Installation
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Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 Solaris Live Upgrade provides a method of upgrading that substantially reduces the usual service outage that is associated with an operating system upgrade. You can duplicate your current running boot environment, then while the original boot environment continues to run, you can upgrade the duplicate. The duplicate boot environment is then activated to become the active boot environment when the system is rebooted. If a failure occurs, you can quickly fall back to the original boot environment with a simple reboot, thereby eliminating the downtime for the production environment associated with the normal test and evaluation process. In addition to upgrading a boot environment, you can install a Web Start Flash archive on an inactive boot environment. When you reboot the system, the configuration that you installed on an inactive boot environment is active. The Solaris 9 release includes several Live Upgrade enhancements that apply to the command-line interface only. The enhancements affect the following:
For information on these command-line enhancements, see "Live Upgrade Command-Line Features". For further information on Solaris Live Upgrade, see "Solaris Live Upgrade Topics" in the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 7/01 Updated in Solaris 9 |
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Web Start Flash Installation Feature The Web Start Flash installation feature enables you to create a single reference installation of the Solaris operating environment on a machine and then replicate that installation on several machines. For further information, see "Web Start Flash Installation Feature Topics" in the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 4/01 |
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Web Start Flash Archive Retrieval Using FTP The Web Start Flash program has been updated to allow you to retrieve a Web Start Flash archive by using FTP. When installing an archive, you can specify the location of an archive on an FTP server. For more details about how to retrieve an archive from an FTP server, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 9 |
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Minimal Installation Files that constitute several features in the core software group, or metacluster, are now moved into separate, more logically organized packages. You can optionally exclude these packages from the Solaris operating environment when you install the Solaris software. You can also remove these packages by using pkgrm(1M) after installation. Files that constitute the following features are moved into new or existing packages:
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Solaris 9 |
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Longer Package Names The pkgmk utility can now be used to create packages with names up to 32 characters in length. See the pkgmk(1) and pkgadd(1M) man pages. |
Solaris 9 |
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Installation From the Solaris DVD You can now install the Solaris operating environment and additional software from the Solaris DVD. The DVD enables you to perform either a SolarisTM Web Start installation or a custom JumpStartTM installation. The Solaris DVD includes the Solaris software, ExtraValue software, and the Solaris documentation. For detailed instructions, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 2/02 |
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Solaris Web Start Program Uses sysidcfg File The Solaris Web Start installation method has been modified to use the sysidcfg file to configure system information during an installation or upgrade. If you create a sysidcfg file with configuration information for your system, the Solaris Web Start program does not prompt you to enter the system information during installation. For detailed instructions, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 2/02 |
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Solaris Web Start Program Enhancements The Solaris Web Start installation method was updated to enable you to perform the following functions during the Solaris installation or upgrade:
For detailed instructions, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 2/02 |
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Additions to Time Zone Selections The number of time zones available in the Solaris 9 operating environment has dramatically increased. When you install the Solaris operating environment, you can select time zones by geographic region. The time zone selections in the lists of continents and countries have been expanded. For detailed instructions, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 9 |
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Solaris Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1 Solaris Web Start WizardsTM SDK simplifies the installation, setup, and administration of native Solaris, JavaTM, and non-Java applications. With Solaris Web Start Wizards software, developers can copackage both Solaris versions and Microsoft Windows versions of their applications. The installation wizard manages the platform specifics. The Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1 is now included with the Solaris 9 release and can be installed by using the Solaris Web Start installation program. |
Solaris 9 |
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New Boot Options for a Custom JumpStart Installation New options have been added for use with the boot command when you perform a custom JumpStart installation. With the boot command, you can specify the location of the configuration files to use to perform the installation. You can specify a path to an HTTP server, an NFS server, or a file that is available on local media. If you do not know the path to the files, you can require that the installation program prompt you for the path after the machine boots and connects to the network. The nowin option enables you to specify that the custom JumpStart program not begin the X program. You do not need to use the X program to perform a custom JumpStart installation, so you can shorten the installation time by using the nowin option. For detailed instructions about how to use these new options, refer to "Custom JumpStart Installation Topics" in the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 7/01 |
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Upgrading Mirrors The Solaris 9 release now supports operating environment upgrades of root mirrors and metadevices that were created by Solaris Volume Manager (formerly Solstice DiskSuite). If you are upgrading a system that has a metadevice that was created by Solaris Volume Manager, you no longer need to edit the system's vfstab. As for root mirrors, the mirror is detected and the operating environment on the mirror is upgraded just as would happen in a typical upgrade without metadevices. |
Solaris 9 |
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Default Routing With System Identification Utilities The system identification utilities automatically attempt to determine the default router during installation. For installation information, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 4/01 |
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Configuration With System Identification Utilities During system identification, the system identification utilities can configure systems to be LDAP clients. Prior Solaris releases allowed the configuration of a machine only as an NIS, NIS+, or DNS client. For installation information, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 1/01 |
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Patch Analyzer The Patch Analyzer is now available when you use the Solaris Web Start program to upgrade to a Solaris Update release. The Patch Analyzer performs an analysis on your system to determine which (if any) patches will be removed or downgraded by upgrading to a Solaris Update release. You do not need to use the Patch Analyzer when you upgrade to the Solaris 9 release. For further installation information, see the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. |
Solaris 8 1/01 |
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