- Book Information
- About This Book
- Chapter 1 Overview of Installing Solaris
- Chapter 2 Performing an Interactive Installation
- Chapter 3 Performing a Custom JumpStart Installation
- Chapter 4 Upgrading a System
- Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
- Chapter 6 Preconfiguring System Configuration Information
- Chapter 7 Preparing to Install Solaris Software Over the Network
- Chapter 8 Preparing Custom JumpStart Installations
- Overview
- What Happens During a Custom JumpStart Installation
- Task Map: Preparing Custom JumpStart Installations
- Creating a Profile Server
- Enabling All Systems to Access the Profile Server
- Creating a Profile Diskette
- Creating the rules File
- Creating a Profile
- What Is a Profile
- Important Information about Creating Profiles
- How to Create a Profile
- Profile Examples
- Profile Keyword and Profile Value Descriptions
- backup_media Profile Keyword
- boot_device Profile Keyword
- client_arch Profile Keyword
- client_root Profile Keyword
- client_swap Profile Keyword
- cluster Profile Keyword (Adding Software Groups)
- cluster Profile Keyword (Adding/Deleting Clusters)
- dontuse Profile Keyword
- fdisk Profile Keyword
- filesys Profile Keyword (Mounting Remote File Systems)
- filesys Profile Keyword (Creating Local File Systems)
- install_type Profile Keyword
- layout_constraint Profile Keyword
- locale locale_name Profile Keyword
- num_clients Profile Keyword
- package Profile Keyword
- partitioning Profile Keyword
- root_device Profile Keyword
- system_type Program Keyword
- usedisk Profile Keyword
- How the Size of Swap Is Determined
- How the System's Root Disk Is Determined
- Testing a Profile
- Validating the rules File
- Chapter 9 Using Optional Custom JumpStart Features
- Appendix A Planning Disk Space
- Appendix B Solaris CD Layout
- Appendix C Platform Names and Groups
- Appendix D Sample Custom JumpStart Setup
- Sample Site Setup
- Create an Install Server
- Create a Boot Server for Marketing Systems
- Create a JumpStart Directory
- Share the JumpStart Directory
- Create the Engineering Group's Profile
- Create the Marketing Group's Profile
- Update the rules File
- Check the rules File
- Set Up Engineering Systems to Install Over the Network
- Set Up Marketing Systems to Install Over the Network.
- Boot the Engineering Systems and Install Solaris Software
- Boot the Marketing Systems and Install Solaris Software
- Appendix E Language and Locale Values
- Appendix F x86: Preserving Existing Operating Systems and User Data
- Glossary
- Index