Solaris 8 4/01 What's New

Chapter 3 What's New for Installation

This chapter highlights new installation features in the Solaris 8 Update releases. For further information on these features, see the Solaris 8 Installation Supplement.


Note –

For the most current man pages, use the man command. The Solaris 8 Update release man pages include new feature information not found in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection.


Table 3–1 Solaris 8 Features for Installation

Description 

First Released 

Installing 

The Web Start Flash installation feature enables you to create a single reference installation of the Solaris operating environment on a machine and then replicate that installation on several machines. 

4/01 

The system identification utilities automatically attempt to determine the default router during installation. 

4/01 

During system identification, the system identification utilities can configure systems to be LDAP clients. Prior Solaris releases allowed the configuration of a machine only as a NIS, NIS+, or DNS client. 

1/01 

The SolarisTM Web Start 3.0 installation method was updated to allow you to modify the selected Solaris Software Group by adding or removing software packages.

1/01 

Upgrading 

The Patch Analyzer is now available when you upgrade with the Solaris Web Start 3.0 installation method on the Solaris 8 Installation CD. The Patch Analyzer performs an analysis on your system to determine which (if any) patches will be removed or downgraded by upgrading from the Solaris 8 release to a Solaris 8 Update release.  

6/00 

Administering and Uninstalling Software 

A new version of the Solaris Product Registry tool has been released. The Solaris Product Registry 3.0 includes these new features: 

  • Ability to uninstall individual system packages.

  • All of the Solaris system products that you installed in their localized version appear in the System Software Localizations folder.

  • Registry is compatible with more installation wizards.

1/01 

Early Access 

This release includes an Early Access (EA) directory with EA software. For more information, see the README on the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD.

6/00