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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)
4. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
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)
When you are adding clients for a network installation, you must know your system architecture (platform group). If you are writing a custom JumpStart installation rules file, you need to know the platform name.
Some examples of platform names and groups follow. For a full list of SPARC based systems, see Oracle Solaris Sun Hardware Platform Guide at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html.
Table 4-7 Example of Platform Names and Groups
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Note - On a running system, you can also use the uname -i command to determine a system's platform name or the uname -m command to determine a system's platform group.
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