Installing Solaris 10 on a Sun Enterprise T1000

Installing Solaris 10 in a T1000 is not as easy as you think as this machine doesn’t have any USB ports nor optical units, just ethernet interfaces.

We will need:

1. Another machine with Solaris or OpenSolaris. I am going to use a VirtualBox machine with OpenSolaris as I don’t have another Solaris machine. The ethernet should be configured as “bridged” in VirtualBox and the host machine must be in the same subnet as the T1000 where we want to install Solaris.
2. The Solaris 10 64bits install DVD for SPARC (sun4v). I downloaded the image and mounted it inside VirtualBox.
3. The OpenSolaris server and the T1000 must be in the same subnet. We can get the T1000 MAC address from the OpenBoot or from the documentation.

We load OpenSolaris in the virtual machine and we mount the install DVD:

1. Mount the DVD
2. Be root
3. mkdir -p /path/to/anywhere/sol
4. mkdir -p /path/to/anywhere/config
5. cd /cdrom/cdrom0/S0/Solaris_10/Tools
6. ./setup_install_server /path/to/anywhere
7. add in /etc/dfs/dfstab: share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 -d “install dir” /path/to/anywhere/sol and add the path to config too.
8. Run shareall and share and check the folders are shared.
9. Check that nfsd is running: svcs -l svc:/network/nfs/server:default if not, execute it svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server:default
10. cd /cdrom/cdrom0/S0/Solaris_10/Tools
11. ./setup_install_server -b /path/to/boot
12. cp /cdrom/cdrom0/s0/Solaris_10/Misc/jumpstart_sample/* /path/to/config
13. edit /path/to/config/rules
14. write: network net_ip.0 && arch sparc – profile -
15. edit profile
16. write install_type initial_install
    system_type standalone
17. edit sysidcfg
18. add standard lines without root_passwd
19. cd /
20. umount the DVD
21. Edit /etc/hosts and add a new entry with host1 ip_t1000
22. cd /path/to/anywhere/Solaris_10/Tools
23. ./add_install_client -e ethernet_t1000 -s ip_server:/path/to/anywhere/sol -c ip_server:/path/to/anywhere/config -p ip_server:/path/to/anywhere/config host1 sun4v
24. Check in /etc/bootparams root_server is not localhost, it has to be the OpenSolaris server ip.
25. Boot the T1000, when we see the promt >ok type boot net -v – install
26. The installation will start, follow the onscreen instructions.
    

Archlinux, VirtualBox and USB support

I’ve been using Archlinux for some time now and I’m pretty happy with it.

I just want to comment how I got VirtualBox working with USB, just add the following line to your /etc/fstab file:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0

Now you should be able to connect USB memory drives, webcams, modems…and catch them inside the virtual machine within the guest operating system running.

Suspend to disk and ram in Debian and Ubuntu

I’ve discovered a nice package that can suspend the computer to disk and to ram, I’ve tryed it under ubuntu, kubuntu and Debian Lenny and it’s worked really nice every time I’ve suspended the computer.

http://suspend.sourceforge.net/

To install it:

#aptitude install uswsusp

To suspend to ram I just run:

#s2ram -f -p -m

To suspend to disk:

#s2disk

Some problems with OpenSuse 11

The system works great but there are some glitches I would like to be solved.

• Kopete shows a notification windows always a contact writes me, I’ve disabled every notification but it stills shows them.
• Flash plugin is not working under Konqueror4, it shows a gray square where the flash app should be, nothing more.

I’ve installed kopete from KDE3, it isn’t so beautiful but at least it is not so annoying.

Updated:

I’ve configured Kmail with IMAP Gmail, it works fine but when I want to download all mail to local for offline access (backup) it doesn’t download them all or it crashes configuring it, so I’ve installed Thunderbird and it works perfectly fine, I’m starting to think OpenSuse 11.0 is not a final version, it’s a beta in my opinion.

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