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Booting from a root device |
From a UFS or Solaris Volume
Manager root device |
From an Oracle Solaris ZFS root file system |
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Booting from the network |
From SPARC ok
PROM prompt: boot net[:dhcp] or boot net[:rarp]x86: Requires a DHCP server that supports a
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot from the network. |
SPARC: boot net:dhcpx86: No change since Oracle
Solaris 10 |
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Booting (recovery) |
SPARC: Boot in failsafe mode by typing boot -F failsafe at the ok PROM
prompt. x86: Boot in failsafe mode by selecting the failsafe entry in the
GRUB menu at boot time. |
Failsafe mode is not supported on SPARC or x86
platforms. Depending on the error condition, boot in single-user mode or perform system
recovery steps. |
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Desktop environment |
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) |
Oracle Solaris Desktop (GNOME 2.30) |
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File systems (default) |
UFS and Solaris Volume
Manager root file systems |
ZFS root file system (default) |
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Installation (graphical user interface (GUI)) |
GUI installation program on DVD
or CD |
Live Media (x86 only) |
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Installation (interactive text) |
Interactive text installation and interactive text installer for ZFS root
pools |
Text installer (stand-alone and network installation) |
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Installation (automated) |
JumpStart feature of Oracle Solaris 10 |
Automated Installer
(AI) feature of Oracle Solaris 11 |
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Installation (other) |
Oracle Solaris Flash Archive installation |
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Network configuration (manual and automatic) |
ifconfigEdit /etc/hostname.* ndd
for configuring protocols |
manual mode: dladm and ipadmautomatic mode: netcfg and netadm |
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Network configuration (DHCP) |
Oracle Solaris
DHCP and other naming services |
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) DHCP and legacy Sun
DHCP |
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Network configuration (wireless) |
wificonfig |
manual: dladm and ipadmautomatic: netcfg |
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Packaging (software management) |
SVR4 package and patch commands |
Image Packaging System (IPS)
pkg(1) commands, Package Manager and Update Manager GUIs |
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Print service (default), printer configuration and administration |
LP print service, lp print commands,
Solaris Print Manager GUI |
Common UNIX Print System (CUPS), CUPS command-line tools, CUPS Print Manager
GUI |
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Security management |
root as a user account |
root as a role |
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System configuration and reconfiguration |
sysidtool, sys-unconfig, sysidconfig, and sysidcfg |
sysconfig,
System Configuration Interactive (SCI) tool, SC profiles |
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System configuration (naming services configuration) |
Configured in files within /etc and /var |
Managed
through the Service Management Facility (SMF) feature of Oracle Solaris |
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System configuration (nodename or host name) |
Edit /etc/nodename |
svccfg -s sets
the config/nodename property of the svc:system/identity:node service to the desired name.
Note - If the system
is configured to use DHCP, which is always the case when the Automatic
NCP is enabled, the SMF service property can only be set if
the DHCP server does not provide a value for the nodename/hostname option.
See nodename(4).
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System registration |
Auto Registration |
Oracle Configuration Manager |
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System upgrade and boot environment management |
lu and SVR4 package commands |
pkg commands, Package Manager,
Update Manager beadm utility for managing boot environments |
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User account management |
Solaris Management Console GUI and associated
command-line tools |
useradd, usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupmod, groupdel, roleadd, rolemod, and roledel |
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User environment management |
Korn
shell ( ksh) MANPATH variable is required |
Default shell: ksh93Default ksh path: /usr/bin/ksh; /bin/sh is
also ksh93 Default interactive shell: bash; default bash path: /usr/bin/bash MANPATH variable is no
longer required |
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