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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
x86: To Check IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
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
When you use Live Upgrade while upgrading and running Veritas VxVM, the system panics on reboot unless you upgrade by using the following procedure. The problem occurs if packages do not conform to Oracle Solaris advanced packaging guidelines.
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.
# lumount inactive_boot_environment_name mount_point
For example:
# lumount solaris8 /mnt
# cd /mnt/etc
# cp vfstab vfstab.501
# sed '/vx\/dsk/s/^/#/g' < vfstab > vfstab.novxfs
The first character of each line is changed to #, which makes the line a comment line. Note that this comment line is different than the system file-comment lines.
# cp vfstab.novxfs vfstab
# cd /mnt/etc
# cp system system.501
# sed '/forceload: drv\/vx/s/^/*/' <system> system.novxfs
The first character of each line is changed to *, which makes the line a command line. Note that this comment line is different than the vfstab file comment lines.
# touch vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db
# luumount inactive_boot_environment_name
# init 0
OK boot -s
Several messages and error messages that contain “vxvm” or “VXVM” are displayed that can be ignored. The inactive boot environment becomes active.
# cp /etc/vfstab.original /etc/vfstab # cp /etc/system.original /etc/system
# init 6
If you install the current Oracle Solaris release on a system that does not currently include a service or diagnostic partition, the installation program might not create a service partition by default. If you want to include a service partition on the same disk as the Oracle Solaris partition, you must re-create the service partition before you install the current Oracle Solaris release.
If you installed the Solaris 8 2/02 OS on a system with a service partition, the installation program might not have preserved the service partition. If you did not manually edit the fdisk boot partition layout to preserve the service partition, the installation program deleted the service partition during the installation.
Note - If you did not specifically preserve the service partition when you installed the Solaris 8 2/02 OS, you might not be able to re-create the service partition and upgrade to the current Oracle Solaris release.
If you want to include a service partition on the disk that contains the Oracle Solaris partition, choose one of the following workaround methods.