The installer on Solaris must open an additional window, generally for graphics. It uses the DISPLAY environment variable to tell it on which computer to open the window. If the environment variable is not set, the installer will either wait or abort after displaying:
The DISPLAY variable must be set to the IP address or name of the computer (on which the installer graphics window is to be displayed), followed by a screen address, which can be
:0.0. For example:
For example, consider a scenario where you need to install TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid on a remote Solaris machine (named
itaska). Because you have a Solaris 5.6 machine (named
alaska) that has a video card and monitor installed, you can run an X-window application on it. So you decide to telnet to
itaska from
alaska.
When you telnet to itaska, you will not get access to
itaska's monitor and will be unable to display an X-window application. That is why you must set the
DISPLAY variable, which instructs the X-server to redirect all windows to the computer set in the variable. Before doing so, the computer (specified in the
DISPLAY variable) must give permissions to share its monitor.
