The docs.sun.comSM Web site enables youto access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archiveor search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com. Man pages are available at this Web site.In addition, man pages are directly available at the command line. This section describesall of these Solaris 10 documentation options.
Solaris 10 documentation is also available on a Solaris 10 Documentation DVD.For further information, see Solaris 10 Documentation Media.
Using the Sun Documentation Web Site
Complete Solaris 10 documentation is provided at the http://docs.sun.com Web site. Advantages to this Web site includethe following:
The Web site contains the most current revisions of all Solaris documentation.
The http://docs.sun.com Web site is searchable.
Searching for Solaris 10 Documentation
Because no web server is located on the Solaris 10 Documentation media, no searchfeature is included on the media. To search the documentation, use one of these actions:
Re: Download Solaris 10 6/06 Software Companion S10U2 (SPARC) as ISO? 807557 Aug 29, 2006 10:16 PM ( in response to 807557 ) The DVD is on the main download site for both Sparc and x64 I know, you asked about CD, not DVD but. I installed all of the packages from the Companion CD, but I'm still missing lots! For example, I'd like subversion, gcc, MySql 5.x, MySql Query Browser and Firefox 3 (yeah Solaris ships with 2). I downloaded FF3 but when I run it get complaints about needing Gtk+ 2.10 (ships with 2.4). Unfortunately, OpenSolaris is not an option.
Go to the SunTM online documentation Web siteat http://docs.sun.com/. ThisWeb site contains online documentation for current and previous Solaris releases,as well as for many other Sun products. This site provides multiple entry points intothe documentation, including a robust search engine that can handle complex searches.
Install the document collections in your own environment and connectthem to a search engine. This approach requires that you have a web server and a searchengine installed on your system.
The following list identifies just a few of the Solaris 10 collections thatare available for download.
Java Desktop System Release 3
Solaris 10 International Language Support Collection
Solaris 10 on Sun Hardware Collection
Solaris 10 Reference Manual Collection
Solaris 10 Release and Installation Collection
Solaris 10 Software Developer Collection
Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection
Solaris 10 User Collection
If you do not have a search engine, Sun includes a simple freewaresearch utility (sgrep) on the Solaris 10 Companion CD. For moreinformation, see the sgrep man page on the Solaris 10 CompanionCD. As an alternative, see the sgrep Web site at http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html.
The CD images are much older than the combined DVD image. According to the Readme the CD was distributed with Solaris 10 1/05 (GA/FCS), while the DVD image contains the Companion Software distributed with Solaris 10 1/06 (U1). If you want a more recent version download the individual files from sunfreeware.com or share the DVD with NFS. PHP is installed from the Solaris Software Companion CD. MediaWiki consists of downloaded PHP scripts that use MySQL. The following details each step. (Another method: CoolStack from Sun, specifically CSKamp for Apache, MySQL and PHP, and CSKmemcached for memcached.) MySQL. MySQL is part of Stock Solaris 10. Cdrecord: A CD/DVD/BD recording program readcd: A program to read CD/DVD/BD media with CD-clone features cdda2wav: The most evolved CD-audio extraction program with paranoia support mkisofs: A program to create hybrid ISO9660/Joliet/HFS filesystems with optional Rock Ridge attributes isodebug: A program to print mkisofs debug information from media isodump: A program to dump ISO-9660 media.
Finding Man Pages
Solaris 10 man pages are provided on the Solaris 10 Documentation DVD and onlineat http://docs.sun.com/. Bothsites include the following man page sections from the Solaris 10 ReferenceManual Collection:
man pages section 3: Multimedia Library Functions
In addition, individual man pages can be displayed at the command line by performingthe following steps.
Displaying Man Pages Online
Steps
Optional: At the command line, type man man.
For users who are not familiar with man pages, this optional step providesan introduction.
The man(1) pageis displayed. This man page provides the following information:
Location of man pages
Man command options
Manual page organization
Man page search path
Additional references
At the command line, type man name.
The man page is displayed for the interface and its options.
We are very well acquainted with Linux, however, when it comes to UNIX based operating system then most don’t know from where to download it. Just like Linux Distros Unix is also available under different names such as Oracle Solaris, OpenSolaris (Discontinued), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. There is quite a confusion between Unix and open source Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. Unix like OS also refer as UN*X or *nix OS are those behaved like UNIX OS following its standardization, basically, they derived from UNIX and sometimes developed as free and open source or proprietary. UNIX was developed at Bell Labs in Manhattan.
Now, What is Solaris?
Solaris is a SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) operating system based on UNIX and primarily developed by Sun Microsystem as a superior version to replace their earlier OS called SunOS. However, later in 2010, Oracle has accessed Sun Microsystem and till today Solaris is developed and maintained by Oracle under Oracle Solaris project. It is not completely open source and comes with some proprietary components means few parts are open source to the public and rest of closed such as Solaris kernel source code which apparently becomes closed source after Solaris 11. Well, Oracle Solaris latest version is 11.4 and available on Oracle website published approx. 9 months ago, still, there are some speculations on the Oracle’s Solaris roadmap i.e whether they will continue the development of it or not. However, there is no official news on it yet.
Coming, to the main agenda of this article is how to downloads Oracle Solaris ISO or VM(OVA) to install on VirtualBox Virtual Machine.
Solaris Operating system installation on VirtualBox VM
Will show steps to install the Oracle version of Solaris and where to download it in both ISO and VM image formats. Also, the steps will be the same for Windows 10/7, Linux and MacOS for Solaris UNIX installation using Virtualbox.
Step 1: Download Oracle Solaris OS in ISO or VM (ova) image format
As I said this operating system is maintained by Oracle, thus we have to visit their website.
Here is the link: Visit Oracle website
When the page will open, under the Downloads tab you will see different options to download Solaris OS.
One is the Installation from CD/DV or USB. When you click this link on the page, Solaris ISO file will get downloaded. Go for Oracle Solaris 11.4 Text Installer X86 base for normal PC, Laptop or Virtual machine installation.
Another one is Oracle VM Templates, where the latest pre-built Virtual images for Oracle VirtualBox, Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris 10 Zone are available to download.
Apart from this, you can also download older versions ISO files of this UNIX operating system from here.
Note: For Virtualization, VM templates are recommended.
Once click any of the above options, a page will open, where you have to accept terms and conditions to download it. Plus to download the site will ask you to login with Oracle account if you have then used that otherwise create one. It is free of cost.
Step 2: Create VM for Solaris on VirtualBox
If you have downloaded ISO image of this UNIX OS then you can simply go to the VirtualBox, click on New button from the menu and type Solaris in the Name section. As you type it, the VirtualBox automatically set the rest of the options. However, as we are installing the latest version of Solaris i.e 11.4, so from the Version drop-down box select Oracle Solaris 11 (64 bit). Click on the Next button.
Step 3: Assign Memory and Hard disk
Now, in the next guided steps, you get options to assign RAM and Hard disk space for the operating system; Set RAM to minimum 2GB and Minimum 20GB of Virtual Hard disk storage. Note: Leave all the other options to its default while assigning RAM and Storage Space.
Step 4: Set Solaris ISO as a boot medium for VirtualBox’s VM
To use the downloaded bootable image of this UNIX OS in VirtualBox, first, select the recent created Solaris Virtual Machine that appears on the left side of the VB and then click on the Settings gear icon.
Now select Storage->Empty CD icon-> again click on CD icon given under the Attributes and finally select Virtual Optical Disk file. It will open explorer of Windows, Linux or MacOS where you are using VirtualBox and then select the ISO image. Finally, Click on the OK button.
After all above steps, finally, click on the START button given in the VB menu to start virtual machine booting process.
Step 5: Import Oracle Solaris 11 VM for Oracle VM VirtualBox (optional step)
As we said at the beginning of the article that the operating the system is available in both ISO and VM image format, well above we have shown how to use its ISO image and here we are going to use the VM template.
Well, if you just want to use this OS only on Virtualization environment then VM templates are recommended. We have also used it to show this article.
After downloading VM image in OVA format go to VirtualBox, click on File menu->select Import Appliances and Import Virtual Appliance or the OVA image of the OS.
All the settings for the Virtual Machine have already been done by the Oracle for us. So, what we have to do is just a click on the Import button.
To start Solaris Virtual Machine select it from the left side panel and click on the Start button.
Step 6: Boot Virtual Machine
If everything goes well you will see the Grub boot menu, press the Enter button.
Step 7: System Configuration
Some information about what are we about configure would show, press F2 to continue the installation process.
Give some name to your computer and then F2 button.
Select the available network connection to configure and press F2.
Step 7: System Root Password
Assign some System password to that will use to access the Solaris as the root user.
In the next step add your email and Password of Oracle Support account to get informed on security updates otherwise skip it using F2 Key.
At the last of the guided steps of the installer review the configuration you made and press F2 to implement them all.
Step 8: Login to OS
Use username as root and password is what you have created above and enter them to log in.
Step 9: Beautiful Solaris Gnome interface
After login, you will see the clean Gnome interface and now start using it to learn curves of UNIX OS.
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