machine, do so
using one of two means: For one machine directly to another machine, you
must use a �crossover cable�. These are not common �straight-through�
cables; a straight-through cable will not work here.  If you use a hub
(expensive or the Linksys $50 model, which I have), you need common
straight-through cables.

11. When asked about a name service, select �None�.   I tried other
options, but Solaris expects to be connected to a network server by this
time. If you don't have the server, "None" is the only way to move
beyond this point.

12. Specify time zone by: Geographic region.  Select Regions of United
States and Time zones for your own location. Set the Date and Time as
you see fit.

13. Wait a long time for the Solaris Interactive Installations window to
appear. Press Continue.

14. When the Select Geographic Regions window appears, press Continue to
accept the default. If you live outside the United States, choose your
region accordingly.

15. When the �Select Software� window appears, select Entire
Distribution plus OEM support. Then press Continue.

16. At the Select Disks window, highlight the first disk on the
Available Disks column and press the right-pointing arrow to move the
disk to the Selected Disks column. At the Create Solaris fdisk Partition
screen, press �Use entire disk for Solaris and boot partitions�. Press
OK twice if these options are agreeable to you. Repeat if you have
multiple disks installed. For the second disk and third disk and so on,
you must manually press �Use entire disk for Solaris partition� and then
press OK to continue. (Solaris makes you manually make this important
decision!)  (Note the Solaris root slice is c0d0s0. Become familiar with
this nomenclature as time goes by; this is fundamental stuff if you
later install multiple drives.)

17. Before proceeding, you have the opportunity to press the Select Boot
Disk button. Press it and read the following text. Proceed if you agree
with it or change your options. Press Continue.

18. At the Automatically Layout File Systems? window, I prefer to
automatically layout my file systems. It is not difficult, and I don�t
have need for the manual layout partition scheme. Press the Auto Layout
button. (Here, if you press the Manual Layout button, you can name your
partitions whatever you want. If you are a beginner, avoid this until
you get some experience, then do the Manual Layout challenge. )

19.  At the next window, check all boxes for the Create option. Note
that root and swap are already chosen. I prefer to choose all file
system names. Press Continue.

20.  At the File System and Disk Layout window, press Customize.

21. A list of the �slices� ( a Solaris term) will be displayed along
with their sizes. On my system, with 20 GB drives, the Drive and Size
columns below were displayed with the approximate sizes given in Mbytes.
�Sizing� the slice size is flexible. Selection of slice sizes are �best
guess� and from experience. (Several references used for this document
recommend using the Solaris defaults. They say to do otherwise is asking
for trouble; I disagree)  These names and settings work for me, but will
change in future reinstallations, depending upon which slices need
enlarging or reducing:

 Disk c0d0    Size    Disk c0d1   Size     Disk c1d1     Size
/ (root) c0d0s0  500 c0d1s0  {blank}  c1d1s0  {blank}
/usr/openwin c0d0s1  600  c0d1s1  {blank}  c1d1s1  {blank}
overlap (backup) c0d0s2  19462  c0d1s2  19469 c1d1s2  19469
/var c0d0s3  2000  c0d1s3  {blank}  c1d1s3  {blank}
swap c0d0s4  600  c0d1s4  600 c1d1s4  600
/opt c0d0s5  6000  c0d1s5  {blank}  c1d1s5  {blank}
/usr c0d0s6  6000  c0d1s6  15110 c1d1s6  15110
/export/home c0d0s7  3755  c0d1s7  3754 c1d1s7  3754

I prefer to keep at least 2 MB �free� on each drive for both Free and OS
Overhead and look for warning messages.   Boot disk is c0d0. The CD-ROM
drive can be considered as c1d0.

22. Decrease the /export/home size down to about 3755 MB (my personal
preference).
You'll want to decrease the /export/home value before increasing the
others or you'll get an error saying there's not enough space on the
hard-drive for the new slice size. Also, you have to use your mouse
pointer to place the cursor. Using the arrow keys moves the focus to
adjacent fields.

By pressing an arrow or Tab key to go to the next field the �Allocated�
figure will be updated so you can see if you're using all the hard-drive
space that's available to you.
When you've got your values entered click on OK and then on Continue.
You can ignore the Unused Disk Space warning for the one or two
megabytes per disk you are not using. Press Continue again to proceed or
Customize� if you are having second thoughts.

23. When prompted by the Mount Remote File Systems window about �mount
software from a remote file server� click on the Continue button to
indicate �NO�. Press Begin Installation.

24. At the next Warning window, look for error messages; these are
serious and must be fixed.  Warnings of unused disk space should be
expected. A warning about changing default boot device should be read
and understood. Take appropriate action later if necessary. Press �OK�.

25. Click on either Reboot button ( read next paragraph! )and note the
message about ejecting the �Software CD #1�. For unattended operation,
choose Manual Reboot. Click OK.

26. Read this paragraph carefully!� The fdisking, directory creation,
UFS file system checking, and file copying from the CD to the hard-drive
will begin. If you chose Autoreboot, you'll need to keep an eye on it!
Allow about 30 minutes for complete loading for a blank three-drive
system. At the end of the installation of the �Software CD #1� you have
to remove the CD once the system starts to reboot. You must do this in
order to force the system to boot off of the hard-drive. Give the CD
about 6 seconds to eject, so do not delay pressing the eject button.
The tray does not retract back into the drive.  Listen for a BEEP  about
15 seconds before shutdown. The screen will blink once, go white, then
go black again. It is now you press the eject button.  (Continue reading
the next paragraph as well�)

27. If manually rebooting, you don�t have to baby-sit the machine; a
screen will appear with the �#� prompt and simply stop there. To
manually reboot, enter the word �reboot� at the status window �#� screen
prompt. After the screen syncs and goes black, press the CD-ROM eject
button.

28. When the system reboots (keep all default settings), you'll be
prompted to enter/re-enter a �root� (i.e. superuser) password of your
choice. (Make it easy to remember!)

29. Once the following GUI has started you'll be prompted to select the
CD-ROM drive as the source of the files and then to insert the �Software
CD #2� (Don�t skip this CD, as you might if you were loading Linux!).
The files will be copied off of it (there are no selections or
configurations involved). Be aware that your screen may go black during
the copying. This is just the GUI's default screensaver kicking in. A
mouse move will bring the screen back. Time: about 12 minutes. The blue
reboot screen has a 10-second timeout.

Once the installation finishes, reboot the system from the screen button
again when directed to do so. Let the machine come up by itself.  The
GUI login screen should appear. Once you log in as root for the first
time you are asked to choose your GUI (CDE or OpenWindows). This is a
matter of personal preference but most people choose CDE which is the
defaulted selection. You can always try OpenWindows by using the Options
button on the GUI login window (under �Session�).

You're in business !

>From here on, use the CDE �EXIT� button to save current screen
parameters.

NEVER simply hit the power button to shut down Solaris! Open files are
irreversibly corrupted!

Also, NEVER try to change the root�s shell from default Bourne (sh) to
anything else! This move will forever lock the root out of the system,
and users cannot open files that only root can open! The only remedy is
a complete operating system reinstall (another lesson learned the hard
way�)

To shutdown, open a host window and enter � #shutdown  -yi5 �.  Wait
about 90 seconds for the screen to display, "Press any key to
continue�"  Press the power button on your machine at this message.
To do an automatic-cycle cold restart, enter � #shutdown  -yi6 �.

If you installed multiple drives in your machine, the following  text
may be useful to you:

If you don�t have the Solaris 8 System Administrator Certification
Training Guide, I endorse you getting one. It makes installing and
managing your drives a lot easier. It�s only $55 or so at Barnes and
Noble, and can save you a lot of time and posting of  questions that
will draw a lot of  �RTFM!� responses.

Mounting Your Slices for UNIX Drives

These instructions were written with the intent of installing Oracle
upon the Solaris operating system, referencing another set of
instructions that I wrote. It has been determined that if the Oracle
user wants to follow those instructions, he must perform installation
activity in a certain order. The next few paragraphs were written to
prevent problems when Oracle is being installed. If you have no
intention of installing Oracle, you may skip the following text:


As ROOT:

The intent here is to create the /usr/oracle directory path. Close down
all those pop-up windows.

Set up Groups of users BEFORE setting up lists of users. There are no
spaces in the members list:

Right-click on the desktop, choose Applications, choose Application
Manager, choose System_Admin, choose Admintool.  Choose Browse, choose
Groups.

Using Edit in the toolbar:  Add Group Name: oinstall,  Group ID: 301,
Member list: root,sys,osdba,dba,osoper,sysoper,sysdba,oracle   (Note: no
spaces!)
Press the "OK" button.

Set up a list of users: Choose Browse. Choose Users. Choose Edit. Choose
Add.
User Name: oracle,
User ID: 1001 (can be anything above 1000, really),
Primary Group: 301,
Secondary Groups: { blank }
Comment: Allowed to install Oracle (or anything else descriptive),
Login Shell: Bourne,
Password: Cleared until first login,
Change Account Security parameters as you see fit (I left them blank).
Create Home Dir: Leave as default (pressed in)
Path: /usr/oracle. Press the "OK" button.
This correctly creates the /usr/oracle folders and associated
subfolders. You can now set up a non-oracle user, such as yourself at
this time as well. Use this method to set up folders for any user.

Choose File. Choose Exit.  Close back out to the wallpaper.

After loading the three drives and slice parameters during the Solaris 8
load described above, slices of the additional drives can now be
mounted.

Here, it is assumed the local drive c0d0 has slice 6 as a /user mount
point for future loading of Oracle 8.1.7. Three more subdirectories are
created using a host window:

# cd usr     ( if you do not want to install Oracle)
# mkdir oracle   ( if you do not want to install Oracle)
# cd usr/oracle   (all installations)
# mkdir u01   (all installations;  note that /usr, not /u01, is the
first mount point)
# mkdir u02   (all installations;  /u02 is a second mount point)
# mkdir u03   (all installations;  /u03 is a third mount point)

Here is how to utilize /usr/oracle/u02 and /usr/oracle/u03 as mount
points for disk slices c0d1s6, and c1d1s6, respectively.

First, create a new file system upon c0d1s6 using a host window:

# newfs /dev/rdsk/c0d1s6
newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c0d1s6: (y/n)? y
(Don�t expect any feedback with uppercase �Y�. Expect lots of activity
with lowercase �y�.)

Now, mount the drive slice to the mount point, /usr/oracle/u02:

# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d1s6 /usr/oracle/u02
(Don�t expect any feedback.)

Secondly, create a new file system upon c1d1s6 using a host window:

# newfs /dev/rdsk/c1d1s6
newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1d1s6: (y/n)? y
(Don�t expect any feedback with uppercase �Y�. Expect lots of activity
with lowercase �y�.)

Now, mount the drive slice to the mount point, /usr/oracle/u03:

# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c1d1s6 /usr/oracle/u03
(Don�t expect any feedback.)

Third, verify the mount commands succeeded:

# mount �p
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 - / ufs - no rw,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,suid
...        ...      ...      ...         ...
/dev/dsk/c0d1s6 - /usr/oracle/u02 ufs - no rw,intr,largefiles . . .
/dev/dsk/c1d1s6 - /usr/oracle/u03 ufs - no rw,intr,largefiles . . .
#

Open the  Home Folder > /etc >/vfstab file to add the new mount
operations so that the drives mount each time the machine is rebooted.
Add only the following lines as shown here to the bottom of the
/etc/vfstab table (mount point for c0d0s6 already exists as /usr; do not
edit this line):

/dev/dsk/c0d1s6  /dev/rdsk/c0d1s6  /usr/oracle/u02 ufs   2   yes   -
/dev/dsk/c1d1s6  /dev/rdsk/c1d1s6  /usr/oracle/u03 ufs   2   yes   -
#
Save changes made to the /etc/vfstab table and close all windows. Now is
a good time to reboot.

When you reboot your machine, the c0d1s6 and c1d1s6 partitions will
become extensions of partitions found on the boot (first) physical
drive. To verify success, right-click on the Desktop, left-click on
Applications, left-click on Application Manager, and double left-click
on Solaris Management Console.  Wait for about four minutes. (From here
on, it is fairly intuitive�) Open the Mounts icon and notice that /usr,
/usr/oracle/u02, and /usr/oracle/u03 partitions have been recognized and
mounted. Open the Disks icon to see how large the partitions are.

If you want to go with more complicated settings, you must place a file
system on each slice. (This is for users with a little more than minimal
experience.)  The easiest way to do so is by using the Solaris
Management Console (It�s hard to find, so right-click on the wallpaper
screen, choose Applications, choose Application Manager, and look for
the resulting window. Open it and give it at least four minutes to
discover all parameters and build its necessary files during its first
use after loading. (This is true for my 866 MHz machine; slower machines
require proportionally longer times to load.)

Go to This Computer (Solaris) > Storage > Disks. Provide the root
password. Expand the Disks directory tree. Single click on c0d1. One at
a time, highlight slices: usr, var, swap, unassigned, and usr, and go to
the top menu bar and select Action > Create File System. Click OK to
place a ufs file system upon each of the above mentioned slices.  Don�t
do those slices not mentioned here. Only after placing the ufs file
system upon slices can those slices be mounted to a directory path
(mount point).

To map (connect) a directory mount point to the appropriate drive slice,
in a host window, enter the following command:

#mount  -F  ufs  -O  /dev/dsk/cndnsn  /{directory mount point}

See the Solaris Administration Certification Guide, page 248 for more
details, especially for the significance of the � �O � parameter.  The
above command is valid only for the current reboot session. If the
machine is shut down and restarted, the above command does not exit.
For default post-reboot drive slice-to-directory mount point mapping
(connection), you must open the file named /etc/vfstab. In that file are
entries placed there by Solaris to make default mount point connections.
You can use their format and make your own permanent entries, which
result in automatically making mount point connections upon the next and
future reboots.

If you want to create shares using the Solaris Management Console, the
slices to be shared must be in ufs format prior to beginning the convert
to share process.

The installation can be summarized in the following steps:

1. Put the OS #1 disk in the CD-ROM drive and boot off of it
2. Go through the character-based part of the install
3. The install then switches to GUI mode to finish the first CD
4. At the end of the first CD installation the system will reboot -
remove the CD before the system starts booting to force it to boot off
of the hard-drive
5. Once the system starts supply a root password and use the OS #2 CD
for the second part of the GUI installation.
6. Once the installation routine has finished with the OS #2 disk the
system will reboot.
7. Convert slices to ufs and map the slices to directory mount points.

If you think you may have messed up during the install, simply boot off
your DOS floppy and use FDISK to remove the �non-DOS partition� and
start over.

Once you're in the GUI, all you have to do is drop in the �Software
Companion� CD (contained in the �Bonus Software� pack of the media kit)
and select the Default Install option. This will install things like ftp
servers, Samba , as well as editors, GUI utilities and a host of other
things. Here, you can customize what is loaded onto the hard drive.
It'll present a list of what's going to be installed. If you see things
you don't want, you can always click the �Back� button and use the
Custom Install option. Note that you'll have to use the �Removable Media
Manager� selection (from the pop-up menu above the �Home Folder� icon)
to eject the CD when you're done. Time: about 15 minutes.

If you use a proxy server for Internet access, open Netscape Navigator
to Edit / Preferences. Enter proxy server information. Verify you can
access the internet. A good site to use for testing is www.ntsb.gov. The
Hardware Compatibility List dated 10/00 does not list any modems of the
PCI nor ISA designs, only PCMCIA designs (which fit into laptop
computers).

If you were able to allocate sufficient space to the /opt slice you may
also want to drop in the Documentation CD and run the Installer on that.
The reference manual collection alone will take up 90 meg and there are
numerous other collections. Time: about 14 minutes.

While in CDE you may want to play around with admintool. It's a GUI
utility that allows you to manage user accounts, groups, printers, etc.
Pop up the menu above the CPU/Disk �Performance Meter� icon ( is blank
most of the time ) and select �This Host� to open a terminal window.
Type in admintool at the # prompt to start the utility. The various
options are under the Browse menu and Add/Modify/ Delete functions are
under the Edit menu. There is no need to install user applications at
root level. Add a user name of your choice to the list. Once a user name
has been added to the Admin List, press OK.

You can access other applications by right-clicking on the desktop and
clicking on �Applications�.

As the administrator / super user / root, click on the  /opt  folder and
open the Properties window. Change all privileges for everyone to rwe
for all subfolders. The user can then store and run programs from that
folder.

Also, change user font size to something larger using the TT icon from
the admin tools. Change Netscape Navigator font size and type to
Helvetica 14-point for both.

As a user, load Solaris Star Office by placing the CD in the drive, let
the installation window appear, and click on the Solaris  folder,  NOT
on the Sparc Solaris folder. (Note the spelling difference!) Load about
415 items. Find and double-click the Setup icon at the bottom of the
listing. Change file destination to opt/{user}/office52.  Custom install
everything for maximum options. Exit from the current dialog box. Open
Media Manager box to eject the CD-ROM.

Start Up

If Help Viewer and File Manager keep popping up every time you log in
and it gets annoying having to close them every time, here's a procedure
to get a clean desktop when you log in:

� Click on the Desktop Controls icon to open the �Application Manager�
window with it's icons
� Double-click on the Startup Style Manager icon to open the �Style
Manager� window (which auto-opens the �Startup� window)
� Alt-Esc to bring the �Application Manager� window again to the
foreground and close it
� In the �Startup� window click on the Set Home Session button
� Also in the �Startup� window, in the �At Login:� area, select Return
to Home session
� Close the Style Manager windows

If you're like me and you find yourself constantly opening a �This Host�
terminal window for command-line operations, you may want to have one of
those open before performing the above procedure. That way it will open
automatically when you log in.

Shut Down

You don't want to just shut off a UNIX system! Open a �This Host�,
terminal window:

 Enter  �# shutdown �yi5�  for a shutdown and manual reboot by pressing
any key
 Enter  �# shutdown �yi6�  for a shutdown and automatic reboot

If you don't have a # prompt it's because you're not logged into the
system as root. After the shutdown process it's safe to turn off the
system when you see the following three lines at the bottom of the
screen:

The system is down
synching files systems... done
Type any key to continue
Don't be concerned if there's a few utmpx error messages mixed in with
the above. It's because /var is on its' own slice and it's not
indicative of a problem. If you �type any key� the system will reboot.




"L. Yeung" wrote:

> Hi! im trying to install solaris 8 10/00 for x86. i
> could boot by cdrom... probed my hardwares... then the
> menu asked me to choose interactive or webstart
> installation... after choosing any of the menu... my
> pc restarted... then booted solaris cd and started all
> over again.. tried it the entire day... seems i cant
> get solaris work on my workstation... any help is
> greatly appreciated..
>
> -len
>
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