

- #Install rlwrap solaris how to
- #Install rlwrap solaris install
- #Install rlwrap solaris manual
- #Install rlwrap solaris password
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# ipadm create-ip net0 #create an IP interface that can handle IPv4 and IPv6
#Install rlwrap solaris install
If, as me, your network wasn’t configured at install time, or you want to change some settings, here are the commands: $ dladm show-link #show link information Congratulations, you just installed Solaris. Wait until the login screen appears to do some post installation tasks. Reboot your newly created VM and this screen will appear Press F4 to see the install log or F8 to reboot Post-install tasks Just press F2 to start the actual installation:Īfter a while, the installation will be complete. The installer then shows a summary screen: summary screen. If you don’t comply there will be an error: what do you mean I can’t use 123456?
#Install rlwrap solaris password
There are some password policies, like password length for example. It says a user account is optional but I think should be mandatory.

The last question is to create a root password and a regular user account. This time is for the installed system and previously we choose for the installer. Then you have to choose your keyboard layout again. My usual choice should be spanish argentina Now you need to choose the system language and locale settings. It begins with your continent, next your country and finally (if there are more than one timezone on your country) your city. On the next screen you need to choose your time zone. I’ll back later as one of possible post-install tasks.

For some reason my network card wasn’t detected at install time and got this screen: no network found 🙁
#Install rlwrap solaris manual
Here you normally would choose between manual ip/gateway/dns configuration or dhcp. The next step is to configure the network card. Now you have to name your computer computer name I’ve just choose to use the entire disk but you can customize with the second option “Use a GPT partition of the disk” Disk partitions The next screen will show the found disk(s) and propose a partition schema I’m using just a local disk for this article Let the installer detect the available disks. Now, as with almost every Operating System, it’s time to create some disk partitions. tl dr: it’s mostly an matter of pressing F2 Initial help screen
#Install rlwrap solaris how to
This “first” screen shows you how to navigate though the screens in the installer. Choose 1 Oracle Solaris installation menu Now you can actually start the installation. Second you choose the language used during the installation: I’d normally choose Spanish, but I choose english for this tutorial. Near the end of the installation, you’ll have to choose again for the installed system. The first screen looks like this: booting solarisįirst you need to choose the keyboard layout to use during the installation. Now you can boot the newly created virtual machine to install Oracle Solaris. Initial hardware resources assignment Step 3: install Oracle Solaris :facepalm emoji: Creating a Virtual Machine. They, Oracle, says that in the Systems Requeriments page that I didn’t read until something fails, of course. Assign at least 4Gb of RAM or the installation will fail with an “not enough space” error. After the installation you can adjust also how many CPU cores the VM will have. In my case the wizard was unable to identify the ISO, if this is your case also, choose the template for Oracle Solaris 11 and click next. Boxes can download for you a lot of Operating Systems but Solaris isn’t in the list, so choose the last button: Operating System Image File, and then the file you’ve just downloaded. Step 2: create a virtual machineĪfter the download, launch gnome-boxes and create a new VM. If you don’t have an Oracle account you can register a new one.
#Install rlwrap solaris iso
In the following url you can download the ISO image. Anyway, to use in production, a real server would do better. Last year I’ve switched from VirtualBox (also from Oracle) to gnome-boxes, but the general procedure should be pretty similar to any VM system. OmniOS is a distribution of illumos, which is based on (now discontinued) OpenSolaris, which was based on Oracle Solaris.įor this article I’m going back to the “source” to show how to install Oracle Solaris 11.4, screen by screen. Some time ago, I wrote an article on how to install OmniOS CE on VirtualBox.
