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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
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release for Installation
Installing a ZFS Root File System
Structure Change for Installation Media
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 10/09 release, you can set up a JumpStart profile to identify a Flash archive of a ZFS root pool.
A Flash archive can be created on a system that is running a UFS root file system or a ZFS root file system. A Flash archive of a ZFS root pool contains the entire pool hierarchy, except for the swap and dump volumes, and any excluded datasets. The swap and dump volumes are created when the Flash archive is installed.
You can use the Flash archive installation method as follows:
Generate a Flash archive that can be used to install and boot a system with a ZFS root file system.
Perform a JumpStart installation of a system by using a ZFS Flash archive.
Note - Creating a ZFS Flash archive backs up an entire root pool, not individual boot environments. Individual datasets within the pool can be excluded by using the flarcreate and flar command's -D option.
For detailed instructions and limitations, see Installing a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Flash Archive Installation) in Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.
In previous Oracle Solaris releases, you could not install and boot the Oracle Solaris OS from a disk that was greater than 1 TB in size. Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can install and boot the Oracle Solaris OS from a disk that is up to 2 TB in size.
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can use the VTOC label on a disk of any size, but the addressable space by the VTOC is limited to 2 TB. This feature allows disks that are larger than 2 TB to be used as boot drives, but the usable space from the label is limited to 2 TB.
Note - This feature is only available on systems that run a 64-bit kernel. A minimum of 1 GB of memory is required for x86 based systems.
For detailed information, see Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Oracle Solaris OS in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, SVR4 package commands run faster. This enhancement means that the Oracle Solaris installation technologies, such as initial installations, upgrades, Live Upgrades, and zone installations, perform significantly faster.
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard Oracle Solaris 10 patch utilities. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching non-global zones in parallel.
For releases prior to the Solaris 10 10/09 release, this feature is delivered in the following patch utilities patches:
SPARC: patch 119254-66 or later revision
x86: patch 119255-66 or later revision
Note - The global zone is still patched before the non-global zones are patched.
For more information, see the following documentation: