Solaris - Newbie need help

imyourfriend · January 17, 2005, 3:46am

Hi everybody.

Sorry my English, first. Im a Solaris newbie. I want to learn Solaris. I've a Solaris 9 CD. I try to setup into my PC (Dell, PIV 2.8GHz, RAM 256Mb, HDD 40Gb), but it can't boot from the CD? What will I do to make it bootable and start the installation. Please tell me the format of all partitions and its size in the most suitable.

In case that I want to install on a virtual machine, I use VMware 4.5.1-7568, and I created a virtual machine with 128 RAM, 10Gb HDD. How can make it boot and partition the 10Gb of virtual machine.

Thank for your help.

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98_1LE · January 17, 2005, 7:54am

First off is the CD for Sparc or x86 Solaris?

Is the CDROM first in the boot order in BIOS?

RTM · January 17, 2005, 8:15am

Removed email address - See rule 10

imyourfriend · January 17, 2005, 8:29pm

:), I will not post email address next time.

This CD is Solaris for Intel, and I have set CDROM boot first. Someone tell me to boot by a floppy, but i dont know how to make a bootable floppy for Solaris or get its image. What will I do?

RTM · January 17, 2005, 10:08pm

See the instructions at SUN DOCS for booting the cdrom.