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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
Part I Overall Planning of Any Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. What's New in Oracle Solaris Installation
3. Oracle Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)
System Requirements and Recommendations
Allocating Disk and Swap Space
General Disk Space Planning and Recommendations
Disk Space Recommendations for Software Groups
Upgrading and Patching Limitations
Installing a Flash Archive Instead of Upgrading
Creating an Archive That Contains Large Files
Upgrading With Disk Space Reallocation
Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading
Backing Up And Restarting Systems For an Upgrade
Revising Security Settings After Installation
x86: Partitioning Recommendations
Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition
How to Find the Version of the Oracle Solaris OS That Your System Is Running
5. Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
6. ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)
7. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
8. Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
10. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
This chapter describes system requirements to install or upgrade to the Oracle Solaris OS. General guidelines for planning the disk space and default swap space allocation are also provided. This chapter contains the following sections: