Ways to Test a Profile

pfinstall enables you to test a profile against:

• The system's disk configuration where pfinstall is being run.

• Other disk configurations by using a disk configuration file that represents a structure of a disk (for example, a disk's bytes/sector, flags, slices). Creating disk configuration files is described in:

  • SPARC: Creating Disk Configuration Files

  • x86: Creating Disk Configuration Files

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  Note –

  You cannot use a disk configuration file to test a profile you intend to use to upgrade a system. Instead, you must test the profile against the system's actual disk configuration and the software currently installed on that system.

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