Introduction to Sun Installation Assistant

This section introduces Oracle's Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) version 2.3 through 2.4 and describes how to get started using SIA to perform deployment or recovery tasks on your Sun Fire and Sun Blade x86/x64 servers.

Description Link Learn about requirements and tasks that can be performed using SIA. Getting Started With Sun Installation Assistant Start and prepare SIA for deployment or recovery tasks from local or remote media. Starting SIA and Preparing for Deployment or Recovery Tasks Create RAID-1 volumes on internal disk drives. Configuring RAID Perform an assisted operating system installation of Microsoft Windows. Installing Windows With SIA Perform an assisted operating system installation of Linux. Installing Linux With SIA Perform a system firmware upgrade (system BIOS and ILOM, disk controller HBA or disk expander). Using SIA to Upgrade System Firmware Recover from a corrupt or inaccessible service processor. Using SIA to Recover a Service Processor Perform an SIA task (OS installation or firmware upgrade) using a PXE-based SIA image in attended mode. Performing an SIA PXE-Based Attended Installation Perform an SIA task (OS installation or firmware upgrade) using a PXE-based SIA image in unattended mode. Performing an SIA PXE-Based Unattended Installation Troubleshoot an SIA installation. Troubleshooting SIA