Using a Site-Specific Installation Program

Through the use of begin and finish scripts, sites with special requirements can install the Solaris software by creating their own installation program. When a minus sign (-) is specified in the profile field, the begin and finish scripts control how the system is installed, instead of the profile and the Solaris installation program.

For example, if the following rule would match, the x_install.beg begin script and the x_install.fin finish script would install the system named sherlock (the Solaris installation program would not be used):

hostname sherlock  x_install.beg  -  x_install.fin