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Your own SPARCStation 5 workstation, with QEmu and Solaris, PART 2 - Installing Solaris 2.6

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  Overview In the previous installment, we downloaded all required software, created a disk image, and prepared the disk. We ended with a reboot, and the emulator should now be showing the OpenBIOS boot prompt again. We are ready to install Solaris. For our installation, we cannot always use the defaults that the installer presents us. We want to do three things differently: We want to set up the network using the virtual network system that QEMU provides the emulated machine with. This means that we will give the emulated system a fixed IP address. We want to have larger sizes for /var and /usr than the installer will use by default. We want to manually layout the file system. We don't want to automatically reboot after the installation is done. We want to set up a few little extra network options before the reboot. Starting the installation procedure After rebooting, the emulator will be in the OpenBIOS boot prompt. But this time, we will boot normally from the cdrom, instead
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Your own SPARCStation 5 workstation, with QEmu and Solaris, PART 1 - Setting up the emulator

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Overview Many years ago UI and UX were still in their diapers. Disk storage was frugal and expensive. A 100MB harddisk was considered huge, and it was as expensive as the whole rest of the computer system. The only systems that had developers who were exploring the corners of UI and UX were the Amiga and the Atari ST, and those systems were near to being obsolete. Let alone being considered for serious work. PCs had Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, which were graphical user interfaces, but drab as a mud fence. Around this time, CD-ROM entered the scene. And all of a sudden, there it was: cheap storage, removable, with the stellar size of 650MB and even more! Realistic graphics, photos, video, it became available to developers almost overnight! And everyone wanted a piece of it! Philips and Sony (who invented the CD) decided that if there is such an amount of storage, there should also be something that can make use of it. And the CD-i console was born. A great system, with great graphical po
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