Preparing for Installation

You must perform the steps discussed here. This section examines the steps in the preparing phase of the installation process as illustrated in Figure 1-3.

Figure 1-3 Preparing for Installation

You must repeat these steps to prepare all the hosts on the network to install Solaris ISP Server platform extensions and services.

• Step 1: See Chapter 3, Installation Requirements and verify prerequisites for installing Solaris ISP Server platform extensions and services.

  The goal of this step is to ensure that your Solaris ISP Server network hosts meet:

  • Specified CPU, disk space, RAM, and swap requirements as discussed in "Hardware Requirements".

  • Specified operating system requirements as discussed in "Patches to Install".

• Step 2: Verify Solaris ISP Server platform extensions and services dependencies (see "Solaris ISP Server Components")

  The goal of this step is to ensure that, for successful installation and functioning of Solaris ISP Server software,

  • All specified bundled and independent package dependencies have been noted.

  • All component default ports are available for installing the components.

• Step 3: Write a postinstallation script to be executed after installation of Solaris ISP Server software. This is optional and if you do not wish to perform any tasks after installation, proceed to install Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software. For guidelines to write the script, see "Creating User-defined Scripts".

  The goal of this step is to :

  • Write a postinstallation script.

  • Supply a path to the script.

• Step 4: Proceed to install or upgrade to Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software. See Figure 1-4 for more information.