Preconfiguring System Configuration Information

In previous releases, the first part of the Solaris installation program tried to obtain system configuration information about a system (such as the system's peripheral devices, host name, IP address, name service) from the name service databases. The installation program prompted you if it couldn't find the information. If you didn't want to be prompted, you had to preconfigure the system configuration information in the name service.

Using the Solaris 2.6 sysidcfg file, you can now preconfigure system configuration information through a set of keywords. You can choose to provide one or more of the keywords to preconfigure varying levels of system configuration information.

The sysidcfg file can reside on a remote system or on a UFS or PCFS diskette in the system's local diskette drive. If you choose to put the sysidcfg file on a remote system, you have to use the -p option of the add_install_client command to specify where the system being installed can find the sysidcfg file.

When installing the base (English) Solaris 2.6 CD, you'll be prompted to select an English locale, because a new, 8-bit English local (en_US) has been added to Solaris 2.6. If you don't want to be prompted for the locale, you must preconfigure the locale information. For more information about the new en_US locale, see the "New Locales in the Base Installation."

For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.