Migration from SE 11 to S11

[Steve Roberts]

Hi,

Are there any documents out there which show how to migrate from
Solaris 11 Express, to Solaris 11. Any advise will be much
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Ian Collins]

On 11/16/11 08:52 AM, Steve Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any documents out there which show how to migrate from
> Solaris 11 Express, to Solaris 11. Any advise will be much
> appreciated.

The release note:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/upgrade-2.html

--
Ian Collins

[Steve Roberts]

Thank you very much. Your help is appreciated. Regards,

Steve

[Scott]

I'm not the OP, but this week I tried upgrading a VirtualBox S11E to
S11.
1) I couldn't get a graphical login afterwards, though gdm showed
enabled.

2) Through my company's slow proxy, I received timeouts midway through
upgrading. I had to set a parameter
to allow 240 seconds instead of 30 seconds timeout after seeing a
"slow link".

3) Eventually I gave up, deleted S11 that was upgraded from S11E and
did a fresh install of S11.
Same problem with text-based login, so "pkg install slim-install" gave
me gdm, enabled gdm, rebooted,
installed VirtualBox tools. Got GUI login.

4) The GUI-based Package Manager does not use the host's proxy
settings, nor an http_proxy=" environment variable.
Specifically, it cannot resolve pkg.oracle.com, because our internal
DNS won't resolve it.
If it would ask the proxy, the proxy knows the answer.
The command-line based pkg honors the "http_proxy=" environment
variable, and works.

Regards, Scott

[Heinz Müller]

Am 17.11.2011 06:16, schrieb Scott:
>

>
> 3) Eventually I gave up, deleted S11 that was upgraded from S11E and
> did a fresh install of S11.
> Same problem with text-based login, so "pkg install slim-install" gave
> me gdm, enabled gdm, rebooted,
> installed VirtualBox tools. Got GUI login.
>

Yesterday I installed Sol11 in text install mode too. A few questions:

1.
After first login I get a shell prompt. I think to get a CDE or GDM
I have to install the full repository, havn't I?

2. What do you mean by VirtualBox tools? Extension Pack?

Thanks!

Heinz

[Sami Ketola]

Heinz Müller <onkel...@mscologne.de> wrote:
> After first login I get a shell prompt. I think to get a CDE or GDM
> I have to install the full repository, havn't I?

Not needed. "pkg install solaris-desktop" should be enough for desktop
use.

Sami

[Scott]

On Nov 17, 11:12 pm, Heinz Müller <onkelhe...@mscologne.de> wrote:
> Am 17.11.2011 06:16, schrieb Scott:
>
>
>
> > 3) Eventually I gave up, deleted S11 that was upgraded from S11E and
> > did a fresh install of S11.
> > Same problem with text-based login, so "pkg install slim-install" gave
> > me gdm, enabled gdm, rebooted,
> > installed VirtualBox tools.  Got GUI login.
>
> Yesterday I installed Sol11 in text install mode too. A few questions:
>
> 1.
> After first login I get a shell prompt. I think to get a CDE or GDM
> I have to install the full repository, havn't I?

Looks like another poster answered that, though I doubt that would
have worked for me either since
others managed to get gdm to work with "pkg install slim-install".

>
> 2. What do you mean by VirtualBox tools? Extension Pack?

Once my Solaris 11 virtual host is running I can click "Devices",
"Install Guest Additions".
That mounts a virtual CD "VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.6_74713".
Once those are installed, I can do something handy called "shared
folders", so I can download or print something
in Firefox that won't download or won't print right with my company's
mandated IE.


By the way, ntp isn't going through my company's proxy either. The
company's nameservers do not have
all names in them, but somehow the proxy does. The nameservers omit
all of dnsalias.net, for example.
I can't resove time.nist.gov internally, but if I hit a public
nslookup webpage I can get 192.43.244.18, then type that
easy-to-figure out IP address into ntp, and get:
# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay
offset jitter
==============================================================================
192.43.244.18 .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000
0.000 0.000

Which, I think because stratum=16, means ntp is blocked, because it
won't use the proxy.

So that makes it:
- GUI-based package management
- ntp
that ignore the GUI-based "System, Preferences, Network Proxy" and
a command-line-based http_proxy= line, though for the latter I don't
know
how I'd tell ntp to use that.

Catalog refresh error:
Only 0 out of 1 catalogs successfully updated.
Unable to contact valid package repository
Encountered the following error(s):
Unable to contact any configured publishers.
This is likely a network configuration problem.
Framework error: code: 6 reason: Couldn't resolve host
'pkg.oracle.com'
URL: 'http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release'. (happened 4 times)

I only have experience with this one company firewall/proxy, so it's
possible that
every other company runs full nameservers and just blocks data.
Certainly my last employer was more permissive.

I tried hand-coding into /etc/inet/hosts 192.9.164.66 pkg-
orcl-1.sun.com pkg.oracle.com
and Update Manager tries "Refreshing catalog solaris", but never
succeeds, presumably because
it isn't using the company's proxy.

Last, after both the hand-coding of pkg.oracle.com, setting http_proxy
on the command-line,
and launching it:
/usr/bin/gksu /usr/bin/pm-updatemanager
It finally talks to oracle.com. Only to say No Updates Available.
Well, at least I can figure out how to gui-grab gcc, cmake, and
filebench.

- Scott

[Heinz Müller]

Thanks! Works now!

Is it possible to retrieve all other group packages with a shell command?

[Sami Ketola]

Heinz Müller <onkel...@mscologne.de> wrote:
> Is it possible to retrieve all other group packages with a shell command?

Yes. You should look for the group/system meta packages:

pkg list -n group/system/\*

Sami