The Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide describes how to install and upgrade the SolarisTM 8 operating environment on both networked and non-networked SPARCTM and Intel Architecture (IA) based systems.
The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms—SPARC and IA. The information in this document pertains to both platforms unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.
This book does not include instructions about how to set up system hardware or other peripherals.
In this document, the term “IA” refers to the Intel 32-bit processor architecture, which includes the Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium II Xeon, Celeron, Pentium III, and Pentium III Xeon processors and compatible microprocessor chips made by AMD, Cyrix, and Transmeta. In this document, the term IA refers to the overall platform architecture, whereas Intel Platform Edition appears in the product name.
In this document, the term “Solaris 8 Installation CD” refers to both the Solaris 8 Installation English CD and the Solaris 8 Installation Multilingual CD.
This book is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the Solaris operating environment. This book provides both of the following types of information.
Advanced Solaris installation information for enterprise system administrators who manage multiple Solaris machines in a networked environment
Basic Solaris installation information for system administrators who perform infrequent Solaris installations or upgrades
Table P–1 lists related information that you need when you install the Solaris software.
Table P–1 Related Information
Platform |
Information |
Description |
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Describes how to back up system files |
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SPARC |
Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes |
Describes any bugs, known problems, software that is being discontinued, and patches that are related to the Solaris release |
Contains information about supported hardware |
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IA |
Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide |
Contains device configuration information |
Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List |
Contains supported hardware information |
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Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes |
Describes any bugs, known problems, software that is being discontinued, and patches that are related to the Solaris release |
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The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P–2 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 | Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
To delete a file, type rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized. |
Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. |
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–3 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell prompt | machine_name% |
C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |