Installing the Solaris Operating System, version 8 2/02

The Solaris Operating System, version 8 2/02, must be installed on the control plane server before you can install N1 Provisioning Server software. If you are installing the image server software on a separate machine, you must also install Solaris version 8 2/02 on the image server machine before installing the N1 Provisioning Server software.

To install the Solaris software, follow the installation instructions provided with that software. To satisfy the N1 Provisioning Server requirements for the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System, you must make the following selections during the installation of the Solaris Operating System:

• Install the 64-bit version.

• Select the en_US locale.

• Set up the file partition to allocate a minimum of 8 GBytes in the root directory.

• When you are prompted to setup DNS, select NO.

• When you are prompted to setup DHCP, select NO.

• When you are prompted to select the type of configuration, select End User.

• If you are using a non-interactive JumpStart^TM installation, include the bash package SUNWbash and SUNWgzip in the profile. If you are using an interactive JumpStart or CD install, customize your configuration selection to include these packages.

• Make sure that you have installed the following packages, which are part of the end-user install:

  • SUNWbzip

  • SUNWbzipx

  • SUNWzip

  • SUNWtcsh

  • SUNWscpux

  • SUNWbtool

  • SUNWtoo

  • SUNWsprot