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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
Part I Overall Planning of Any Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. What's New in Oracle Solaris Installation
What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release for Installation
What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release for Installation
DVD Media Only for Installations
How to Enable or Modify Auto Registration
When Is the Data Transmitted to Oracle?
What Configurations Are Supported?
How to Disable Auto Registration
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release for Installation
ZFS and Flash Installation Support
Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Oracle Solaris OS
Zones Parallel Patching Reduces Patching Time
What's New in the Solaris 10 8/07 Release for Installation
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed
New sysidkdb Tool Prevents Having to Configure Your Keyboard
Prevent Prompting When You Use the JumpStart Program
NFSv4 Domain Name Configurable During Installation
What's New in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release for Installation
Enhanced Security Using the Restricted Networking Profile
Flash Archive Can Create an Archive That Includes Large Files
What's New in the Solaris 10 1/06 Release for Oracle Solaris Installation
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed
Upgrade Support Changes for Oracle Solaris Releases
What's New in the Solaris 10 3/05 Release for Oracle Solaris Installation
Solaris Installation Changes Including Installation Unification
Accessing the GUI or Console-based Installations
Custom JumpStart Installation Package and Patch Enhancements
Configuring Multiple Network Interfaces During Installation
Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates New Boot Environment
Reduced Networking Software Group
Modifying Disk Partition Tables by Using a Virtual Table of Contents
x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
3. Oracle Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)
4. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
5. Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
6. ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)
7. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
8. Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
10. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, you can install and boot a ZFS root file system.
The following installation programs perform an initial installation of a ZFS root pool.
The Oracle Solaris text installer performs an initial installation for a ZFS root pool. During the installation, you can choose to install either a UFS file system or a ZFS root pool. You can set up a mirrored ZFS root pool by selecting two disks during the installation. Or, you can attach or add additional disks after the installation to create a mirrored ZFS root pool. Swap and dump devices on ZFS volumes are automatically created in the ZFS root pool.
For step-by-step instructions, see Chapter 3, Installing With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS Root Pools (Planning and Tasks), in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Basic Installations.
With custom JumpStart, you can create a profile to create a ZFS storage pool and designate a bootable ZFS file system. New ZFS profile keywords install a ZFS root pool for an initial installation. A ZFS profile contains a limited set of keywords.
For more information about JumpStart and ZFS, see Chapter 9, Installing a ZFS Root Pool With JumpStart, in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations
You can use Live Upgrade to perform the following tasks:
Migrate a UFS root (/) file system to a ZFS root pool
Create a new boot environment in the following ways:
Within an existing ZFS root pool
Within another ZFS root pool
From a source other than the currently running system
On a system with non-global zones installed
After you have used the lucreate command to create a ZFS boot environment, you can use other Live Upgrade commands on the boot environment, such as the luupgrade and luactivate commands. For more information on using Live Upgrade for ZFS, see Chapter 11, Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview), in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, the structure of the Oracle Solaris Operating System DVD and Oracle Solaris Software - 1 CD have changed for the SPARC platform. Slice 0 is no longer at the top of the directory structure. Therefore, the structure of the x86 and SPARC DVD and Oracle Solaris Software - 1 CD are the same. This change in structure makes setting up an install server easier if you have a mix of platforms, such as a SPARC install server and x86 media. For procedures for setting up an install server, see the following: