Chapter 2 Preparing Your Solaris 8 Admin Pack Installation

This chapter describes the system requirements, and how to prepare for installing the Solaris 8 Admin Pack products.

• "Uninstall AdminSuite 3.0"

• "Hardware and Software Requirements"

• "Increasing Disk Space"

Uninstall AdminSuite 3.0

Before installing AdminSuite 3.0.1 from the Solaris 8 Admin Pack CD, you must remove the previous version, AdminSuite 3.0. See "Removing Unwanted Applications".

Hardware and Software Requirements

The following lists the system requirements necessary for you to install the Solaris 8 Admin Pack and the AdminSuite client.

• A CD-ROM drive attached to the system where you plan to install the Admin Pack products.

• The system on which you install the Solaris 8 Admin Pack products must run the Solaris 8 operating environment. Many of the products also run on earlier versions of the Solaris environment (as mentioned in their online product documentation) but this capability is not supported as part of the Solaris 8 Admin Pack. Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 supports the Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 operating environments.

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  If you attempt to install either the product CD or the Documentation CD on a non-Solaris 8 system using Web Start, a message will indicate that the installation is not valid. You will not be able to proceed. If you use the pkgadd command to install, the installation will be completed but the software will not operate properly.

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• PCs running Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT for installing SEAS client software.

Table 2-1 lists the disk space the Solaris 8 Admin Pack requires in each disk partition. Note that disk space requirements are approximate and may vary. The requirements in Table 2-1 include the space needed to install the components on both the product CD and the Documentation CD.

Increasing Disk Space

Although the Solaris Web Start wizard checks the available disk space based on your installation selections, make sure you have sufficient disk space available before you install the Admin Pack products. Use Table 2-1 to determine your disk space needs.

Determining Current Disk Space Usage

When you suspect insufficient disk space in the directories in which Admin Pack product files are installed, you may find the following commands useful in determining the current disk space usage.

• Display Filesystem Statistics: df -k directory

  The command df -k directory displays the amount of used and available disk space for each of the mounted file systems. The example indicates that 101061 kilobytes are available in /opt.

  For example, df -k /opt could display something like the following:

  Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 123455 10049 101061 10% /opt

• Report on Disk Usage: du directory

  The command du directory reports the amount of disk space used by all files and subdirectories underneath one or more specified directories, listed on a per subdirectory basis. Disk usage is reported in blocks. The numbers on the left indicate the number of blocks of disk space occupied by the directory. In our example, the /opt/SUNWits directory occupies 18456 blocks of disk space.

  For example, du /opt could display something like the following:

  18456 /opt/SUNWits 2 /opt/SUNWleo/include 4 /opt/SUNWleo

Removing Unwanted Applications

Admin Pack products can be removed using one of the following methods:

• The Product Registry. See "Uninstalling Using the Product Registry" for more information.

• The jre command. See "Uninstalling Using the jre Command" for more information.

• The pkgrm command. See "Uninstalling Using the pkgrm Command" for more information.

Uninstalling Using the Product Registry

Use the Solaris Product Registry to uninstall applications you no longer need or use to free necessary disk space. See "Uninstalling Products From the Registry" for step-by-step instructions. You will find the name of the uninstall program in the right panel of the Product Registry after selecting the application to be removed in the left panel.

Uninstalling Using the jre Command

To remove an Admin Pack application using the jre command, you can run the uninstall program from the application.

For example, to remove AdminSuite, you would type the following command at the superuser system prompt:

jre --cp /var/sadm/prod/com.sun.AdminSuite_3_0/607900099 uninstall_AdminSuite_3.0.class

Uninstalling Using the pkgrm Command

You must be logged in as root and you must know the name of the packages that make up the application. For example, to remove AdminSuite, which consists of the packages SUNWseamj and SUNWseams, using the pkgrm command, you would type the following command:

pkgrm SUNWseamj SUNWseams

To find the name of the application packages, use the following command and then use the pkgrm command as indicated above.

pkginfo | grep application_name