Planning for a Solaris Installation From CD or DVD Media (Tasks)

Chapter 1

This book describes how to use CD or DVD media to install the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on a nonnetworked system. You can install either a UFS-based file system or a ZFS-based root pool.

Note - This chapter provides planning information for installing a UFS root (/) file system and some planning information for a ZFS root pool.

For more planning information for an installation of a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 6, ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning), in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade.
If you want to install a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 3, Installing With the Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS Root Pools (Planning and Tasks).

This chapter describes the preparations for completing a successful installation, including the sections described below. The following chapter describes each step in an installation for SPARC systems and an installation for x86 systems.

System Requirements and Recommendations

This section describes system requirements to install the Solaris OS. General guidelines for planning the disk space are also provided.
Checklist for Installation

This section contains a checklist to help you gather all of the information that you need to install your system.
Where to Find Additional Installation Information

Note - This book uses the term slice, but some Solaris documentation and programs might refer to a slice as a partition. To avoid confusion, this book distinguishes between fdisk partitions (which are supported only in Solaris for x86 based systems) and the divisions within the Solaris fdisk partition, which might be called slices or partitions.

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