Installing WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on Solaris 9
 Technote (troubleshooting)
 
Problem(Abstract)
During installation of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on Sun Solaris 9 the prereq checker runs and the following message appears:

Operating System Level Check:

A supported operating system was not detected.
Installation may not be successful.
 
Cause
The message appears because Solaris 9 was not supported with WebSphere 5.0. Solaris 9 is supported since PTF2 (WebSphere 5.0.2), but you must install version 5.0 before you can install PTF2.
 
Resolving the problem
Here is the workaround to get WebSphere 5.0 installed on Solaris 9.
1. You must edit the file $InstallDir/waspc/prereqChecker.xml for Base and Enterprise before starting the installation.

2. Locate osLevel tag for "Solaris8", and add an entry for Solaris 9 after the end-osLevel tag for Solaris 8:
<osPlatform type="solaris">

<osLevel version="5.8" checkId="solaris8" category="osversion" displayName="Solaris 8">
<osPatch name="108940" displayName="Patch 108940-14" version="14" checkByDefault="yes" description="Motif 2.1 patch: available soon from SunSolve"/>
<osPatch name="108652" displayName="Patch 108652-27" version="27" checkByDefault="yes" description="X11 6.4.1 Xsun patch"/>
<osPatch name="108921" displayName="Patch 108921-11" version="11" checkByDefault="yes" description="CDE 1.4: dtwm patch"/>
<osPatch name="109147" displayName="Patch 109147-16" version="16" checkByDefault="yes" description="Linker patch: required for messaging"/>
</osLevel>

<osLevel version="5.9" checkId="solaris9" category="osversion" displayName="Solaris 9">
</osLevel>

</osPlatform>
 
Related information
Installing WebSphere 5.0.2 on Solaris 9
 
 
Cross Reference information
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Document Information


Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > Install
Operating system(s): Solaris
Software version: 5.0
Software edition:
Reference #: 1114000
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Jul 2, 2003