- 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
- Solaris Web Start 3.0 Bugs 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 Installation Mechanism Change
- Do Not Use a UTF-8 Locale When Installing the Solaris 8 or Solaris 8 6/00 Operating Environment
- 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 a Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation
- Installation Bugs That Occur During a Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation or a Network 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 a File System Is Created (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)
- Upgrade Issues
- Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
- Upgrade From Solaris 8 Using the Installation CD Fails (4313749)
- Obsolete Files in SUNWpmi and SUNWxwpls Are Not Removed When Upgrading From the Solaris 7 11/99 Operating Environment to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4313654)
- Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 Not to Work (4274920)
- SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
- Localization Bugs
- Error Messages May Occur During European Upgrade (4230247, 4225787)
- Some Error Messages and Dialog Boxes Are Not Localized and Display Only in English (4283839, 4331185)
- Installation of European Software (4299758)
- Swedish Locale: Dialog Boxes Displayed During Installation Are Not Localized (4300655)
- Solaris Web Start 3.0 Does Not Specify CD Titles in French Locale (4333007)
- French and Italian Installation 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
- CDE Workspace Manager Fails When Selecting dtmail Options Menu Twice in Succession (4336922)
- OpenWindows File Manager Fails to Mount Floppy Disk (4329368)
- Cannot Open CDE File Manager After Closing Removable Media Manager (4331909)
- PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
- PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
- System Administration Bugs
- Java Runtime Issues
- Java Runtime Bugs
- Performance Issue
- AnswerBook2 Bugs
- Localization Issues
- 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 CDE Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
- CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
- Screens in Several Applications Have Not Been Localized (4301212, 4299487, 4327983, 4329376, 4332309)
- Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
- Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled in the Italian Locale (4303549)
- Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
- SEAM Application Displays Messages That Are Not Localized (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)
- Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
- Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
- Current Release
- Future Releases
- Solstice AdminTool
- Solstice Enterprise Agents
- XIL
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
- JDK 1.1.x and JRE 1.1.x
- SUNWrdm
- 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
- Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
- Documentation Errata
- Documents Affected: "Adaptec AHA-2940AU, 2940U, 2940U Dual, 2940UW, 2940UW Dual, 2940U2, 2940U2B, 2940U2W, 2944UW, 2950U2B, 3940AU, 3940AUW, 3940AUWD, 3940U, 3940UW, 3944AUWD, 3950U2B HBAs" in the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide, adp(7D) and cadp(7D) in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection , and What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
- Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide
- 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)
- Document Affected: "Mobile IP Mobility Agent Status" and "Displaying Mobility Agent Status" in Mobile IP Administration Guide
- Document Affected: "Managing Mobile IP" and "Deploying Mobile IP" in Mobile IP Administration Guide
- Document Affected: sdtgwm(1) man page (4330198)
- Document Affected: Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide (4296336)
- Document Affected: Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide (4326607)
- Document Affected: "To Create a Boot Server on a Subnet" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide (4327931)
- Documents Affected: "Improved Removable Media Management" in Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement and "Removable Media" in Solaris 8 User Supplement
- Documentation Errata
- Chapter 6 CERT Advisories
- Appendix A Maintenance Update Patch List