Booting a System Running the Solaris x86 Platform Edition

You can access the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant for booting a system running the Solaris x86 Platform Edition in the following ways:

• If your system's BIOS supports booting from a DVD or a CD, you can boot from the Solaris 9 DVD, the Solaris 9 Installation CD, or the Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD. The following information provides additional details about booting from a CD or a DVD:

  • If you have a DVD drive, boot from the Solaris installation DVD.

  • If you have a CD drive, consider the following:

    • If your system's BIOS or SCSI controller supports logical block addressing (LBA), you can boot from any Solaris installation CD.

    • If your system does not support LBA, you must boot from the Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD.

      For more information about LBA, see “Planning for a Solaris Installation or Upgrade (Overview)” in Solaris 9 Installation Guide.

• If your system supports the Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE), you can boot from a net installation image of the Solaris release.

• You can boot from a diskette by doing one of the following:

  • Download and copy the Device Configuration Assistant software from the Solaris Developer Connection at http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/dca_diskettes.

  • Copy the Device Configuration Assistant software from the Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition DVD or the Solaris 9 Software 2 of 2 x86 Platform Edition CD by using the procedure in “Copying the Boot Software to a Diskette” in Solaris 9 Installation Guide.