Installing into a VMware VM

Overview, for details see separate page with screenshots. We're assuming that VMware is already installed and functional.

Create a VM for Schillix with the parameters:
- Oracle Solaris 10 (64bit) as Guest OS
- 1x vCPU
- 3G RAM
- 20G Disk (2x 20G if SDS mirroring is to be configured)
Choose SchilliX-0.8.en_US.iso as primary boot device, make sure it is selected as image-device.
Start the VM, open a console, and select an US keyboard layout.
Wait for the system to complete booting.
login using the GUI Console (root/root)
assign an IP Address using the command ifconfig(1) ifconfig e1000g0 <IP>/24 up
now login to the system using ssh(1) and the IP address assigned to it in the previous step.
create a 100% Solaris FDisk Partition (on a previously unpartitioned disk, the default is t set 100% to Solaris2) fdisk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0
use format(1m) to partition into the following slices
create a filesystem for /: newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
mount to /mnt: mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt
copy the initial system to your future root filesystem mounted on /mnt: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom . /mnt (¿What do these options mean?)

slice	name	size
s0	root	15GB
s1	swap	3GB
s7	stateDB	500MB

example:

partition> print
Current partition table (unnamed):
Total disk cylinders available: 3913 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
  0       root    wm       1 - 1959       15.01GB    (1959/0/0) 31471335
  1       swap    wu    1960 - 2351        3.00GB    (392/0/0)   6297480
  2     backup    wu       0 - 3912       29.98GB    (3913/0/0) 62862345
  3 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  4 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  5 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  6 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  7   reserved    wu    2352 - 2415      502.03MB    (64/0/0)    1028160
  8       boot    wu       0 -    0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)       16065
  9 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

write the bootpath into the emulated OpenFirmware Variable list: genbootpath /mnt >> /mnt/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc
configure the grub bootloader

   cp /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst.sample  /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
   mkdir /mnt/boot/grub/bootsign
   touch /mnt/boot/grub/bootsign/schillix

in /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst, all root (hd0,0,a) need to be converted to findroot (schillix,0,a)
write the boot block: installgrub -m /mnt/boot/grub/stage[12] /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
create a boot archive: bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
create a device file system on the future root disk mounted at mnt: devfsadm -r /mnt \item in {\sl /mnt/etc/vfstab} {\sl /} und swap\footnote{/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no - } eintragen \ {\sl /} ist logging (default) zu setzen
fix file ownership and permissions:

  chown root:root /mnt
  chmod g-s,u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /mnt

vfstab

#device            device          mount           FS      fsck    mount   mount
#to mount       to fsck         point           type    pass    at boot options
#
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /          ufs     1       no      rw,logging
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 -             -               swap    -       no      -
/devices        -               /devices        devfs   -       no      -
/proc           -               /proc           proc    -       no      -
ctfs            -               /system/contract ctfs   -       no      -
objfs           -               /system/object  objfs   -       no      -
sharefs         -               /etc/dfs/sharetab       sharefs -       no      -
fd              -               /dev/fd         fd      -       no      -
swap            -               /tmp            tmpfs   -       yes     -

sample host

::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost loghost
10.10.100.46    schillix sc-7 # VM sahara-c

schillix/24 up

# umount /mnt
# fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 
** /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
** Last Mounted on /mnt
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3a - Check Connectivity
** Phase 3b - Verify Shadows/ACLs
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cylinder Groups
59405 files, 1277637 used, 14203808 free (888 frags, 1775365 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)

sendmail

to stop sendmail from complaining, it can be disabled svcadm disable -t network/smtp:sendmail

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