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Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

To Test a Profile

  1. Locate a system on which to test the profile that is the same type of platform (SPARC or IA) for which the profile was created.

    If you are testing an upgrade profile, you must test it on the actual system that you intend to upgrade.

  2. Use the decision table below to determine what to do next.

    If you 

    Then 

    Need to test an initial installation profile and have a system running Solaris 8 

    Become superuser on the system and go to Step 9.

    Need to test an upgrade profile, or you don't have a system running Solaris 8 to test an initial installation profile  

    Go to Step 3.

  3. Boot the system from a Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD image, either from the system's local CD-ROM drive or from an install server.

    Chapter 5, Using the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program contains additional information about booting a system.

    Note -

    If you are testing an upgrade profile, boot the system that you are going to upgrade.

  4. If prompted, respond to the system identification questions.

  5. If you are presented with a choice of installation methods, select Solaris Interactive Installation.

  6. Exit from the first screen of the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program.

    After the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program exits, a shell prompt is displayed.

  7. Create a temporary mount point:


    # mkdir /tmp/mnt

  8. Mount the directory that contains the profile(s) you want to test:

    If you want to 

    Then type 

    Mount a remote NFS file system (for systems on the network) 

    		 

    mount -F nfs server_name:path /tmp/mnt

    Mount a UFS-formatted diskette 

    		 

    mount -F ufs /dev/diskette /tmp/mnt

    Mount a PCFS-formatted diskette 

    		 

    mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /tmp/mnt

  9. To test the profile with a specific system memory size, set SYS_MEMSIZE to the specific memory size in Mbytes: 


    # SYS_MEMSIZE=memory_size
# export SYS_MEMSIZE

  10. Did you mount a directory in Step 8?

    • If yes, change directory to /tmp/mnt:


      # cd /tmp/mnt

    • If no, change directory to where the profile is located, which is usually the JumpStart directory:


      # cd jumpstart_dir_path

    Caution - Caution -

    In the following step, you must include the -d or -D option (represented by disk_configuration), or pfinstall actually uses the profile you specify to install Solaris 8 and subsequently overwrites all the data already on the system.

  11. Test the profile with the pfinstall(1M) command:


    # /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall disk_configuration [[-c path]] profile

Example-Testing a Profile

The following example shows how to use pfinstall to test a profile named basic_prof against the disk configuration on a system on which Solaris 8 is installed. The basic_prof profile is located in the /jumpstart directory, and the path to the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD image is specified because Volume Manager is being used.


# cd /jumpstart
# /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -D -c /cdrom/pathname basic_prof

The following example shows how to use pfinstall to test the profile named basic_prof on a Solaris 8 system against the 535_test disk configuration file and 64 Mbytes of system memory. This example uses a Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition or Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD image located in the /export/install directory.


# SYS_MEMSIZE=64
# export SYS_MEMSIZE
# /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -d 535_test -c /export/install basic_prof