Installing Layered Web Start Flash Archives

The Web Start Flash installation feature provides the ability to layer Web Start Flash archives. You can create partial Web Start Flash archives to install in a variety of ways.

For example, you can create one archive that contains the Solaris operating environment files, a second archive that contains the files necessary to run a Web server, and a third archive that contains the files for an NFS server. You can install the first and second archives to one machine to create a Web server and the first and third archives to create an NFS server.

By using layered archives, you can increase the flexibility of the Web Start Flash installation while you reduce the disk space that is required to store Web Start Flash archives. When you install layered archives to a clone machine, one of the archives must contain the Solaris operating environment.

If you use layered Web Start Flash archives to install additional software onto clone machines separately from the Solaris operating environment, the Solaris package database has no record of the additional software.