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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Planning to Install Over the Network

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Preconfiguring System Configuration Information (Tasks)

3.  Preconfiguring With a Naming Service or DHCP

Part II Installing Over a Local Area Network

4.  Installing From the Network (Overview)

5.  Installing From the Network With DVD Media (Tasks)

6.  Installing From the Network With CD Media (Tasks)

7.  Patching the Miniroot Image (Tasks)

8.  Installing Over the Network (Examples)

9.  Installing From the Network (Command Reference)

Part III Installing Over a Wide Area Network

10.  WAN Boot (Overview)

11.  Preparing to Install With WAN Boot (Planning)

12.  Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)

Installing Over a Wide Area Network (Task Maps)

Configuring the WAN Boot Server

Creating the Document Root Directory

Creating the WAN Boot Miniroot

SPARC: How to Create a WAN Boot Miniroot

Verifying WAN Boot Support on the Client

How to Check the Client OBP for WAN Boot Support

Installing the wanboot Program on the WAN Boot Server

SPARC: How to Install the wanboot Program on the WAN Boot Server

Creating the /etc/netboot Hierarchy on the WAN Boot Server

How to Create the /etc/netboot Hierarchy on the WAN Boot Server

Copying the WAN Boot CGI Program to the WAN Boot Server

How to Copy the wanboot-cgi Program to the WAN Boot Server

How to Configure the WAN Boot Logging Server

Protecting Data by Using HTTPS

How to Use Digital Certificates for Server and Client Authentication

How to Create a Hashing Key and an Encryption Key

Creating the JumpStart Installation Files

How to Create the Flash Archive

How to Create the sysidcfg File

How to Create the JumpStart Profile

How to Create the JumpStart rules File

Creating Begin and Finish Scripts

Creating the Configuration Files

How to Create the System Configuration File

How to Create the wanboot.conf File

Providing Configuration Information With a DHCP Server

13.  SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)

14.  SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Examples)

15.  WAN Boot (Reference)

Part IV Appendixes

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

B.  Installing or Upgrading Remotely (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 12

Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)

This chapter describes the following tasks that are necessary to prepare your network for a WAN boot installation: