Introduction to Oracle Solaris OS Installation

This document provides information about installing the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS or the Oracle Solaris 11 OS on your server, and points to the Oracle Solaris documentation for installation.

Note - The Sun Server X2-8 was formerly named the Sun Fire X4800 M2 server. This former name might still appear in the product. The name change does not indicate any change in system features or functionality.

This document includes the following topics:

Description	Link
Preliminary tasks to be done before installing Oracle Solaris OS.	Preparing for OS Installation
Erase an existing volume on the boot disk.	How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk
Create a required virtual drive volume on the boot disk.	Creating a Virtual Disk
Install Solaris OS.	Installing Solaris OS
Decide on an installation method.	Choosing an Installation Method
Obtain Solaris OS installation documentation.	Obtaining Solaris 10 Documentation or Obtaining Solaris 11 Documentation
Identify your logical and physical network ports.	Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Solaris OS Installation

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