How This Book Is Organized

This section describes the chapters in this book.

Chapter 1, Getting Started defines terms used in this book and describes how to plan and set up for the installation process.

Chapter 2, Using Solaris Web Start describes how to use Solaris Web Start to configure your system and install the Solaris software.

Chapter 3, Preserving Existing Operating Systems and User Data describes how to use the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program to create an fdisk partition for Solaris software and consequently preserve other existing operating systems and user data on a disk.

Chapter 4, Upgrading a System discusses how to back up and plan for upgrading a system and how to set up, configure, and upgrade Solaris on a system. It also describes how to clean up after upgrading a system.

Chapter 5, Adding and Removing Software After Installing Solaris 8 describes how to add and remove individual software packages after installing the Solaris software.

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting describes some of the problems you may encounter during installation and provides possible solutions.

Appendix A, Packages on the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD provides a brief description of each software package included on the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD.

Appendix B, Packages on the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD provides a brief description of each software package included on the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD.

Appendix C, Packages on the Solaris 8 Languages Intel Platform Edition CD provides a brief description of each software package included on the Solaris 8 Languages Intel Platform Edition CD.