Installing Solaris Every once in a while -- every year or two, as it happens -- I need to install Solaris on a SPARC machine here at home. From a Linux server. This, you might think, shouldn't be too hard a thing to do. And you'd be right: it's not. What is hard to do, however, is configure your Linux server correctly, as the various scripts and whatnot that Sun provide aren't entirely suited to the GNU tools, and have a tendency to break. Not good. So, here is a shortlist of issues you may face when attempting this. Google is not always helpful, and to save me the usual three hours or so it takes to work all this lot out again from first principles, here's a list of what goes wrong, how to fix it, and how to identify the problems.
Is it a bug or a feature that the solaris iscsi initiator isn't able to connect to an iscsi target on the same machine, using either the 127.0.0.1 localhost address or the machine's own ip address?
Learn how to use the Service Management Facility -- a new, unified model for services and service management that is included in the Solaris Operating System.