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