Solaris Express Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade

Creating an Archive That Contains Large Files

The default copy method that is used when you create a Solaris Flash archive is the pax utility. The flarcreate command uses the pax utility to create an archive without size limitations on individual files. Individual file sizes can be greater than 4 Gbytes. The flarcreate command with the -L cpio option creates a cpio archive. This option is useful for backward compatibility.

For information about installing an archive, see the following table.

Solaris Live Upgrade 

Installing Solaris Flash Archives on a Boot Environment in Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Custom JumpStart 

To Prepare to Install a Solaris Flash Archive With a Custom JumpStart Installation in Solaris Express Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations

Solaris interactive installation 

Chapter 4, Installing and Administering Solaris Flash Archives (Tasks), in Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)

WANboot 

Chapter 12, Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks), in Solaris Express Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations