| Solaris 8 2/04 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware |     |
| Solaris 8 2/04 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware | |
| C H A P T E R 1 |
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Late-Breaking News |
This manual provides the following information:
Late-breaking news (this chapter)
End-of-support and future end-of-support statements (Chapter 2)
Open issues (Chapter 3)
Alternate Pathing issues (Chapter 4)
Sun Fire midrange system issues (Chapter 5)
Sun Enterprise midrange system open issues (Chapter 6)
Sun Enterprise
10000 server issues (Chapter 7)
Sun Fire High-End Servers open issues (Chapter 8)
This manual supplements the Solaris 8 2/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide and the Solaris 8 2/04 Release Notes.
Patches included in this release that occurred after the Solaris 8 release are listed by number in the online Solaris 8 2/04 Release Notes at:
The Solaris 8 2/04 media includes no OEM content to support non-Sun hardware systems.
Although the Solaris 8 2/04 software is designed and tested to be compatible with previous releases, some applications may not be fully ABI-compliant. Contact the supplier of the unbundled product directly for information about compatibility.
If you are upgrading from an existing version of Solaris software and have installed unbundled products, either from Sun or from a different company, you must ensure that all those products are supported on the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment prior to upgrading. Depending on the status of each unbundled product, you have three options for each unbundled product:
Verify that the existing version of the unbundled product is supported on the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment.
Acquire and install a new version of the unbundled product that is supported on the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment. Note that in this case you may need to remove the previous version of the unbundled product prior to upgrading to the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment. See the unbundled product documentation for more details.
Remove the unbundled product prior to upgrading to the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment.
For additional information contact the supplier of the unbundled product or your service provider or go to:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pubpatch
In addition to the platforms named in the Solaris 8 2/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide, the platforms in TABLE 1-1 are also supported:
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Note - In this document, the CD labeled "Solaris 8 2/04 Software Supplement" is called the "Supplement CD". |
TABLE 1-2 lists some documents available on the Supplement CD that are not included in AnswerBook or man page collections.
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Note - The _en indicates an English language document. Other languages may be indicated, depending on locale. |
The Supplement CD also contains other documentation in AnswerBook packages and in man page packages. The documentation in AnswerBook packages can only be read through the AnswerBook2 server software provided on the Solaris Documentation CD. Documents in the man page packages can only be read through the man command. Refer to the Solaris 8 2/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for details on installing these packages from the Supplement CD.
Some sun4u systems need to be updated to a higher level of OpenBoot firmware in the flash PROM before they can run the 64-bit mode of the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment. Systems that can only run the 32-bit mode (such as those in the sun4d and sun4m platform groups) do not require updated firmware to run Solaris 8 2/04 software.
The only systems that may require this flash PROM update are the following:
Sun Ultra 1
Ultra 2
Ultra 450 and Sun Enterprise 450
Sun Enterprise 3000, 4000, 5000, and 6000 systems
See the Solaris 8 2/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for instructions for determining whether your system needs a flash PROM update and for instructions on performing that update.
For the Ultra and Ultra 2 systems, an antistatic wrist strap may be required for the update. If you need a wrist strap, send e-mail to strap@sun.com.
As of Solaris 8 7/01, the Flash PROM multimedia AnswerBook CD is no longer available. Up-to-date instructions for updating flash PROM are still available in the Solaris 8 2/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide.
The Removable Media Manager replaces the ``Open Floppy'' and ``Open CD-ROM'' options formerly found in the CDE menus and front panel. For related bug descriptions and workarounds, refer to the "Common Desktop Environment Bugs" section of "Solaris Runtime Issues" in the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 10/00 Release Notes Update on http://docs.sun.com.
If your system has a Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive with firmware revision 1007, the system cannot boot from the Solaris 8 2/04 DVD.
Workaround: Apply patch 111649-03, or a later version, to update the Toshiba
SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive's firmware. You can download patch 111649-03 or a later version by going to the SunSolveSM website at:
To install and run StarOffice 6.0 with Solaris 8 2/04, make sure that the following patches are installed on your system:
Power management of interactive devices such as removable media is linked with power management of your monitor and the graphics card that drives your monitor. If your screen is active, devices such as the CD-ROM drive and floppy disk are kept at full-power mode. This means that if you are running a system without a monitor, these devices may go into low-power mode. If you want to restore power to the CD or floppy, simply type volcheck to cause the OS to get the latest status from each removable device.
Alternatively, you can disable power management on your system by using the dtpower GUI. Then the devices are not put into low-power mode even when on a headless system, but run at full power all the time. This is not a bug, but is the intended behavior.
If you are installing Solaris using a DVD and want to install any products from the Supplement CD, select the "custom installation" option in the "Select Type of Install" window.
Patch 114152-01 is now available on SunSolve for use with Solaris 8 2/04. This patch fixes two previous bugs: BugID 4775194 (which affected any user who installed the Japanese BCP package), and BugID 4775198.
This patch can be obtained from the web at:
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