Installing Solaris 10

We've given an ISO of Solaris 10 on this month's 'PCQXtreme' DVD. Burn it on a DVD and boot any x86 system from it. We suggest you have at least 512 MB RAM and 7 GB of free hard drive space on the system.

You can choose to install the complete Solaris OS or use it as a server for developers or end users, in which case users would login remotely as thin clients and use it

The installation of Solaris is initiated by Grub and unlike other OSs, there are more manual steps involved in it. Like Linux distro installations, Solaris also gives two installation options: graphical and text modes. For selecting the graphical mode choose the 'Solaris Interactive' option, else press 'F2' to install in text mode.

Next select the language you want to use during the installation and click on 'Next.' An installation program welcome screen greets you, showing the list of information that will be collected from you during the installation process and in the next step you will see a Solaris 10 welcome screen. Having two welcome screens in an installation process is something undesirable and could be easily integrated to reduce the number of steps.

Apart from all the server class apps for managing different services you can also find regular office apps like StarOffice, mail client, web browser, etc

Next you have to choose the action to be performed after the installation is complete: automatically restart and eject the media or complete the process manually. Doing manually is better because any ways you have to remove the DVD from the drive to prevent it from restarting the installation. Select the media you will be installing from, which in our case is DVD. Other options are CD or over the network.

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