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Sun Update Connection - Enterprise 1.0 Quick Start Guide: Getting Started

Operating System Requirements

The following tables show the Linux and Solaris distributions that are supported by each application and listed by hardware platform.

The following requirements are covered in this section:

Note –

The bare-metal installation (BMI) server automates Linux distributions and operating system installation on a bare-metal system. For more information, see Sun Update Connection - Enterprise Bare Metal Installation Guide.

Distributions that support an application are marked with a plus sign (+), while distributions that do not support an application are marked with a minus sign (–).

A channel is a combination of distributions and architecture.

For example, a channel would be one of the following:

The latest list can also be found at http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/enterprise/knowledge.html.

Table 2–4 Supported Channels for the 32-bit x86

Operating System or Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Red Hat 

7.2, 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0 

Not Recommended 

+

+

–

–

Fedora Core 

2 

Not Recommended 

+

+

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 

2.1 

+

+

+

–

+

3.0 

+

+

+

+

+

4.0 

+

+

+

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 

2.1 

+

+

+

–

+

3.0 

+

+

+

+

+

4.0 

+

+

+

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Server 

2.1  

+

+

+

–

–

3.0  

+

+

+

+

+

4.0  

+

+

+

–

–

SUSE Professional 

9.0 or 9.1 

+

+

+

+

+

9.2 

+

+

+

–

+

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 

8 or 9 

+

+

+

–

+

Novell Linux Desktop 

9 

+

+

+

–

+

Novell SLSS 

8 

–

+

–

–

–

Solaris Operating System 

10 

–

+

–

–

–

Table 2–5 Supported Channels for 32-bit S/390 Systems

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server [Support for this mainframe environment will be part of a future release.]

7, 8, 9, S390 

+

+

–

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server

4.0 

+

+

–

–

–

Table 2–6 Supported Channels for 64-bit S/390 Systems

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server

3.0 or 4.0 

+

+

–

–

–

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

8 or 9 

+

+

–

–

–

Table 2–7 Supported Channels for AMD64

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 

3.0 

+

+

+

–

+

4.0 

+

+

+

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Server 

3.0 

+

+

+

–

+

4.0 

+

+

+

–

–

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 

4.0 

+

+

+

–

–

SUSE Professional 

9.0 

+

+

–

–

+

9.1 

+

+

–

–

–

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 

8 or 9 

+

+

–

–

+

Table 2–8 Supported Channels for 64-bit on POWER

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 

3.0 

–

+

–

–

–

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 

9 

–

+

–

–

+

Table 2–9 Supported Channels for the 64-bit x86 (Itanium)

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Server 

3.0 

–

+

–

–

–

Table 2–10 Supported UNIX Versions on SPARC

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Solaris Operating Environment 

8 

–

+

–

–

+

9 

–

+

–

–

–

10 

–

+

–

–

+

Table 2–11 Supported Microsoft Windows Versions

Operating System /Channel 

Operating System Version 

System Dependency Server 

Agent 

Console 

BMI Server 

BMI Provision 

Windows 

2000 

–

–

+

–

–

XP 

–

–

+

–

–