SPARC T5-8 Server Product Notes

Installing and Booting Oracle Solaris 11 From Devices Connected to a USB Port

To install Oracle Solaris 11 without using an IPS AutoInstall server on the network, you can use Oracle Solaris media in a DVD drive, either built into the server or attached to a USB port. You also can boot from an ISO image copied to a DVD disk, hard disk, or SSD.

Starting with Oracle Solaris 11.2, you can install the OS on this server from an image copied to a USB flash drive. That USB image is available for download at the same location as the ISO images:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html

You also can create a persistent device alias for a device connected to a USB port.

For more information see "Installing Oracle Solaris 11.2 Systems" at: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01

You can boot Oracle Solaris 11 from drives installed in the server (hard disk, SDD, or DVD) or from devices connected to a USB port.

For the path to identify a USB port in a boot command, refer to this table:

These paths appear in the list of devices that is output by the show-dev OpenBoot command.