- Book Information
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Installation Issues
- Solaris Web Start 3.0 Issues You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
- Issues You Need to Know About Before Starting an Interactive Installation From the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 CD
- Locale Install Mechanism Change
- Do Not Install a Large Partition on Systems That Already Have symhisl, mega, or cpqncr Disk Controller Drivers Installed
- Update the DPT PM2144UW Controller BIOS to the Latest Revision Before Upgrading to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
- Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled on PCI-IDE Systems
- Bugs You Need to Know About Before the Start of an Interactive Installation
- Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
- ddi: net: x86 Network Boot Only Works on First Network Interface of a Given Type (1146863)
- Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
- Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
- No Error Occurs If # Is Included In A Path (4294586)
- Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
- Wizard Stops If You Insert the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD When the 1 of 2 CD Is Requested (4306752)
- An Arithmetic Exception Occurs When a Zip Drive is Attached With No Media in a Drive (4307035)
- Upgrade Issues
- Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
- Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Not Work (4274920)
- Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)
- SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
- Localization Bugs
- Some Error Messages and Dialogs Are Not Localized and Display Only in English (4283839)
- Installation Of European Software (4299758)
- Swedish Locale: Unlocalized Dialogs Are Displayed During Installation (4300655)
- French and Italian Install Wizards May Display {0} Instead of the CD Title (4302549)
- Motif suninstall Fails in de_AT.ISO8859-15 and fr_BE.ISO8859-15 Locales (4305420)
- German Locale: Add and Cancel Buttons in the Proxy Kiosk Screen are Labeled as Undefined (4306260)
- Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
- Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
- Common Desktop Environment Bugs
- File System Bugs
- System Administration Bugs
- Java Runtime Issues
- Java Runtime Bugs
- Performance Issue
- AnswerBook2 Bugs
- Localization Bugs
- Some Greek Characters Are Not Available in CDE (4179411)
- Cannot Print Extended Characters in Calendar Manager in All Partial Locales (4285729)
- Cutting and Pasting Text Between Arabic and UTF-8 English Does Not Work (4287746)
- The Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
- CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
- Option on the Right-Click Desktop Menu in SmartCard Is Not Supported (4301544)
- Screens in Several Applications Have Not Been Localized (4301212, 4299487)
- Cannot Read Arabic Messages Correctly When Using dtmail Between the Solaris Operating Environment and Microsoft Windows (4301870)
- Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
- Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled (4303549)
- Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
- Use Font Downloader to Print From Any Non-ISO8859-1 Locale (4304493)
- Unlocalised Messages Displayed in SEAM Application (4306619)
- The Euro Currency Symbol Is Not Adequately Supported in the UTF-8 and Greek Locales (4306958, 4305075)
- Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
- Hexadecimal Support No Longer Works Correctly in dtcalc With Swedish Localization (4308864)
- Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
- Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
- Current Release
- HotJava Browser
- Solaris Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface
- Solstice AdminSuite 2.3/AutoClient 2.1
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
- F3 Font Technology
- XGL
- Derived Type paddr_t
- Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
- The sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
- Console Subsystem
- Video Cards
- Future Releases
- Solstice AdminTool
- Solstice Enterprise Agents
- XIL
- crash(1M) Utility
- Kerberos Version 4 Client
- adb(1) Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
- OpenWindows Toolkits For Developers
- OpenWindows Environment For Users
- Federated Naming Service (FNS)/XFN Libraries and Commands
- Solaris ipcs(1) Command
- Deprecate sendmail -AutoRebuildAliases Option
- devconfig
- Device Support and Driver Software
- Intel 486-Based Systems
- Current Release
- Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
- Documentation Errata
- Document Affected: "Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List" in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List
- Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List
- Documents Affected: "SCSI RAID Tape" in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide, Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List, adp(7D) in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection , What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide
- Document Affected: "Installation and Management" in What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Document Affected: What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Document Affected: "IPv6 Header Format" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
- Document Affected: "Priority Values" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
- Document Affected: "Implementing IPsec" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
- Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
- Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
- Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for rpcsec Parameters" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
- Documentation Errata
- Chapter 6 Driver Updates
- Chapter 7 CERT Advisories
- Chapter 8 Released Patches Integrated into the Solaris 8 Release