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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)
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Preface

1.  Solaris Flash (Overview)

2.  Solaris Flash (Planning)

3.  Creating Solaris Flash Archives (Tasks)

Task Map: Creating Solaris Flash Archives

Installing the Master System

To Install the Master System for an Initial Installation

Creating Customization Scripts

To Create a Precreation Script

Using a Precreation Script to Create a User-Defined Archive Section

To Create a Predeployment Script

To Create a Postdeployment Script

To Create a Reboot Script

Creating a Solaris Flash Archive

To Create a Solaris Flash Archive for an Initial Installation

Creating a Solaris Flash Archive (Examples)

Creating a Solaris Flash Archive (Various Examples)

Creating a Solaris Flash Archive and Customizing Files (Examples)

To Create a Solaris Flash Differential Archive With an Updated Master Image

To Create a Solaris Flash Differential Archive by Using Solaris Live Upgrade

4.  Installing and Administering Solaris Flash Archives (Tasks)

5.  Creating and Using a Disaster Recovery Image

6.  Solaris Flash (Reference)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 3

Creating Solaris Flash Archives (Tasks)

This chapter provides the procedures for creating a Solaris Flash archive. These procedures include installing a master system and then creating a Solaris Flash archive from that master system. You can also create a differential archive if you have previously installed an archive on a clone system. When the differential archive is created, two images are compared: the unchanged master image and an updated image. The differential archive installs only the differences between the two images. Also, procedures to create scripts are provided to reconfigure or otherwise customize the archive.

For limitations when creating or installing a Solaris Flash archive, see Table 2-1.