Opensolaris boots in console mode

From Initq

This article is to assist people who have difficulty installing opensolaris on their system that boots up in console mode. After you download the Live CD from http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ you use it to boot your machine. The Install should auto login and start the install with brief questions about the system. If you are dropped to a login prompt then do the following. You will need a remote system with X windows running to perform the following steps. Any Linux/Unix system will be fine.

1. Log in as user jack and with password jack.

2. Switch over to root

$ su root
Password: opensolaris

3. Enable the service for the ssh remote login program.

# svcadm enable ssh

4. Display the IP address that is assigned by DHCP to the target system.

# ifconfig -a

5. On the remote system, open a terminal window, then type:

$ ssh -X ip-address-of-target -l jack

where ip-address-of-target is the output of the ifconfig -a command that you ran on the target system.

Running this command on the remote system opens a secure shell, enabling you to access the target system to use the GUI installer.

6. Assume the root role on the remote system.

$ su root
Password: opensolaris

7. Run the GUI installer:

# /bin/gui-install

8. After the installation completes, reboot the target system.