Installing to an NFS-Mounted Filesystem

To install the Oracle Solaris Studio software on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the installer on a supported system regardless of where the NFS partition is mounted. In the following procedure, the server is the machine with the physical disk on which the installed software will reside, and the client is the machine on which you run the installer and which NFS-mounts the filesystem from the server.

After mounting the filesystem you can install the Oracle Solaris Studio product on the server by running the graphical user interface (GUI) installer or non-GUI installer on the client machine. You would specify the directory on which you mounted the filesystem as the installation directory for the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 software.

After you have installed the software, any machine that is running the Oracle Solaris 10 OS can mount the filesystem from the server on which you installed the software, and run the software. Each client machine that runs the software must have the required OS patches installed (see Appendix D, Patch Identification Numbers and Descriptions). You can install the patches using the install_patches utility (see Installing the Required Oracle Solaris OS Patches.

To uninstall Oracle Solaris Studio software installed on an NFS-mounted filesystem, you must run the uninstaller on the same client machine you used to install the software, and you must mount the filesystem prior to running the uninstaller.

To Prepare for Installing the Oracle Solaris Studio Software on an NFS-mounted Filesystem

1. On the server machine, share the filesystem with the appropriate options. It is essential that root on the client machine on which the installer will be run have full access to the NFS filesystem:

   share -F nfs -o root=client-machine,rw filesystem

2. On the client machine, mount the shared filesystem with read/write access:

   mount server-machine:filesystem installation-directory