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Solaris 10 11/06 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade
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Preface
Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade
Chapter 1 Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Information
Chapter 2 What's New in Solaris Installation
What's New in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release for Installation
Enhanced Security Using the Restricted Networking Profile
Installing Solaris Trusted Extensions
Solaris Flash Can Create an Archive That Includes Large Files
What's New in the Solaris 10 1/06 Release for Solaris Installation
Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed
x86: GRUB Based Booting
Upgrade Support Changes for Solaris Releases
What's New in the Solaris 10 3/05 Release for Solaris Installation
Solaris Installation Changes Including Installation Unification
Accessing the GUI or Console-based Installations
Custom JumpStart Installation Package and Patch Enhancements
Configuring Multiple Network Interfaces During Installation
SPARC: 64-bit Package Changes
Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates New Boot Environment
Reduced Networking Software Group
Modifying Disk Partition Tables by Using a Virtual Table of Contents
x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
Chapter 3 Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)
Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Software
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Initial Installation, or Upgrade?
Initial Installation
Upgrade
Choosing a Solaris Installation Method
Planning Network Security
Restricted Security Specifics
Revising Security Settings After Installation
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8
Chapter 4 System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
System Requirements and Recommendations
Allocating Disk and Swap Space
General Disk Space Planning and Recommendations
Disk Space Recommendations for Software Groups
Upgrade Planning
Upgrade Limitations
Upgrade Programs
Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Instead of Upgrading
Creating an Archive That Contains Large Files
Upgrading With Disk Space Reallocation
Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading
Backing Up Systems Before Upgrading
Locale Values
Platform Names and Groups
x86: Partitioning Recommendations
Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition
How to Find the Version of the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running
Chapter 5 Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
Checklist for Installation
Checklist for Upgrading
Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to GRUB, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes
Chapter 6 x86: GRUB Based Booting for Solaris Installation
x86: GRUB Based Booting (Overview)
x86: How GRUB Based Booting Works
x86: GRUB Device Naming Conventions
x86: Where to Find Information About GRUB Based Installations
x86: GRUB Based Booting (Planning)
x86: Performing a GRUB Based Installation From the Network
Description of the GRUB Main Menu
Description of GRUB menu.lst File
Locating the menu.lst File to Change the GRUB Menu
Chapter 7 Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
Solaris Zones (Overview)
Upgrading With Non-Global Zones
Backing Up Your System Before Performing an Upgrade With Zones
Disk Space Requirements for Non-Global Zones
Chapter 8 Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
Why Use RAID-1 Volumes?
How Do RAID-1 Volumes Work?
Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components
State Database and State Database Replicas
RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
RAID-0 Volumes (Concatenations)
Example of RAID-1 Volume Disk Layout
Chapter 9 Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
System Requirement
State Database Replicas Guidelines and Requirements
Selecting Slices for State Database Replicas
Choosing the Number of State Database Replicas
Distributing State Database Replicas Across Controllers
RAID-1 and RAID-0 Volume Requirements and Guidelines
Custom JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade Guidelines
RAID Volume Name Requirements and Guidelines for Custom JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade
RAID Volume Naming Conventions for Solaris Live Upgrade
RAID-Volume Naming Conventions for Custom JumpStart
Guidelines for Selecting Disks and Controllers
Guidelines for Selecting Slices
Booting Into Single-User Mode Causes Mirror to Appear to Need Maintenance
Glossary
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