General Help for Newbie (on Solaris) ?

Is there any general help available ? I've been browsing around, but the topics are quite specific.

I did the install as specified, selecting everything (is there any package list per CD ?), started. Disk 2 was not recognized properly. What is great: I could continue with Disk 3 and 4 instead. But the installer never went back to Disk 2; 'b' brought the selection of medium and 's' enforced the reboot.

At reboot I had no top, whoami, bash, startx. How to install the content of Disk 2 ?

I tried an upgrade with Disk 1; but it (unfortunately) never went back to where I could select 'everything' (or similar); only hundreds of packages. 'OK' (F2) brought heaps of dependency problems that I could not solve.

This is about what I meant with a 'General Help' document.

I'm sorry for 'stupid' newbie questions, but the install took almost 5 hours (on an old machine), and I really don't want to start all over if not necessary.

So, one of my questions here: how can I get back to installing the content of Disk 2 as offered with the initial install ?

Thanks in advance !

[1141 byte] By [udippel] at [2007-11-26 0:46:00]
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HI,

Once you've rebooted -

1. see if you can mount the cdrom - if not, download the iso from sun's website and mount using the loopback system with the following set of commands (as root obviously)

mkdir /mnt/disk2

mount -o ro -F hsfs `lofiadm -a complete_path_of_iso` /mnt/disk2

then navigate to /mnt/mountdir

OTOH, if you can mount it, then just go to /mnt/cdrom...

2. Navigate to

/mnt/disk2/Solaris_10/Product

where u can see all the packages - use

pkgadd to install whtever u need...

btw, check ur path - maybe all those are installed...ensure u r path has

/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin

~Madhu.

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