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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade |
Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. What's New in Solaris Installation
Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Software
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Initial Installation, or Upgrade?
Choosing a Solaris Installation Method
4. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
5. Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to ZFS, Booting, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes
6. ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)
7. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
8. Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
10. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
This chapter provides you with information about decisions you need to make before you install or upgrade the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). This chapter contains the following sections:
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Note - Starting with the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release, only a DVD is provided. Solaris Software CDs are no longer provided.
Note - This book uses the term slice, but some Solaris documentation and programs might refer to a slice as a partition.
x86: To avoid confusion, this book distinguishes between x86 fdisk partitions and the divisions within the Solaris fdisk partition. The x86 fdisk divisions are called partitions. The divisions within the Solaris fdisk partition are called slices.