Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Preface

This book describes how to install and upgrade the SolarisTM Operating System (OS) on both networked and nonnetworked SPARC® and x86 architecture based systems.

This book does not include instructions about how to set up system hardware or other peripherals.


Note –

This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

For supported systems, see the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.


Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the Solaris OS. This book provides both of the following types of information.

Related Books

Table P–1 lists documentation for system administrators.

Table P–1 Are You a System Administrator Who is Installing Solaris?

Description 

Information 

Do you need system requirements or high-level planning information? Or want a high-level overview of Solaris ZFSTM installations, booting, Solaris ZonesTM partitioning technology, or creating RAID-1 volumes?

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade

Do you need to install a single system from DVD or CD media? The Solaris installation program steps you through an installation. 

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Basic Installations

Do you need to upgrade or patch your system with almost no downtime? Save system downtime when upgrading by using Solaris Live Upgrade. 

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Do you need to install a secure installation over the network or Internet? Use WAN boot to install a remote client. Or, do you need to install over the network from a network installation image? The Solaris installation program steps you through an installation. 

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations

Do you need to install Solaris on multiple machines? Use JumpStartTM to automate your installation.

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations

Do you need to install or patch multiple systems quickly? Use Solaris Flash software to create a Solaris FlashTM archive and install a copy of the OS on clone systems.

Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)

Do you need to back up your system? 

Chapter 23, Backing Up and Restoring UFS File Systems (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Do you need troubleshooting information, a list of known problems, or a list of patches for this release? 

Solaris Release Notes

Do you need to verify that your system works on Solaris? 

SPARC: Solaris Sun Hardware Platform Guide

Do you need to check on which packages have been added, removed, or changed in this release? 

Solaris Package List

Do you need to verify that your system and devices work with Solaris SPARC and x86 based systems and other third-party vendors. 

Solaris Hardware Compatibility List for x86 Platforms

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

Sun Welcomes Your Comments

Sun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments and suggestions. To share your comments, go to http://docs.sun.com and click Feedback.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–2 Typographic Conventions

Typeface 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

aabbcc123

Placeholder: replace with a real name or value 

The command to remove a file is rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy that is stored locally.

Do not save the file.

Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–3 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell 

machine_name%

C shell for superuser 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell 

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser 

#