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OPENSOLARIS 2009.06 TOSHIBA NOTEBOOK AND TOSHIBA NETBOOK SOFTWARE RECOVERY GUIDE

If you experience problems with your Toshiba notebook, use this document to recover the OpenSolaris 2009.06 OS preinstalled image or the Windows XP OS.

Note – This document only includes instructions for recovering the OpenSolaris OS on a Toshiba M10, R600, and mini NB200 notebook. It also includes instructions for recovering the Windows XP OS on a Toshiba mini NB200 notebook.

To recover the preinstalled OpenSolaris software and supplementary software packages, you must reinstall the notebook.

See the following sections for more information:

How to Install the OpenSolaris 2009.06 OS From the Live CD

This procedure describes how to recreate the OpenSolaris 2009.06 software installation performed at the Toshiba factory. If you want to reinstall the notebook in a different way, see Getting Started With OpenSolaris 2009.06.

After the OpenSolaris 2009.06 OS is installed on your system, install the supplementary software packages as described in How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (CLI) or How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (GUI).

  1. 1. Insert the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Live CD that was shipped with your notebook into the CD drive, and boot.

    Press F12 to get the boot device menu, and choose the CD device.

  2. 2. Select the Installer icon from the Live CD desktop to begin installing the OpenSolaris OS on the entire disk.

    You can also access Getting Started With OpenSolaris 2009.06 by selecting the Getting Started icon from the Live CD desktop.

  3. 3. Confirm your installation choices, and click Install.

  4. 4. After the installation completes, select Reboot, and eject the Live CD from the CD drive.

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How to Recover the OpenSolaris 2009.06 OS On a Toshiba Mini NB200 Notebook From a USB Thumb Drive

  1. 1. Insert the USB thumb drive containing the OpenSolaris bootable image.

  2. 2. Turn on the system.

  3. 3. Press F12 to access the Boot Menu.

  4. 4. Select the thumb drive from the list of devices, and press Return to boot.

  5. 5. Select the keyboard layout and the desktop language.

  6. 6. Run the Install OpenSolaris application.

  7. 7. From the Select Disk page, select the internal hard drive, and then select the DOS-BIG partition.

    The default value is approximately 71.4 Gbytes.

  8. 8. Install OpenSolaris.

  9. 9. Recover the preinstalled software.

    Follow the steps listed in How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (CLI).

    Immediately following the restore operation, install the system software updates. To download the updates, ensure that your Toshiba mini NB200 notebook is connected to a wired Ethernet connection. At this point of the recovery, the wireless network is not operational.

    To install the wireless driver and to restore wireless capability to your system, use the pkg or Package Manager tool to selectively restore OpenSolaris applications.

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How to Recover the Windows XP OS on a Toshiba mini NB200 Notebook From a USB Thumb Drive

Before You Begin

  • • If restoring only the Windows XP OS, ensure that you back up any important data from the OpenSolaris partition prior to recovery. All data on the disk drive, including the installed OpenSolaris partition, is destroyed when you perform this recovery.

  • • If restoring both Windows XP and OpenSolaris 2009.06, restore Windows XP before you restore the OpenSolaris OS.

Use the backup media that you created to restore the Windows XP OS on the Toshiba mini NB200 notebook. See How to Create Backup Media for Use With a Toshiba mini NB200 Notebook.

Note – To selectively restore Windows XP drivers or applications, use the Applications Recovery disk. Run the INSTALL program from the root level of the disk.

Instead of using the following procedure, you can recover the Windows XP OS by pressing 0 (zero key) when the system is booting from the BIOS. This action invokes a special recovery mode, which is useful if you only want to recover the Windows XP OS.

  1. 1. Insert the USB thumb drive with the Windows XP system backup.

  2. 2. Turn on the system.

  3. 3. Press F12 to access the Boot Menu.

  4. 4. Select the thumb drive from the list of devices, and press Return to boot.

  5. 5. Select Yes.

    When the restore operation completes, the notebook is restored to the factory default state.

  6. 6. Press Finish.

    Your system reboots.

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How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (CLI)

This procedure shows how to use the pkg command to install software packages. For more information, see OpenSolaris 2009.06 Image Packaging System Guide. For information about using the Package Manager tool, see How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (GUI).

Note – Be sure to install all of the supplemental software components from the various repositories, instead of downloading and installing the software from other web sites.

The following lists the IPS package name associated with the software component to be installed, as well as a pointer to more information about the software component:

Software Content

Source/IPS Package

For More Information

OpenSolaris 2009.06

Live CD plus SUNWgnome-meeting

opensolaris.com/learn/

Java™ SE Kit (includes Glassfish, NetBeans™ IDE, and Sun™ Studio)

java-dev, ss-dev

java.sun.com/javase/

glassfish.dev.java.net/

netbeans.org/

developers.sun.com/sunstudio/

Web Stack

amp-dev

opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/

OpenOffice

openoffice

openoffice.org/

Sun VirtualBox

virtualbox, virtualbox/kernel

virtualbox.org/

Adobe® Flash Player

web/firefox/plugin/flash

adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Note – The software versions listed in this table are the versions that were preinstalled on the notebook. When you get these packages from the repository, you will get the latest versions available.

  1. 1. Install each package by name.

    Type the following at the command line prompt:

    $ pfexec pkg install pkg-name

    For each software package you want to install, replace pkg-name with the IPS package name associated with the software component shown in the supplemental software components table.

  2. 2. Obtain the key and certificate that are required to access the repository that holds the Sun VirtualBox and Adobe Flash Player software packages.

    The key and certificates are available when you login to the https://pkg.sun.com site.

    1. a. Register at https://pkg.sun.com to obtain your Sun Online Account and password.

    2. b. Log in to the https://pkg.sun.com site.

      The Certificate Requests page shows the https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra repository.

    3. c. Download the OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem and OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem files.

      These files are the key and certificate files, respectively.

      The following examples assume that you have downloaded these files to your desktop folder, ~/Desktop.

      Note that you can return to this site at a later time to download these files again, if needed.

    4. d. Create the directory in which to store the key and certificate.

      $ pfexec mkdir -m 0755 -p path-to-dir

      path-to-dir specifies the name of the new directory in /var/pkg. The key files are kept by reference, so if the files become inaccessible to the packaging system, you will encounter errors. In the following example, the new directory is /ssl.

      $ pfexec mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/pkg/ssl

    5. e. Save the key to the directory.

      $ pfexec mv key-file path-to-dir

      In this example, is the name of the file that was saved to your desktop and the destination path is /var/pkg/ssl.

      $ pfexec mv ~/Desktop/OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem /var/pkg/ssl

    6. f. Save the certificate to the directory.

      $ pfexec mv cert-file path-to-dir

      In this example, OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem is the name of the file that was saved to your desktop and the destination path is /var/pkg/ssl.

      $ pfexec mv ~/Desktop/OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem /var/pkg/ssl

  3. 3. Associate the key and certificate with the https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra repository.

    $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O https://pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra -k \
    /var/pkg/ssl/OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem -c \
    /var/pkg/ssl/OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem extra

  4. 4. Install the packages.

    Type the following command at the prompt:

    $ pfexec pkg install pkg-name

    For each software package you want to install from the extra repository, replace pkg-name with the associated IPS package name as shown in the supplemental software components table.

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How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (GUI)

This procedure shows how to use the Package Manager tool to install software packages. For more information, see OpenSolaris 2009.06 Image Packaging System Guide.

Note – Be sure to install all of the supplemental software components from the various repositories, instead of downloading and installing the software from other web sites.

  1. 1. Click the Add More Software icon on the desktop to start the tool.

  2. 2. Select each package that you want to install.

    For each software package that you want to install, select the IPS package name associated with the software component shown in the supplemental software components table.

    Note – The Sun VirtualBox and Adobe Flash Player software must be installed from the extra repository.

  3. 3. Click Install/Update to begin the installation.

    Follow the instructions to complete the installation.

  4. 4. (Optional) Prepare to install the Sun VirtualBox and Adobe Flash Player software packages.

    Perform Steps 2 and 3 of How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (CLI).

    Skip this step if you already have the key and certificate associated with the extra repository.

  5. 5. Select the extra software repository from the Repository menu.

  6. 6. Select the Sun VirtualBox and the Adobe Flash Player software packages from the list.

    Use the IPS package name associated with the Sun VirtualBox and Adobe Flash Player software components shown in the supplemental software components table.

  7. 7. Click Install/Update to begin the installation.

    Follow the instructions to complete the installation.

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How to Add the User Contributions Repository to the List of Repositories

The user contributions repository contains packages that users have contributed to the OpenSolaris release. Install packages from this repository either by using the pkg command or the Package Manager tool.

  • • Use the pkg command to make the repository available:

    $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib contrib

  • • Use the Package Manager tool to make the repository available:

    1. 1. Select File -> Manage Repositories.

    2. 2. Specify the URL and name of the repository.

      The URL is http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib. The name is contrib.

    3. 3. Click Add.

    4. 4. Close the Manage Repositories window.

      Package Manager will refresh its catalog of contents.

    5. 5. Select the new contribution repository from the Repository menu, and select the software to install.

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HOW TO CREATE BACKUP MEDIA FOR USE WITH A TOSHIBA MINI NB200 NOTEBOOK

This task shows you how to create backup media for your Toshiba mini NB200 notebook on either your OpenSolaris 2009.06 or Windows XP system.

  • • For OpenSolaris 2009.06. Create backup media.

    Caution – These steps will erase all data on the USB thumb drive.

    Note that this image will not include any of the preinstalled software or system software updates. For information about installing the supplemental software packages, see How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (CLI) or How to Install Supplemental Software Packages (GUI).

    1. 1. Insert a USB thumb drive that is at least 1Gbyte in size.

    2. 2. Go to Applications -> System Tools ->Create USB Recovery Drive.

    3. 3. Select the target USB device.

      An OpenSolaris 2009.06 bootable image will be created on the USB drive. When the copy completes, the window closes.

      You can use this OpenSolaris 2009.06 bootable image to reinstall OpenSolaris 2009.06 onto your system.

  • • For Windows XP. Create backup media.

    Caution – These steps will erase all data on the USB thumb drive. To back up to CD or to DVD media on the Toshiba mini NB200 notebook, you must attach a USB CD/DVD drive.

    1. 1. Go to Start menu -> All Programs -> My Toshiba -> Recovery Media Center.

    2. 2. Follow on-screen instructions to insert the backup media, and select the 8Gbyte thumb drive as the media type.

    3. 3. Determine what software to back up.

      • • To back up the entire system, select System Recovery Media.

      • • To back up only application data and drivers, select Application Discs.

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