This book describes how to use CD or DVD media to install the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) on a nonnetworked system.
This book does not include instructions about how to set up system hardware or other peripherals.
This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.
In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:
“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.
For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.
This book is intended for system administrators who are responsible for installing the Solaris OS. This book provides basic Solaris installation information for system administrators who perform infrequent Solaris installations or upgrades.
If you need advanced Solaris installation information, see Related Books to find the book that describes the information.
Table P–1 lists related information that you need when you install the Solaris software.
Table P–1 Related Information
Information |
Description |
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This book describes how to perform a remote Solaris installation over a local area network or a wide area network. |
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Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning |
This book describes how to use CD or DVD media to upgrade a system to the Solaris OS. This book also describes how to use the Solaris Live Upgrade feature to create and maintain boot environments, and how to upgrade systems to these boot environments. |
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations |
This book describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended custom JumpStart installation. This book also describes how to create RAID-1 volumes during a JumpStart installation. |
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation) |
This book describes how to create a Solaris Flash archive and deploy the archive over the network to quickly install the Solaris OS. This book also describes how to maintain these archives, and how to quickly update clone systems by using differential Flash archives. |
This book describes how to back up system files. |
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Solaris 10 Release Notes |
This book describes any bugs, known problems, software that is being discontinued, and patches that are related to the Solaris release. |
SPARC: Solaris 10 Sun Hardware Platform Guide on http://docs.sun.com |
This book contains information about supported hardware. |
This book lists and describes the packages in the Solaris 10 OS. |
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This list contains supported hardware information and device configuration details. |
The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–2 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–3 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser |
# |
The following keyboard and mouse conventions are applicable to SPARC and x86 based systems:
The key referred to as Return is labeled Enter on some keyboards.
From left to right on a three-button mouse, the default settings for CDE are SELECT, ADJUST, and MENU. For example, the text says, “Click SELECT” instead of “Click the left mouse button.” Otherwise, these keys are referred to as mouse button 1, mouse button 2, and mouse button 3.
From left to right on a two-button mouse, the default settings are SELECT and MENU. The ADJUST function is obtained by simultaneously pressing SELECT and the Shift key on the keyboard (Shift-SELECT).