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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris 8 Containers Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers |
1. Introduction to Solaris 8 Containers
2. Obtaining and Installing the Software
3. Assessing a Solaris 8 System and Creating an Archive
Creating the Image for Directly Migrating Solaris 8 Systems Into Zones
How to Use flarcreate to Create the Image
Other Archive Creation Methods
Setting the Machine Name to sun4u
4. Configuring a solaris8 Zone
5. Installing the solaris8 Zone
6. Booting a Zone and Zone Migration
7. About Zone Login and Post-Installation Configuration
8. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris 8 Branded Zones Problems
Examine the source system and collect needed information.
Obtain the hostname:
hostname
Obtain the host ID:
hostid
Also see Host ID Emulation.
Obtain the RPC domainname:
domainname
Obtain the root password.
View the software being run on the system:
ps -ef
Check the networking utilized on the system:
ifconfig -a
View the storage utilized, for example, by viewing the contents of /etc/vfstab.
View the amount of local disk storage in use, which determines the size of the archive:
df -k
Determine the patches that are on the system:
patchadd -p
Examine the contents of /etc/system.