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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
Part I Planning to Install Over the Network
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Preconfiguring System Configuration Information (Tasks)
3. Preconfiguring With a Naming Service or DHCP
Part II Installing Over a Local Area Network
4. Installing From the Network (Overview)
5. Installing From the Network With DVD Media (Tasks)
6. Installing From the Network With CD Media (Tasks)
7. Patching the Miniroot Image (Tasks)
8. Installing Over the Network (Examples)
9. Installing From the Network (Command Reference)
Part III Installing Over a Wide Area Network
11. Preparing to Install With WAN Boot (Planning)
12. Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)
13. SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks)
14. SPARC: Installing With WAN Boot (Examples)
Problems With Setting Up Network Installations
Problems With Booting a System
Booting From Media, Error Messages
Booting From Media, General Problems
Booting From the Network, Error Messages
Booting From the Network, General Problems
Initial Installation of the Oracle Solaris OS
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS
To Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVM
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
To Install Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Oracle Solaris DVD
To Install From the Oracle Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image
IDE disk drives do not automatically map out bad blocks like other drives supported by Oracle Solaris software. Before installing Oracle Solaris on an IDE disk, you might want to perform a surface analysis on the disk. To perform surface analysis on an IDE disk, follow this procedure.
Note - Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
# format
# cxdy
Is the controller number
Is the device number
If a Oracle Solaris fdisk partition already exists, proceed to Step 7.
If a Oracle Solaris fdisk partition does not exist, use the fdisk command to create a Oracle Solaris partition on the disk.
format> fdisk
format> analyze
analyze> config
analyze> setup
analyze> type_of_surface_analysis
Is read, write, or compare
If format finds bad blocks, it remaps them.
analyze> quit
If no, go to Step 13.
If yes, type:
format> repair
quit
# exit