Solaris 11 Upgrade TEXT to GUI

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In this video we look at taking a text only intsall of Oracle Solaris 11 and adding the GUI to it. We will do this safely using Boot Enviorments so if we have issues with the GUI we can roll back to our saved BE. This is easy within Solaris 11 and we can make use of the ZFS filesystem that goes way beyond the capabilities of what you may expect. So first we will create an new BE with BEADM create and then mount the BE to a temporary directory and install the GUI to that BE, or snapshot of our system. We will now have two BE that we can choose to boot to, the original Solaris image and now our new GUI. When we want to test the GUI we activate the GUI BE and if that is ok we can delete or "destroy" the old BE.

[@rodriguezferr]

Excellent!! VirtualBox 7.0 VM Solaris 11.4

[@ianoelofse2553]

great instruction thank you very much!

[@Somaaliman]

Thank you for sharing your priceless knowledge!!!!

[@matthewtito]

Thaks alot .. great effort , still valuable to us in 2018

[@nelsonrannyai6910]

Thanks a lot,this was very helpful for 11.4

[@theurbanpenguin]

Thanks

[@SuganthanRaj]

very helpful.. Thanks a lot Andrew....you saved my time...

[@Cailean_MacCoinnich]

2022 Still a great video.

[@EduAldoExtreme]

thanks for the guide!, keep doing more videos!

[@1Arin]

ty so much sir. I have been using VirtualBox to get a feel of Solaris 11.2 and the Command prompt alone seemed like a huge barrier to entry. The GUI seems less imposing :)

[@theurbanpenguin]

thanks

[@juliuswilliams7256]

Very helpful Thanks Andrew

[@rmnjdd]

It was very much helpful for me, Thank you

[@bradbeckett]

Thanks. This helped a lot.

[@sealovers1374]

is solaris 11.4 live media does exists ?

[@elangomuni9097]

Thank you

[@jimmatrix7244]

How to reverse to text from GUI?

[@andreaskweyo6086]

i did that but still when i restart, it doesnt bring up the GUI

[@glorimonge]

Same here! I know its been years after this but i need help :(

[@franklister7426]

root@solaris-T2000:/system# pkg -R /mnt install babel_install
Refreshing catalog 1/1 solaris
and nothing......
lol
Was there something in a previous video that I missed ?

[@muffemod]

10 min video?