Posts Tagged Solaris
How to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10 (Part 2 of 3)
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Oracle, Solaris on December 14, 2009
After reviewing the requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10, (see the previous post Part 1 of 3), let’s begin the installation. After unzipping the 2 downloaded files, we have a database directory which contains all the needed files for the installation and the OUI (Oracle Universal Installer), the GUI [...]
How to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10 (Part 1 of 3)
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Oracle, Solaris on December 14, 2009
The deal today is to install the last version of Oracle Database, which is the 11g Release 2 (11.2), on Solaris 10. The first part of an instalation process should be to verify the requirements needed by the software we want to install. So the question is : What are the Oracle Database Preinstallation Requirements [...]
Deploy a small Grid on Sun Fire T1000 with Solaris Containers
Posted by Jorge Moratilla in Geek, Networking/Security, Solaris on December 4, 2009
This post is the first of three posts in which we will show you how to setup a fresh installed Sun Fire T1000 Server as a Solaris container server and deploy the Sun Grid Engine 6.2u4 software on different, securified, isolated zones. Architecture We are using a T1000 with on 1 Chip MultiThread processor with [...]
Solaris commands aren’t what they seem
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Solaris on November 3, 2009
With this new post I am going to show you some curious things that recently happened to me. For testing purposes I needed to remove the execution permission for regular users for the prstat command. So I just did a basic chmod (nothing strange for now…) : root@solarisbox# chmod 550 /usr/bin/prstat root@solarisbox# After that, regulars [...]
How to install AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) in OpenSolaris 2009.06
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in MySQL, Solaris on September 29, 2009
In this new post I’m going to explain how to install Apache Web Server 2.2 with MySQL5.1 and PHP5.2 on last version 2009.06 of OpenSolaris. In fact there is a special package for that : amp. We can install such package and nothing more, but I prefer to install each aplication separately. Look at this [...]
How to install MySQL 5.1 on OpenSolaris 2009.06
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in MySQL, Solaris on September 28, 2009
On this post I’m going to describe all the steps to install MySQL 5.1 Community Server on last version 2009.06 of OpenSolaris. First, we need to install the MySQL package : root@opensolaris:~# pkg install SUNWmysql51 DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) SUNWmysql51 0/2 0/335 0.00/84.19 Completed 2/2 335/335 84.19/84.19 PHASE ACTIONS Install Phase 427/427 root@opensolaris:~# NOTE [...]
Usefull links from sun.com : Solaris How-To Guides (dtrace, cluster, zfs, smf, …)
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Solaris on September 23, 2009
The other day I found the Solaris How-To Guides web page and I’d like to share it with you. There are some very interesting documents which explain how to install Solaris or how to configure Sun Cluster … : How to Quickly Install the Solaris 10 10/08 OS How to Use DTrace from a Solaris [...]
profile file for having a ZFS Root Mirrored File System with Jumpstart
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Solaris on September 17, 2009
If you have a JumpStart server and you want your clients to have a ZFS Root Filesystem (with a mirror), you can use the following profile file : # more profile install_type initial_install system_type standalone cluster SUNWCXall pool newpool auto auto auto mirror c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 # The 3 auto keywords respectively mean that the size [...]
How to add new x86 clients to an already configured x86 JumpStart server
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Solaris on September 17, 2009
On my previous post I described how to configure a Jumpstart server for x86 platforms. But it was for installing only one client… If you plan to mount such configuration, you may want to install more than one client, ¿no? So here are the steps for adding a new client : 1- We need to [...]
How to set up JumpStart with Solaris 10 on an x86 platform for x86 clients
Posted by Arnaud Delanoue in Solaris on September 16, 2009
This tutorial will show how to configure a JumpStart Server on a Solaris 10 x86 platform for installing x86 clients. I have test it with the 10/08 release (but it should work with any release) and Sun U20 Workstations (but it should work with any x86 platform…). I have based this how to on the [...]

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