Solaris 8 Installation Supplement

Chapter 2 Installing a Solaris 8 Update Release

This chapter provides additional information about installing a Solaris 8 Update release. For complete installation instructions, refer to Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide, Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide, or Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide.

IA: LBA Required When Using the Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation Method

If you want to use the Solaris 8 Web Start 3.0 installation method on the Solaris 8 Installation CD to install or upgrade, the BIOS and SCSI driver for the default boot disk must support Logical Block Addressing (LBA). LBA allows the machine to boot beyond the 1024 cylinder limit and across Solaris disk slices.

If the default boot disk BIOS and SCSI driver do not support LBA, use the Solaris 1 of 2 CD to install or upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment.

LDAP Configuration During System Identification

The system identification utilities were updated in the Solaris 8 1/01 software release.

Prior to the Solaris 8 1/01 software release, the system identification utilities were able to configure a system only as a Network Information Service (NIS) client, a NIS+ client, or a Domain Name Service (DNS) client. These utilities are now also able to configure a system as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client. You can specify that the system is to be an LDAP client interactively or through the sysidcfg file. Currently, you cannot specify LDAP through the add_install_client command.

The system identification utilities automatically attempt to determine configuration information by using data from a variety of sources. The utilities first check for a sysidcfg file. If they cannot find the needed information in the sysidcfg file, the utilities automatically attempt to detect the data by using the network. In name service configuration, the system identification utilities automatically attempt to locate a name service, unless the name service type and configuration are specified in the sysidcfg file. The utilities first attempt automatically to detect a NIS+ server. If a NIS+ server is not found, they check for a NIS server. If a NIS server is not found, the utilities interactively query for the configuration information. Currently, the utilities cannot automatically detect an LDAP or a DNS server.

Preconfiguring With the `sysidcfg` File

This section supplements "Guidelines for Preconfiguring With the sysidcfg File" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide.

The sysidcfg file preconfigures system identification information through a set of keywords that specify the pieces of information you want to preconfigure. The name_service keyword has been augmented to allow the specification of LDAP as an available name service. This augmented keyword is described in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1 name_service Keyword


Configuration Information	Platform	Keywords	Where to Find Values/Example
Name service, domain name, name server	All	`name_service=NIS, NIS+, DNS, LDAP, NONE`
		`Options for NIS and NIS+: {domain_name=domain_name` `name_server=hostname`(`ip_address`)}	`name_service=NIS {domain_name=west.arp.com name_server=timber(129.221.2.1)}` `name_service=NIS+ {domain_name=west.arp.com name_server=timber(129.221.2.1)}`
		`Options for DNS: {domain_name=domain_name` `name_server=ip_address`,`ip_address`, `ip_address` (three maximum) `search=domain_name`,`domain_name`,`domain_name`,`domain_name`,`domain_name`, `domain_name` (six maximum, total length less than or equal to 250 characters)`}`	`name_service=DNS {domain_name=west.arp.com name_server=10.0.1.10,10.0.1.20 search=arp.com,east.arp.com}` Note - Choose only one value for `name_service`. Include either, both, or neither of the `domain_name` and `name_server` keywords, as needed. If neither keyword is used, omit the curly braces {}.
		`Options for LDAP: {domain_name=domain_name` `profile=profile_name` `profile_server=ip_address`}	`name_service=LDAP {domain_name=west.arp.com profile=default profile_server=129.221.2.1}`

Custom Package Selection With Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation

This section supplements Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide and Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide.

The Solaris Web Start 3.0 installation method was updated at the Solaris 8 1/01 release to include custom package selection during installation or upgrade.

In prior releases of the Solaris 8 operating environment, when using the Solaris Web Start 3.0 installation method to install or upgrade, you could not customize the Solaris Software Group that you selected to install. The Solaris Web Start 3.0 utility included with the Solaris 8 1/01 release enables you to modify the selected Solaris Software Group by adding or removing software packages. When selecting which packages to add or remove, you need to know about software dependencies and how Solaris software is packaged.

Note -

Normally, you do not need to customize the Solaris installation by selecting to add or remove packages. Install the default packages for the Solaris Software Group.