Installing GUI on Oracle Solaris 11 (sol-11_4-text-x86.iso)
Sun Solaris, now known as Oracle Solaris, is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle Solaris 11, released after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, is designed for enterprise environments, offering robustness, scalability, and advanced features.
Oracle Solaris 11 combines the heritage of Unix stability with modern advancements in virtualization, security, and performance, making it a powerful platform for enterprise computing needs.
We need to complete several steps to get it working correctly.
1. GNU GRUB Boot Loader.
2. Sun Solaris Booting.
3. Boot the system -- System Ready.
4. Boot the system -- Logged In.
5. Switch to root.
su
6. Running top.
top
7. Running pkg update.
pkg update
8. Running pkg update.
9. Running pkg update.
10. Update completed.
11. Reboot.
reboot
12. Reboot.
13. After reboot and login.
14. Running pkg install solaris-desktop.
pkg install solaris-desktop
15. Running pkg install solaris-desktop.
16. Running pkg install solaris-desktop.
18. Desktop environment ready.
19. Desktop environment ready.
20. Desktop environment ready.
21. Desktop environment ready.
22. Desktop environment ready.
23. Desktop environment ready.
24. Desktop environment ready.
25. Desktop environment ready.
26. Desktop environment ready.
27. Terminal Access.
uname -a
28. Terminal version.
echo $BASH_VERSION
29. Running top.
top
30. Running prtdiag.
prtdiag
31. Running prtconf.
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prtconf
32. Running prstat.
prstat
33. Running pmap.
pmap
34. Running svcs -a.
svcs -a
35. Running format.
format
36. Running ipadm show-if and ipadm show-addr.
ipadm show-if
ipadm show-addr
37. Running netstat -an.
netstat -an
38. Running dtrace -l.
dtrace -l
39. Running iostat -x and vmstat 1 .
iostat -x
vmstat 1
40. Running mpstat 1.
mpstat 1
41. Running dmesg | more.
dmesg | more
42. Running pkg list.
pkg list
43. Running pkg update.
pkg update
44. Running pkg info.
pkg info
45. Running ptree.
ptree
46. Running zpool iostat -v 1.
zpool iostat -v 1
47. Running zdb -C.
zdb -C
48. Running nfsstat -c.
nfsstat -c
49. Running nfsstat -s.
nfsstat -s
50. Running auditconfig -conf and auths alex.
auditconfig -conf
auths alex
51. Running poweroff.
poweroff
52. Shutting down.
Well, that was exciting. See you in the next one!
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