Installation Differences

Installation on most hardware is identical to Solaris 8 installation. Trusted Solaris 8 supports the name services that are fully supported in the Solaris 8 6/00 and Solaris Management Console 2.0 releases. The following lists the exceptions:

• Solaris Web Start is not supported

• Upgrade is not supported. However, administrators who want to retain Trusted Solaris database information (tsoluser, tsolprof, tnrhdb, tnrhtp) should back up these files. The files whose format and names have changed (tsoluser and tsolprof), should be converted on a Trusted Solaris 7 system before installing Trusted Solaris 8. See the URL http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/trustedsolaris/ts_tech_faq/ for the tsolconvert utility and procedure.

• The second installation CD-ROM is displayed in a text-only interface.

• The Solaris Management Console requires that the install team allocate approximately 148MB more swap to the host running the console. For example, if the previous swap was 256MB, the Trusted Solaris 8 swap should be at least 404MB.

• Installing and configuring the Sun Enterprise^TM 10000 (E10000) is modified for Trusted Solaris security. See Trusted Solaris 8 Installation and Configuration on the Sun Enterprise 10000 for explanation and procedures.

To distribute a site label encodings file during installation in Trusted Solaris 8 requires a customized JumpStart installation that calls a site-created script to install the file at admin_high.