Preface

The Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Package List lists and describes the packages included in the Solaris 10 8/11 Operating System (Solaris OS). The list includes information about the software groups that contain each package.

Note - This Oracle Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Oracle Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document, these x86 related terms mean the following:

x86 refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
x64 relates specifically to 64-bit x86 compatible CPUs.
"32-bit x86" points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

For supported systems, see the Oracle Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the Solaris software.

Related Books

The following table lists related information that you need when you install the Solaris software.

Table P-1 Related Information

Information	Description
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade	Guides you through planning the installation or upgrade of the Oracle Solaris operating system. This book provides overviews of all the Oracle Solaris installation programs. This book also provides overviews of the following features as they relate to installation: GRUB, the open-source boot loader Solaris Zones partitioning technology RAID-1 volumes that can be created at installation time
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Basic Installations	Describes how to perform a basic Solaris installation, on SPARC or x86 platforms, with a graphical user interface (GUI).
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations	Describes how to perform a remote Oracle Solaris installation over a local area network or a wide area network.
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning	Describes how to use Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade to create and upgrade new boot environments.
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations	Describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended custom JumpStart installation.
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)	Provides instructions for creating Solaris Flash archives and using Solaris Flash archives to install the Solaris OS on multiple systems.
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems	Describes how to back up system files and other system administration tasks.
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release Notes	Describes any bugs, known problems, and software that is being discontinued in the Oracle Solaris release.
Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 What’s New	Summarizes all new features in the Oracle Solaris release.
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Patch List	Lists the patches that are related to the Oracle Solaris release.
SPARC: Solaris Sun Hardware Platform Guide on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html	Contains information about supported hardware.
x86: Solaris Hardware Compatibility List	Contains supported hardware information and device configuration details.

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