Solaris11 - Installation and Repository Creation

Creating Solaris 11 Virtual Machine

Install SOLARIS 11

                                                 Disk Configuration

                                                
                                                Network Configuration

                                                Time Zone

 Install Virtual Box Guest Additions

 Configure Solaris 11 Repository

-- Create directories

# mkdir /ipsrepo

# mkdir /repoiso

-- join the two files (ISO) using "cat"

# cat sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-a sol-11_1-repo-full.iso-b > /repoiso/sol-11_1-repo-full.iso

-- Copy the Repository Files

# mount -F hsfs /repoiso/sol-11_1-repo-full.iso /sol11repo

# rsync -aP /sol11repo/ /ipsrepo

# pfexec pkg set-publisher -G '*' -M '*' -g /net/Solaris111/ipsrepo/repo/ solaris

-- Install Packages

# pkg install solaris-desktop

# pkg install solaris-large-server

-- reference

   * http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28985/copyrepo1.html