Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 8 Software

Previous Versions of Solaris Management Console (SMC) Are Not Compatible with SMC 2.0

If you upgrade to the Solaris 8 1/01 or 4/01 operating environment and you have Solaris Management Console (SMC) 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 installed, you must uninstall SMC before you upgrade. SMC 2.0 is not compatible with any previous version of SMC. SMC may exist on your system if you installed the SEAS 2.0 overbox, the SEAS 3.0 overbox, or the Solaris 8 Admin Pack.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

Before you upgrade, run /usr/bin/prodreg and perform a full uninstall of Solaris Management Console.
If you did not uninstall SMC 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 before you upgraded you must remove all SMC 1.0, 1.0.1., or 1.0.2 packages. It is critical that you use pkgrm for package removal instead of prodreg and that the order of package removal is carefully followed. Follow these steps.
1. Become superuser
2. In a terminal window type the following command.
  # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console"
  The package names in the output will identify an SMC 1.0 package if the description does not start with "Solaris Management Console 2.0."
3. Use pkgrm to remove all instances of SMC 1.0 packages in the following order.
  
  Note –
  Do not remove any package that has "Solaris Management Console 2.0" in the description. For example SUNWmc.2 might indicate SMC 2.0.
  
  Note –
  If the pkginfo output displays multiple versions of SMC 1.0 packages, use pkgrm to remove both packages, beginning with the original package and then the package that has been appended with a number. For example, if the SUNWmcman and SUNWmcman.2 packages appear in the pkginfo output, first remove SUNWmcman and then SUNWmcman.2. Do not use prodreg.
  # pkgrm SUNWmcman # pkgrm SUNWmcapp # pkgrm SUNWmcsvr # pkgrm SUNWmcsvr # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmcsws
4. In a terminal window type the following command.
  # rm -rf /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmcapp
SMC 2.0 should now function. For future maintenance, or if SMC 2.0 does not function properly, it is recommended to remove SMC 2.0 and re-install it by following the next steps.
1. In a terminal window type the following command.
  # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console"
  The package names in the output will identify the remaining SMC packages installed on your system.
2. Use pkgrm to remove all Solaris Management Console 2.0 packages in the following order.
  
  Note –
  If there are multiple instances of SMC 2.0 packages, such as SUNWmc and SUNWmc.2, first remove SUNWmc, and then SUNWmc.2. Do not use prodreg.
  # pkgrm SUNWdclnt # pkgrm SUNWmga # pkgrm SUNWmgapp # pkgrm SUNWmcdev # pkgrm SUNWmcex # pkgrm SUNWwbmc # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmccom
3. Insert the Solaris 8 Software (SPARC Platform Edition) 1 of 2 CD into your cdrom drive and type the following in a terminal window.
  # cd /cdrom/sol_8_401_sparc/s0/Solaris_8/Product # pkgadd -d . SUNWmccom SUNWmcc SUNWmc SUNWwbmc SUNWmcex SUNWmcdev SUNWmgapp SUNWmga SUNWdclnt
All previous versions of SMC are now removed and SMC 2.0 will be functional.

Locale Installation Mechanism Change

The locale support installation mechanism has changed in the Solaris 8 operating environment. In the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments, the level of locale support installed depended on the software cluster chosen. The Solaris 8 operating environment includes a new installation interface that prompts you to select specific geographic regions for which you require locale support. Therefore, you can customize the configuration of your system at installation of the Solaris 8 operating environment with more freedom than in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.

Notice especially the following behaviors:

You must select the locales to be installed during the initial installation in the Geographic Selection screen. C (POSIX locale) and en_US.UTF-8 (Unicode support) are the only locales that are automatically installed.
When you upgrade from previous releases, some of the locales are automatically selected depending on the available locales on the system to be upgraded. Note that English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish partial locales were always present on the system in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.
Unicode locales (UTF-8) have a feature to enable multilingual text input. Because these locales use Asian input methods that are provided by each individual locale, install those Asian locales for which you need to type text.