How Zones Are Installed

The ipkg brand installer supports installing the zone by using either of the following methods:

The default repository, the solaris publisher.

Zones software is minimized to start. However, a full rather than minimized zone can be produced by installing an incorporation. Although not exactly the same as the SVR4 package metacluster idea of installing "everything," because IPS has different concepts, this method provides a way to install more packages during initial zone configuration. For example, the redistributable incorporation includes most of the software available in the repository and consumes approximately 9.5 gigabytes of disk space:
```
global# zoneadm -z my-zone install -e redistributable
```
To install the same set of software that is installed on a standard system, use the approximately 3–gigabyte slim_install incorporation with the -e option.

See How to Install a Configured Zone for instructions.
An image of an installed system running the Oracle Solaris release.

The system image can be a cpio(1) archive or a pax(1) xustar archive. The cpio archive can be compressed with the gzip or bzip2 utilities. The image can also be a path to the top level of a system's root tree, or a pre-existing zone path.

To install the zone from a system image, either the -a or -d option is required. If neither the -a or -d option is used, the zone is installed from the software repository.

The installer options are shown in the following table. See How to Install a Configured Zone for example command lines.

Option	Description
`-a` `archive`	The path to a `cpio` or `pax` "xustar" archive of an installed system. `cpio` archives can be compressed using `gzip` or `bzip`. The `-d` and the `-a` options are incompatible.
`-c` `certificate`	The path to the certificate file needed for accessing the repository.
`-d` `path`	The path to the root directory of an installed system. If `path` is a hyphen (`-`), the `zonepath` is assumed to be already be populated with the system image. The `-d` and the `-a` options are incompatible.
`-e` `package_name`	The name of a package to install into the zone. The `-e` option is used to specify an additional package to install, in addition to the base set of software which is always installed into the zone. Multiple `-e` options can be used.
`-k` `key_file`	The path to the key file needed for accessing the repository.
`-P` `publisher=uri`	The name of a software repository publisher and its associated URI to use to install the zone instead of the default global zone's repository.
`-p`	Preserve system identity after installing the zone. The `-p` and the `-u` options are incompatible.
`-s`	Install silently. The `-s` and the `-v` options are incompatible.
`-u`	`sys-unconfig` the zone after installing it. The `-p` and the `-u` options are incompatible.
`-v`	Verbose output from the install process. The `-s` and the `-v` options are incompatible.

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