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Solaris 8 2/02 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware

Chapter 1 Late-Breaking News

This manual provides the following information:

This manual supplements the Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Hardware Platform Guide and the Solaris 8 2/02 Release Notes.

Release Notes Update

New information that becomes available between the time this document goes to press and the release of the SolarisTM 8 2/02 operating environment is available in the online release notes at the following URL:

http://docs.sun.com

Solaris 8 Adoption Service

SunTM Support Services offers a fully scalable suite of services designed to meet the needs of any enterprise. These new Solaris Adoption Services help meet the evaluation, application fitness, implementation, and adoption needs of customers looking to upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment. These services are complemented with Web-based resources including an online interactive technical support site, SunSolveSM knowledge database, technical news groups, and FAQs that provide any customer with anytime, anywhere help. For more information, please visit the Web site at:

http://www.sun.com/sysadmin/solaris8adoption

Unbundled Product Support

Although the Solaris 8 2/02 software is designed and tested to be compatible with previous releases, some applications may not be fully ABI-compliant. Contact the supplier of the unbundled product directly for information about compatibility.

If you are upgrading from an existing version of Solaris software and have installed unbundled products, either from Sun or from a different company, you must ensure that all those products are supported on the Solaris 8 2/02 operating environment prior to upgrading. Depending on the status of each unbundled product, you have three options for each unbundled product:

For additional information contact the supplier of the unbundled product or your service provider or go to:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pubpatch

Documents on the Software Supplement for the Solaris 8 2/02 Operating Environment CD

Note –

In this document, the CD labeled “Software Supplement for the Solaris 8 2/02 Operating Environment” is called the “Supplement CD”.

Table 1–1 lists the documents available on the Supplement CD that are not included in AnswerBookTM or man page collections:

Table 1–1 Documents on the Supplement CD

Path 

Comment 

Docs/README_en.html

Readme file for Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Supplement CD 

Docs/HWPG/HWPG_en.ps

Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Hardware Platform Guide

Docs/dmfe.ps

Platform Notes: The dmfe Fast Ethernet Device Driver

ShowMeTV_1.3/Docs/UserGuide/UG_en.ps

ShowMe TV™ 1.3 User's Guide

SunForum_3.1/Docs/sunforumUG.ps

SunForum™ User's Guide

Note –

The _en indicates an English language document. Other languages may be indicated, depending on locale.

The Supplement CD also contains other documentation in AnswerBook packages and in man page packages. The documentation in AnswerBook packages can only be read through the AnswerBook2™ server software provided on the Solaris Documentation CD. Documents in the man page packages can only be read through the man command. Refer to the Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for details on installing these packages from the Supplement CD.

Flash PROM Update for 64-Bit Operations

Some sun4u systems need to be updated to a higher level of OpenBoot™ firmware in the flash PROM before they can run the 64-bit mode of the Solaris 8 2/02 operating environment. Systems that can only run the 32-bit mode (such as those in the sun4d and sun4m platform groups) do not require updated firmware to run Solaris 8 2/02 software.

The only systems that may require this flash PROM update are the following:

See the Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for instructions for determining whether your system needs a flash PROM update and for instructions on performing that update.

For the Ultra and Ultra 2 systems, an antistatic wrist strap may be required for the update. If you need a wrist strap, send e-mail to strap@sun.com.

Flash PROM Update CD No Longer Included

As of Solaris 8 7/01, the Flash PROM multimedia AnswerBook CD is no longer available. Up-to-date instructions for updating flash PROM are still available in the Solaris 8 2/02 Sun Hardware Platform Guide.

Removable Media Manager Issues

The Removable Media Manager replaces the ``Open Floppy'' and ``Open CD-ROM'' options formerly found in the CDE menus and front panel. For related bug descriptions and workarounds, refer to the “Common Desktop Environment Bugs” section of “Solaris Runtime Issues” in the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 10/00 Release Notes Update on http://docs.sun.com.

Patch Enables Booting From DVD-ROM Media

The Supplement CD contains a patch that enables some DVD-ROM drives installed on Sun hardware to boot from DVD-ROM media. This patch may need to be applied to your hardware before you can boot a software product supplied on DVD-ROM.This patch updates firmware in the Toshiba 1401 DVD-ROM drive. You can find Patch 111649 on the Supplement CD in this directory:

DVD_Firmware/Patches

See the README file in this directory for instructions on installing the patch. Be sure to read and follow all the cautions and warnings in this README file before you install the patch.Patch 111649 is associated with Bug ID 4467424.

DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems (BugID 4365497)

Power management of interactive devices such as removable media is linked with power management of your monitor and the graphics card that drives your monitor. If your screen is active, devices such as the CD-ROM drive and floppy disk are kept at full-power mode. This means that if you are running a system without a monitor, these devices may go into low-power mode. If you want to restore power to the CD or floppy, simply type volcheck to cause the OS to get the latest status from each removable device.

Alternatively, you can disable power management on your system by using the dtpower GUI. Then the devices are not put into low-power mode even when on a headless system, but run at full power all the time. This is not a bug, but is the intended behavior.

Maintenance Update CD

Future updates to the Solaris operating environment might no longer include the Maintenance Update (MU) CD. The preferred mechanism for updating a Solaris release—for example, to update from the Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment to the Solaris 8 1/01 operating environment—is to use the "upgrade" mechanism (see Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide, SPARC Platform Edition, Chapter 3). The MU CD does not include all of what comprises a Solaris update, and takes longer to install than an upgrade.In cases where the MU method is still considered necessary, the MU image can be obtained from the web at:

http://sunsolve.sun.com

Installing Supplement CD Products From DVD

If you are installing Solaris using a DVD and want to install any products from the Supplement CD, select the “custom installation” option in the "Select Type of Install" window.