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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: JumpStart Installations     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  JumpStart (Overview)

3.  Preparing JumpStart Installations (Tasks)

4.  Using Optional JumpStart Features (Tasks)

Creating Begin Scripts

About Begin Scripts

Creating Derived Profiles With a Begin Script

Tracking Installation Duration With a Begin Script and Finish Script

Creating Finish Scripts

About Finish Scripts

Adding Files With a Finish Script

Adding Packages or Patches With a Finish Script

Customizing the Root Environment With a Finish Script

Non-Interactive Installations With Finish Scripts

Creating a Compressed Configuration File

How to Create a Compressed Configuration File

Creating Disk Configuration Files

SPARC: How to Create a Single-Disk Configuration File

SPARC: How to Create a Multiple-Disk Configuration File

x86: How to Create a Single-Disk Configuration File

x86: How to Create a Multiple-Disk Configuration File

Using a Site-Specific Installation Program

5.  Creating Custom Rule and Probe Keywords (Tasks)

6.  Performing a JumpStart Installation (Tasks)

7.  Installing With JumpStart (Examples)

8.  JumpStart Keyword Reference

9.  Installing a ZFS Root Pool With JumpStart

Glossary

Index

Using a Site-Specific Installation Program

You can also use begin and finish scripts to create your own installation program to install Oracle Solaris software.

When you specify a minus sign (-) in the profile field, begin and finish scripts control how Oracle Solaris software is installed on a system instead of the profile and the Oracle Solaris installation program.

For example, if the following rule matches a system, the x_install.beg begin script and the x_install.fin finish script install Oracle Solaris software on the system that is named clover:

hostname clover x_install.beg - x_install.fin