Oracle Server - SPARC M10 - Install Solaris

Unless you intend using the pre-installed disk image on each PPAR there are several possible methods for installing the PPARs including:

• Install each PPAR from Solaris DVD using a USB local drive.The drive must be connected to the front of a BB – see MOS Document ID 1553734.1.

• Install Solaris 10 PPAR using an install server (e.g. via JET). This requires the availability of an install server provided by customer or an engineer's laptop (in those countries where laptops are used as install servers AND the Customer permits introduction of a laptop into the data center).

• Install Solaris 11 PPAR using public or local Solaris repository.

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1.  Pre-installed disk image
Standard installations carried out by manufacturing are as follows:

•  Solaris 11.1 will have been loaded.

•  ZFS root file system will be default.

•  The on-board RAID (if available) will not be active.

•  The system will have been patched and configured according to EIS methodology

•  Before leaving the factory, the system will have been “sys-unconfig'd” and the SPset back to defaults.

If you have set up a RAID configuration for the boot disk the pre-installed image
will be lost.
2. Booting from an External DVD

The below example is from a M10-4S with 4 building blocks and the external dvd is being attached to BB#3 which is assigned to LSB03.

•     Plug the external DVD player into the USB port on the front of the M10 machine.

•     Power the DVD player on.

•     Power on the server, or type 'reset-all'  at the OBP  prompt

•     For this example the DVD is connected to the front USB port of BB#03 which is LSB03.  Look at the 'show-devs' output and look for a line similar to this:

            /pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2
    (See Doc Id. 1543194.1 for more M10 device path information)

If you don't see the string "disk" at the end, the DVD play is not properly attached and powered on.
Correct:
/pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk
DVD Not connected:
/pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1

Then to boot type:
boot /pci@9800/pci@4/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@4,1/hub@2/storage@1/disk