Preliminary Tasks Before Installing An OS

Certain tasks must be done before you can install an operating system, depending on whether there is an OS already on your boot drive, or your drives are new with no previous partitions.

• If your server's boot hard disk has an operating system installed other than Solaris, you might need to erase it in order to prepare it for Solaris. See How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk.

• If your server did not come with preinstalled Solaris, you need to create a logical drive using the server HBA software, otherwise, the Solaris installation program will not be able to see the server's disk drives. See Creating a Virtual Disk

• If you are going to install your OS on a disk that is part of a RAID array, you must configure the RAID array before installing your OS. See your server's disk management documentation collection for details. See Creating a Virtual Disk.