I installed Solaris 9 to my Ultra 2, and later, only AFTER the GNOME
desktop had been installed, did I realize that somehow, a LOT of Solaris
wasn't installed, for reasons I don't know.

Am I going to have to reinstall the whole thing all over again from
scratch, or is there a way to have the machine automatically install
the missing components? (There are so many missing components that
it's unreasonable to even think of installing them individually.)

CJ

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:08:39 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:

> Am I going to have to reinstall the whole thing all over again from
> scratch

Depends somewhat on the amount of free disk space you have. You want to
post the output of 'df -k'?

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:08:39 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>Am I going to have to reinstall the whole thing all over again from
>>scratch
>
>
> Depends somewhat on the amount of free disk space you have. You want to
> post the output of 'df -k'?
>


Sure.

I have 18 GB in the machine, so presumably I've got the space.

Here it is:

# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2367085 1184939 1134805 52% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 2371160 32 2371128 1% /var/run
swap 2371144 16 2371128 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 8705501 9 8618437 1% /export/home0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 4775266 73034 4654480 2% /export/home






That's the whole list. It seems small even to me.


CJ

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:09:39 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:

> I have 18 GB in the machine, so presumably I've got the space.
>
> Here it is:
>
> # df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2367085 1184939 1134805 52% /
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> swap 2371160 32 2371128 1% /var/run
> swap 2371144 16 2371128 1% /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 8705501 9 8618437 1% /export/home0
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 4775266 73034 4654480 2% /export/home

Looks like you did not install the software on Software CD 2/2. Drop that
CD into the drive and when the dtfile window appears on your desktop
double-click on the "installer" icon.

If that does not do it, then take a look at the content of
/var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER. It should read 'CLUSTER=SUNWCall' for a
'complete' installation.

[bin]# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1986439 1311528 615318 69% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 578351 148422 372094 29% /var
swap 542344 32 542312 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 4034392 1503313 2490736 38% /opt
swap 1159056 616744 542312 54% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1504639 473803 970651 33% /usr/sfw
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 3608078 2413613 1158385 68% /export/home

Your /opt and /usr/sfw will not have that much usage on a fresh install.
GNOME is not installed; it would have increased the usage of / by about
300MB.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:09:39 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>I have 18 GB in the machine, so presumably I've got the space.
>>
>>Here it is:
>>
>># df -k
>>Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
>>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2367085 1184939 1134805 52% /
>>/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
>>mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
>>fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
>>swap 2371160 32 2371128 1% /var/run
>>swap 2371144 16 2371128 1% /tmp
>>/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 8705501 9 8618437 1% /export/home0
>>/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 4775266 73034 4654480 2% /export/home
>
>
> Looks like you did not install the software on Software CD 2/2. Drop that
> CD into the drive and when the dtfile window appears on your desktop
> double-click on the "installer" icon.
>
> If that does not do it, then take a look at the content of
> /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER. It should read 'CLUSTER=SUNWCall' for a
> 'complete' installation.
>
> [bin]# df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1986439 1311528 615318 69% /
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 578351 148422 372094 29% /var
> swap 542344 32 542312 1% /var/run
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 4034392 1503313 2490736 38% /opt
> swap 1159056 616744 542312 54% /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1504639 473803 970651 33% /usr/sfw
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 3608078 2413613 1158385 68% /export/home
>
> Your /opt and /usr/sfw will not have that much usage on a fresh install.
> GNOME is not installed; it would have increased the usage of / by about
> 300MB.
>




OK, now for a dumb question:

How would I go about restarting the process of installing disk 2?

CJ

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:26:00 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>OK, now for a dumb question:
>>
>>How would I go about restarting the process of installing disk 2?
>
>
> Does that mean that you installed -some- of the packages on CD 2/2 but did
> not complete that installation?

Let me be a little more clear: I need very specific, basic
instructions. Simply inserting the CD in the drive doesn't
automatically take me to an installation program, and I'm afraid
I will have to be guided through the process. I'm afraid that I'm
a total beginner when it comes to doing anything with the Sun OS and/or
Solaris.



>
> Have you looked at the contents of the packages on CD 2/2 and compared
> them with the software which you seem to be missing?

I'm not even all that sure of how I'd do that.

>
> What is the content of the file /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER?

I'll check.


CJ


>

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:08:01 +0000, Chris Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Dave Uhring wrote:

>> Does that mean that you installed -some- of the packages on CD 2/2 but did
>> not complete that installation?
>
> Let me be a little more clear: I need very specific, basic
> instructions. Simply inserting the CD in the drive doesn't
> automatically take me to an installation program, and I'm afraid
> I will have to be guided through the process. I'm afraid that I'm
> a total beginner when it comes to doing anything with the Sun OS and/or
> Solaris.

It's just not possible to provide such specific instructions without even
knowing what you have already done. If you selected a "Complete" install
during the installation, you should have been prompted after the first
reboot to remove CD 1 from the drive and insert CD 2.

Did you select a "Complete" install? If so, did you place CD 2 into the
drive when prompted?

>
>>
>> Have you looked at the contents of the packages on CD 2/2 and compared
>> them with the software which you seem to be missing?
>
> I'm not even all that sure of how I'd do that.

You posted the output of 'df -k', so I assume that you do have at least a
minimally working system, one which -should- have vold working. Is it
running?

[tmp]# ps -ef | grep vold
root 247 1 0 Jul 16 ? 0:01 /usr/sbin/vold

If you get this kind of result, then placing CD 2 into the drive -should-
result in a pop-up window on your display.

If vold is not running, then, after placing CD 2 into the drive,

# mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom
# cd /cdrom
# ls

and you should see the contents of the top-level directory on the CD.

>>
>> What is the content of the file /var/sadm/system/admin/CLUSTER?
>
> I'll check.

There are a number of books available which explain such basics of Solaris
administration. A free one which you can download is at:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/solSysadminGuide/

It's a PDF file but if you have Adobe's Acrobat Reader on that XP box, you
can read it, even print parts of it should you wish.