Now let's talk about the Interactive Installer. Now we're going to talk about it over the next several sessions. There are several methods for installing Solaris 11. There's the Interactive which we're going to focus on because it's part of the exam objectives and the Automated Installer. Now I'll mention the Automated Installer a little bit later on in the session and we'll talk about it a little bit later on in the course as well. For now let's talk about the Interactive Installer since that's part of the exam objectives. The Interactive Installer uses either a Text Based CD to install or what's called the Live CD. There's also a method for doing an over the network installation by connecting to a network server. Now the Live CD itself is basically for standalone installations, you're putting a CD into a machine and you're installing that machine. The Text Installer on the other hand can be used for the standalone installation or it can be used to install from a network server as well. Let's discuss the Live CD a little bit. The Live CD can only install to the X86 platform not the Spark. Now when we talk about X86 we're talking about the traditional PC architecture, server architecture that you'll find in probably 80 or 90 percent of the PC's and laptops and servers in the world. The X86 basically is the Intel AMD type of platform. Now the Live CD let's you to boot into Solaris 11 and have no changes to your system. It doesn't install on the hard drive initially and it doesn't do anything, you can always go back to the operating system you had before with no problems, simply by rebooting the computer. But this gives you the opportunity to try it before you buy it. You can actually do work in the Solaris 11 Live CD and you can do all kinds of things with it. So you may be asking yourself, well why don't I just do that rather than install it? Well installing it actually helps you out with hardware, the performance is much better if you install it and truthfully if you're going to have a long term installation, it's best to just go ahead and install it on the hard drive. Now the Live CD contains software that really is more appropriate for desktop or a laptop installation, kind of a workstation type of software package. In fact the package that is installed with the Live CD is called Solaris Desktop. Now the Text Installer on the other hand, it can install on a Spark platform which is the native Sun Solaris legacy platform. Or it can install on the X86 chip set platform. It can be used on systems that really don't have or need a higher end graphics card because really for a server you don't really typically need those. The Text Installer also requires less memory than the Live CD because it doesn't use all the fancy graphics. The other thing the Text Installer can do for you is it gives you the ability to configure the network on a much more detailed basis. You can install and configure DNS Zones, LDAP and so forth. So obviously the Text Installer CD is really meant for a server package. In fact the package, the software set that's on the CD itself is the Solaris Large Server Package Set as oppose to the Solaris Desktop Set. So that really makes the difference as to which version of the install, the Interactive Installer that you want to use. Sure, you can use the Text Installer to install a workstation but most people probably won't do that. So you'll really use a Text Installer on a server or where you have no high end graphics card or when you don't have a lot of memory and so forth. You'll use the Live CD primarily when you want a desktop or workstation. Now the Live CD and the Text Installer CD both have default credentials that are built into them. There's a user account which is Jack and the password is Jack. For the root account the user name is Root with a password of Solaris. Now a couple of things about this is that when you install from the Live CD, the root password automatically becomes the same password as the user password you create. In the Text Installer CD that's not the case. You have to select a unique root password. The other thing is after you install the Live CD, the root account actually is forced to go through a password change so it can't be the default password of Solaris after that. Now one more thing we'll talk about just very briefly and that's the Automated Installer not the Interactive Installer. We use that to install for media, for only one system or when setting up a network image server to install multiple systems across the network. Now this isn't the same thing as an over the network install like we were talking about earlier. And again we'll discuss this a little bit later in the course since it's essentially not one of the exam objectives, it's more of an advanced topic. But we will mention it and talk about it a little bit later. It requires an AI Manifest which is basically an XML File of all the different settings you would have for different types of Solaris 11 boxes on the network. I'd mentioned to you earlier that we would talk about hardware requirements later and the reason I want to do that is because the hardware requirements really are based upon the version of the Interactive Installer that you use. For example the Live CD requires one gig of memory at minimum and a minimum disk space of 5 gig with a recommended of 7. The Text Installer uses the same amount of minimum memory but only requires 2.5 gig of disk space with a recommended of 4.5 gig. And the Automated Installer is listed there too and it obviously requires a recommended of 13 gig. So the hardware requirements do vary by installer and that's one reason we mention them now. So in our next session coming up we're going to go ahead and install using the Interactive Installers the Live CD and the Text Based Installer.
| Course: | Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 |
| Author: | Bobby Rogers |
| SKU: | 34398 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-083-1 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-24 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |