Answer Installation Questions

The Welcome to Trusted Solaris screen briefly appears, then the screen turns blue-gray and a Trusted Solaris Install Console is displayed in the upper left corner. Messages display in the console during installation.

The Trusted Solaris installation program is running.

• If you are installing from a Trusted Solaris CDROM, the program guides you step by step through installing Trusted Solaris software; it also has online help to answer your questions.

• If you have correctly set up a custom JumpStart installation, you are not prompted for information.

• If you have correctly set up a network installation, you will be prompted for information after system identification is completed.

See Appendix D, Example Worksheets for sample answers.

Installation Program Questions

• Select a language and a locale

--------- System identification starts here---------

1. Name of workstation

2. Is it networked?

   1. Its primary network interface

   2. Its IP address

   3. Its Name Service [None for the NIS+ root master] [NIS+ for clients]

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   Caution -

   Do not choose the options Other or NIS; they do not work in the Trusted Solaris environment.

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3. On a subnet?

   1. Its subnet mask

4. Time zone

5. Date and time

--------- System identification completed ---------

--------- Searches for JumpStart scripts appear in the upper left console window ---------

1. Initial Install

   Upgrade is not supported.

2. Allocate client services?

   Allocate client services if the workstation will serve diskless clients.

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   Note -

   • For performance reasons, your NIS+ master should not serve diskless clients.

   • Diskless clients are installed using the Host Manager in the Solstice_Apps folder. See Chapter 10, Configuring Diskless Clients.

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3. Select the languages that can be displayed onscreen.

4. Software group

   1. The groups Core and End User are identical in the Trusted Solaris environment.

   2. Select To Include Solaris 64-bit support

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      Note -

      The 64-bit system will be installed, but your system will boot 32-bit if the Flash PROM needs to be upgraded.

      • See "Updating the Flash PROM on the Ultra 1, Ultra 2, Ultra 450, and Sun Enterprise 450 Systems" in Solaris 7 8/99 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for how to upgrade the Flash PROM. You do not need to install the Solaris 7 environment for the PROM upgrade; install the Trusted Solaris 7 environment.

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5. Customize the installation?

6. Disks to use.

   1. Preserve the format of any of the disks?

   2. Auto-layout file system?

      1. Which file systems to auto-layout?

   3. Customize the size of the partitions? YES, see "Disk Partitioning Hints".

7. Begin installation.

8. Reboot?

   After you provide the requested information to the installation program, the actual installation takes from 30 to 60 minutes. The speed of your medium: CDROM, diskette, or net, determines the installation time.

Disk Partitioning Hints

On all workstations, for audit records...

-- Create at least one audit partition named /etc/security/audit/workstation_name.

On all workstations, for users who can assume a role...

-- Create sufficient swap space.

-- Swap space that is double the size of the workstation's memory is a good rule of thumb.

On a standalone system that will be the home directory server...

-- Create an /export/home partition large enough for the users' home directories.

On a standalone system that will not be a home directory server...

-- Create a small /export partition to hold some temporary configuration files. It also serves as a mount point.

On an OS server...

-- Allocate enough space for the clients' root and swap. See the sample worksheet, "OS Server Installation Program Example"

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Note -

When you install an OS server, you allocate the disk space that is required for the clients that that server will support. Then, after the OS server is installed, you configure the clients (Chapter 10, Configuring Diskless Clients).

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