To Create a Temporary Solaris 8 Environment to Test a Profile

To test a profile for a particular Solaris release successfully and accurately, you must test a profile within the Solaris environment of the same release. For example, if you want to test a Solaris 8 initial installation profile, run the pfinstall command on a system that is running Solaris 8.

You need to create a temporary installation environment if you are testing a profile under one of the following conditions:

• You want to test a Solaris 8 upgrade profile on a system that is running a previous version of the Solaris software.

• You do not have a Solaris 8 system installed yet to test Solaris 8 initial installation profiles.

1. Boot a system from an image of one of the following:

   • Solaris 8 SPARC Platform Edition DVD

   • Solaris 8 Intel Platform Edition DVD

   • Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 SPARC Platform Edition CD

   • Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition CD

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   Note –

   If you want to test an upgrade profile, boot the system that you are upgrading.

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2. Respond to the system identification questions.

3. Select the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program as the program to install the Solaris 8 operating environment.

4. Exit the first screen that is displayed.

5. Execute the pfinstall command from the shell.