Solaris Installation Procedure

This sections describes Solaris 10 update 3 (11/06) installation procedure for CLON cluster (Sparc-, Xeon- and Opteron-based machines).

You will need 5 CDs 'Solaris 10 Software' (or one DVD) and one DVD 'Software Companion'. Download CDs or DVD image from http://www.sun.com. If you do not have DVD-ROM, you can mount iso image of the Companion after system itself is installed (see instructions below).

If you already have Solaris installed, type init 0 as root, and on prompt type boot cdrom. You can change boot sequence changing environment variable boot-device (setting it to cdrom disk will inforce corresponding boot sequence).

Boot from CD1. Several questions will be asked, for example for clondaq1:

 hostname: clondaq1
 IP address: 129.57.167.107
 mask: 255.255.255.0 (will be written to /etc/netmasks)
 route: 129.57.167.99 (others: 129.57.68.100, 129.57.69.1, 129.57.160.1, will be written to /etc/defaultrouter)
 services: choose DNS
 domain name: jlab.org
 DNS servers: 129.57.167.5, 129.57.167.14, 129.57.32.100
 search domain: jlab.org, acc.jlab.org (will be written to /etc/resolv.conf)

Partition disk: if only one disk exist, set 12GB for 'swap', 40GB for system '/', mount the the rest as '/space' (clon05 and others with smaller disks: 4096MB swap, 15GB /). If 2 disks exists and there is no intension to use second one, make it /space and use whole first disk for / and 12G swap. Sun has its own disk name scheme, for example c1t0d0 means ... .

Follow instructions on screen and finish installation.

NOTE: 'format' command shows all disks.

After installation is finished do following (use /opt/sfw/bin/emacs to edit files):

 /etc/default/login: comment out CONSOLE=/dev/console
 /etc/ssh/sshd_config: PermitRootLogin?: 'no' - change to 'yes'
 svcadm restart /network/ssh (to show all services, type 'svcs')

From now on 'ssh root@clonxt2' is possible from remote host.

Install software from CD 'Software Companion'. Use it's README and follow instructions. If you want to mount iso image use loopback file driver lofi, for example:

 lofiadm -a /root/sol-10-u3-companion-ga.iso /dev/lofi/1
 mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

Image will be mounted as /mnt. To unmount do following:

 umount /mnt
 lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

To configure NIS do following:

1. Create /etc/defaultdomain with one line containing 'CCCHP'

2. Add to /etc/hosts all hosts to be used in 'ypinit -c' command (see below), normally:

 129.57.167.5     clon00     clon00.jlab.org
 129.57.167.14    clon10     clon10.jlab.org
 129.57.33.22     ccs10      ccs10.jlab.org

3. Execute command domainname CCCHP (or reboot, but not necessary)

4. Execute following:

 ypinit -c
 next host to add: clon00
 clon10
 ccs10 (for EEL building put it on first place)
 svcadm enable /network/nis/client
 ypwhich - shows NIS server (must show first one in the list above)
 ypcat passwd | grep <username> - shows id/gid etc information

Edit '/etc/nsswitch.conf':

   hosts: files dns ('dns' for clon00 and clon10 only ???)
   passwd: compat
   group: files nis
   netgroup: nis
   automount: files nis

Fix accounts (can be used to add new account !):

1. /etc/passwd: fix root, add clasrun (for clon00/clon10 add also clasboot, clascron, clasmail), add last 3 lines

2. /etc/shadow: add clasrun, etc, add last line

3. mkdir /root (or 'ln' to file server; normally we have it locally); copy .cshrc file from another machine's /root directory, it must looks like following:

   #
   # .cshrc for root on clon cluster solaris machines
   #
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/opt/SUNWspro/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/opt/sfw/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/sfw/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/ccs/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/sadm/admin/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
   setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/openwin/bin
   #
   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/SUNWspro/lib
   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/sfw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/sfw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   #
   set prompt="%m:%C> "
   #
   alias ll "ls -al"
   #
   #temporary!!!
   setenv CODA /usr/local/clas/release/current/coda
   #

4. Add new groups (onliners etc): /etc/group contails group name, group id and list of group members, while /etc/passwd contains <group id ??? NO !!!>

Set automounts:

1. /etc/auto_master contents:

   /-      /etc/auto_direct
   /-      auto_direct.ep
   /u      auto.u.ep
   /w      auto.w.ep

2. /etc/auto_direct contents:

   # auto_direct (Solaris, clon10-specific)
   /home                           -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/home
   /apps                           -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/apps/SunOS_sun4u
   /usr/local/clas         -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/clas
   /usr/local/downloads    -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/downloads
   /usr/local/bin          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/bin
   /usr/local/etc          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/etc
   /usr/local/include      -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/include
   /usr/local/lib          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/lib
   /usr/local/man          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/man
   /usr/local/sbin         -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/sbin
   /usr/local/share        -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/share
   /usr/local/src          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/src
   #
   # for openssl untill installation from source will works
   /usr/local/ssl          -rw,bg  clonfs2:/vol/vol0/local/SunOS_sun4u/ssl
   #
   # for diman (see $CLON_PARMS/discr/archive /pretrigger/archive etc)
   /usr/clas/archives      -rw,bg  clonfs2:/archives
   #
   # work/scratch disks from clon00
   /work                   -rw,bg  clon00:/work
   /scratch                -rw,bg  clon00:/scratch
   #
   # clon00/clon10 specific
   /mnt/admin/clonfs2      -rw,bg  clonfs2:/
   /usr/clas/msql_run      -rw,bg  clonfs2:/msql
   #

3. Restart automount service:

 svcadm restart /system/filesystem/autofs

Reboot machine:

 reboot, or 'shutdown -g0 -i6 -y', or 'init 6' (to power down use 'init 5')
 reboot -- -r (after new hardware installation: '-r' force reconfigure, '-s' force single user mode; 'exit' from single user will continue to multiuser mode)

Install recent patches, SunStudio (without patches !).

Background information

Multiple ethernet ports setting: clon machines can be connected to the several subnets; for example clonxt2:

129.57.167.108 - clonxt2 (iprb0) - goto /etc/hosts
129.57.68.23 - clonxt2-daq1 (e1000g0) - goto /etc/hosts
129.57.69.201 - clonxt2-daq2 (e1000g1) - goto /etc/hosts

To configure do following:

1. Add all interfaces to the /etc/hosts file

2. Create /etc/hostname.e1000g0 file containing clonxt2-daq1, etc for every extra port

3. Edit file /etc/netmasks adding new line for every new port, for example:

 129.57.68.0    255.255.255.0

4. Reboot machine, or run commands:

 ifconfig e1000g1 plumb
 ifconfig e1000g1 129.57.68.23 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

To enable/disable services running under svcs just use svcadm enable/disable command. For legacy services rename corresponding script, for example to disable snmp service rename it's startup script:

 cd /etc/rc3.d
 mv S82initsma hide.S82initsma

To enable X11 forwarding make sure you have uncommented and properly set 2 following lines in /etc/ssh/ssh_config file:

Host *
ForwardX11 yes