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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Basic Installations     Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Planning for a Oracle Solaris Installation From CD or DVD Media (Tasks)

2.  Installing With the Oracle Solaris Installation Program For UFS File Systems (Tasks)

3.  Installing With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS Root Pools (Planning and Tasks)

ZFS Root Pool Installation (Planning)

What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release

Performing Initial Installation With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS

SPARC: How to Install a ZFS Root Pool

x86: Performing an Initial Installation With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS

x86: To Install With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer With GRUB for ZFS

Index

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release

Starting with the Oracle 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:

For detailed instructions and limitations, see Installing a ZFS Root File System (Oracle Solaris Flash Archive Installation) in Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.