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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Overall Planning of an Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
Installing or Upgrading the Oracle Solaris Software Task Map
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Performing an Initial Installation or an Upgrade
Choosing an Oracle Solaris Installation Method
3. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade Information
4. Gathering Information Before an Installation or Upgrade
5. ZFS Root File System Installation Planning
6. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
7. Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System
8. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
This chapter provides you with information about decisions you need to make before you install or upgrade the Oracle Solaris OS. This chapter contains the following sections:
Installing or Upgrading the Oracle Solaris Software Task Map
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Note - Starting with the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release, only a DVD is provided. Oracle Solaris Software CDs are no longer provided.
Note - This book uses the term slice, but some Oracle Solaris documentation and programs might refer to a slice as a partition.
x86: To avoid confusion, this book distinguishes between x86 fdisk partitions and the divisions within the Oracle Solaris fdisk partition. The x86 fdisk divisions are called partitions. The divisions within the Oracle Solaris fdisk partition are called slices.
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