Oracle on Al's Ramblings

OEL Handsfree install for Oracle VM Manager part 2

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So part one finished up with a Virtualbox VM , two blank disk and the OEL CD image in the virtual CD drive.

Fair warning I have taken some liberty with technical preciseness of handsfree, but it’s pretty close. If some knows how I can second commands to the guest from the host command line let me know, virt-install maybe.

So this is straight forward and I have covered some of these techniques in other posts like Kickstart for Solaris Admins or my even older Grub menu reinstall. Startup the VB guest it should boot off your attached CD/DVD image. and the welcome screen press TAB key

Solaris 11 Express upgrade to Solaris 11/11

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 11/11 has been out for some time I’ve been slow to move. Mostly the Solaris 11 express I run know works well and fits my needs so I have not need to upgrade. However I’m working on some side project and some software is going to need complied, that and I figured I need to keep my hand in so best move up to the current release.

So should be pretty straight forward:

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin's

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin’sSo sometimes Solaris Admins need to turn their hand at another OS for various reasons, especial in this day and age of mass production of virtual environments. Solaris Admins will be well versed with jumpstart a tried and truly tested system of automated builds for over a decade now. While recently this system has been thrown out with the bath water for AI in Solaris 11 and while the jury is still out on that one that’s a conversation for another time.

Oracle Solaris download from OTN with wget

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 10 Update 9 recently announced and I believe this is the first release under the new stewardship. For the first time last month I received an email from my ISP saying I was getting close to my peak download limit, so I am making concerted effort to download in my off-peak time.