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Contents

Preace .....................................................................................................................................................7

Part I Overall Planning o Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade ..............................................................11

1 Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Inormation ............................................................ 13

Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Inormation .................................................. 13

2 What's New in Solaris Installation .................................................................................................... 15

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release or Installation ........................................................... 15

ZFS and Flash Installation Support ............................................................................................ 15

Two-Terabyte Disk Support or Installing and Booting the Solaris OS ................................ 16

Faster Installations ....................................................................................................................... 16

Zones Parallel Patching Reduces Patching Time ..................................................................... 16What's New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release or Installation ........................................................... 17

Installing a ZFS Root File System ............................................................................................... 17

Structure Change or Installation Media ................................................................................... 18

What's New in the Solaris 10 8/07 Release or Installation ............................................................. 18

Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed ........................................ 18

Newsysidkdb Tool Prevents Having to Congure Your Keyboard ..................................... 20

NFSv4 Domain Name Congurable During Installation ....................................................... 21

What's New in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release or Installation ........................................................... 22

Enhanced Security Using the Restricted Networking Prole ................................................. 22

Installing Solaris Trusted Extensions ........................................................................................ 23

Solaris Flash Can Create an Archive That Includes Large Files .............................................. 23

What's New in the Solaris 10 1/06 Release or Solaris Installation ................................................ 23

Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed ........................................ 24x86: GRUB Based Booting .......................................................................................................... 24

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Upgrade Support Changes or Solaris Releases ........................................................................ 26

What's New in the Solaris 10 3/05 Release or Solaris Installation ................................................ 26

Solaris Installation Changes Including Installation Unication ............................................ 26Custom JumpStart Installation Package and Patch Enhancements ....................................... 28

Conguring Multiple Network Interaces During Installation .............................................. 28

SPARC: 64-bit Package Changes ................................................................................................ 28

Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates New Boot Environment ............................ 29

Reduced Networking Sotware Group ...................................................................................... 29

Modiying Disk Partition Tables by Using a Virtual Table o Contents ................................ 30

x86: Change in Deault Boot-Disk Partition Layout ................................................................ 30

3 Solaris Installation andUpgrade (Roadmap) ................................................................................. 31

Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Sotware ................................................................ 31

Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs? ...................................................................... 34

Initial Installation, or Upgrade? ......................................................................................................... 35

Initial Installation ....................................................................................................................... .. 35

Upgrade ......................................................................................................................................... 35

Choosing a Solaris Installation Method ............................................................................................ 35

4 System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning) ...................................................... 39

System Requirements and Recommendations ................................................................................ 40

Allocating Disk and Swap Space ........................................................................................................ 41

General Disk Space Planning and Recommendations ............................................................ 41

Disk Space Recommendations or Sotware Groups ............................................................... 44

Upgrade Planning ............................................................................................................................... 46

Upgrading and Patching Limitations ........................................................................................ 47

Upgrade Programs ....................................................................................................................... 48

Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Instead o Upgrading ......................................................... 49Upgrading With Disk Space Reallocation ................................................................................ 50

Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading ............................................................................ 51

Backing Up And Restarting Systems For an Upgrade ............................................................. 51

Planning Network Security ................................................................................................................ 52

Restricted Security Specics ....................................................................................................... 52

Revising Security Settings Ater Installation ............................................................................ 53Locale Values ....................................................................................................................................... 54

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Platorm Names and Groups .............................................................................................................. 54

x86: Partitioning Recommendations ................................................................................................ 55

Deault Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition ..................................... 55How to Find the Version o the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running ................................... 56

5 GatheringInormation BeoreInstallation or Upgrade (Planning) ........................................... 57

Checklist or Installation .................................................................................................................... 57

Checklist or Upgrading ..................................................................................................................... 65

Part II Understanding InstallationsThat Relate to ZFS, Booting, Solaris Zones, andRAID-1

Volumes .................................................................................................................................................75

6 ZFSRoot File System Installation (Planning) .................................................................................. 77

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release ...................................................................................... 77

Requirements or Installing a ZFS Root Pool ................................................................................... 78

Disk Space Requirements or a ZFS Installation ...................................................................... 79

Solaris Installation Programs or Installing ZFS Root Pools .......................................................... 80

7 SPARCandx86 Based Booting (Overview andPlanning) ............................................................. 83

Booting or Solaris (Overview) .......................................................................................................... 83

Booting ZFS Boot Environments (Overview) ................................................................................. 84

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Overview) ............................................................................................. 85

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Planning) .............................................................................................. 85

x86: Perorming a GRUB Based Installation From the Network ............................................ 86

8 Upgrading When Solaris Zones AreInstalled on a System (Planning) ........................................87

Solaris Zones (Overview) ................................................................................................................... 87

Upgrading With Non-Global Zones ................................................................................................. 88

Backing Up Your System Beore Perorming an Upgrade With Zones ................................ 92

Disk Space Requirements or Non-Global Zones ............................................................................ 93

9 CreatingRAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation(Overview) .......................................... 95

Why Use RAID-1 Volumes? .............................................................................................................. 95

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How Do RAID-1 Volumes Work? .................................................................................................... 96

Overview o Solaris Volume Manager Components ...................................................................... 98

State Database and State Database Replicas .............................................................................. 98RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) ........................................................................................................ 99

RAID-0 Volumes (Concatenations) ........................................................................................ 100

Example o RAID-1 Volume Disk Layout ...................................................................................... 100

10 Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation(Planning) ......................................... 103

System Requirement ......................................................................................................................... 103State Database Replicas Guidelines and Requirements ................................................................ 104

Selecting Slices or State Database Replicas ............................................................................ 104

Choosing the Number o State Database Replicas ................................................................. 104

Distributing State Database Replicas Across Controllers ..................................................... 105

RAID-1 and RAID-0 Volume Requirements and Guidelines ..................................................... 105

Custom JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade Guidelines ..................................................... 105

Guidelines or Selecting Disks and Controllers ...................................................................... 109

Guidelines or Selecting Slices .................................................................................................. 109

Booting Into Single-User Mode Causes Mirror to Appear to Need Maintenance ..................... 110

Glossary .............................................................................................................................................. 111

Index ................................................................................................................................................... 123

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Related Books

Table P1 lists documentation or system administrators.

TABLE P1 Are You a System Administrator Who is Installing Solaris?

Description Information

Do you need toinstall a single systemrom DVD or CDmedia? TheSolaris installation program steps you through an installation.

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Basic Installations

Do you need toupgrade orpatch your systemwithalmost no

downtime? Save system downtime when upgrading by using SolarisLive Upgrade.

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and

Upgrade Planning

Do youneed to install a secureinstallation over the network or Internet?

Use WAN boot to install a remote client. Or, do you need toinstall over

the network rom a network installation image? The Solaris installationprogram steps you through an installation.

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based

Installations

Do youneed to install Solaris on multiple machines? UseJumpStartTM

to automate your installation.Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and

Advanced Installations

Do youneed to install or patch multiple systems quickly? UseSolarisFlash sotware to createa Solaris FlashTM archive andinstall a copy o

the OS on clone systems.

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives(Creationand Installation)

Do you need tobackup your system? Chapter 23, Backing Up andRestoring UFSFile Systems

(Overview), in System Administration Guide: Devices and

File Systems

Do youneed troubleshooting inormation, a list o known problems, or

a list o patches orthis release?

Solaris Release Notes

Do y ouneed to veriy t hat your system works on Solaris? SPARC: Solaris Sun Hardware Platorm Guide

Do youneed to check on which packages have been added, removed, or

changed in this release?

Solaris Package List

Do youneed to veriy that your systemand devices work with Solaris

SPARC and x86 based systems and other third-party vendors.

Solaris Hardware Compatibility List or x86 Platorms

Documentation, Support, andTraining

The Sun web site provides inormation about the ollowing additional resources:

Documentation (http://www.sun.com/documentation/) Support (http://www.sun.com/support/) Training (http://www.sun.com/training/)

Preace

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Sun Welcomes Your CommentsSun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments andsuggestions. To share your comments, go to http://docs.sun.com and click Feedback.

Typographic ConventionsThe ollowing table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

TABLE P2 TypographicConventions

Typeface Meaning Example

AaBbCc123 The names o commands, les, anddirectories,and onscreen computer output

Edit your .login le.

Use ls -a to list all les.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123 What youtype, contrasted with onscreen

computer outputmachine_name% su

Password:

aabbcc123 Placeholder: replace with a real nameor value The command to remove a le is rmflename.

AaBbCc123 Book titles, new terms, and terms to be

emphasized

ReadChapter 6 in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy that is stored

locally.

Do notsave thele.

Note: Some emphasized items

appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command ExamplesThe ollowing table shows the deault UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt or the Cshell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

TABLE P3 ShellPrompts

Shell Prompt

C shell machine_name%

C shell orsuperuser machine_name#

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Upgrade

This part guides you through planning the installation or upgrade o the Solaris OperatingSystem when using any installation program.

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Chapter Descriptions Reference

These chapters provide overviews o several technologies that relate to a Solaris

OS installation or upgrade. Guidelines and requirements related to thesetechnologies are also included. These chapters include inormation about ZFSinstallations, GRUBbased booting, Solaris Zones partitioning technology, and

RAID-1 volumes that can be created at installation.

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Note Creating a ZFS Flash archive backs up an entire root pool, not individual bootenvironments. Individual datasets within the pool can be excluded by using the flarcreate

and flar command's -D option.

For detailed instructions and limitations, see Installing a ZFS Root File System (Flash ArchiveInstallation) in Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.

Two-Terabyte Disk Support or Installing and Bootingthe Solaris OS

In previous Solaris releases, you could not install and boot the Solaris OS rom a disk that wasgreater than 1 terabyte in size. Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can install andboot the Solaris OS rom a disk that is up to 2 TB in size.

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can use the VTOC label on a disk o any size,but the addressable space by the VTOC is limited to 2 TB. This eature allows disks that arelarger than 2 TB to be used as boot drives, but the usable space rom the label is limited to 2 TB.

Note This eature is only available on systems that run a 64-bit kernel. A minimum o 1 GB omemory is required or x86 based systems.

For detailed inormation, see Two-Terabyte Disk Support or Installing and Booting theSolaris OS in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.

Faster Installations

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, SVR4 package commands run aster. This

enhancement means that the Solaris installation technologies, such as initial installations,upgrades, Live Upgrades, and zone installations, perorm signicantly aster.

Zones Parallel Patching Reduces Patching Time

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard

Solaris 10 patch utilities. This eature improves zones patching perormance by patchingnon-global zones in parallel.

What'sNew in theSolaris10 10/09 Release orInstallation

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For releases prior to the Solaris 10 10/09 release, this eature is delivered in the ollowing

patch utilities patches:

SPARC: patch 119254-66 or later revision x86: patch 119255-66 or later revision

Note The global zone is still patched beore the non-global zones are patched.

For more inormation, see the ollowing documentation:

Solaris 10 10/09: Zones Parallel Patching to Reduce Patching Time in SystemAdministration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

Solaris 10 10/09: How to Patch Non-Global Zones in Parallel in System Administration

Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

What's New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release or Installation

Installing a ZFS Root File System

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, you can install and boot a ZFS rootle system.

The ollowing installation programs perorm an initial installation o a ZFS root pool. The Solaris text installer perorms an initial installation or a ZFS root pool. During the

installation, you can choose to install either a UFS le system or a ZFS root pool. You can set

up a mirrored ZFS root pool by selecting two disks during the installation. Or, you can

attach or add additional disks ater the installation to create a mirrored ZFS root pool. Swap

and dump devices on ZFS volumes are automatically created in the ZFS root pool.

For step-by-step instructions, see Chapter 3, Installing With the Solaris Interactive Text

Installer or ZFS Root Pools (Planning and Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:Basic Installations.

With custom JumpStart, you can create a prole to create a ZFS storage pool and designate a

bootable ZFS le system. New ZFS prole keywords install a ZFS root pool or an initial

installation. A ZFS prole contains a limited set o keywords.

For more inormation about JumpStart and ZFS, see Chapter 9, Installing a ZFS Root Pool

With JumpStart, in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced

Installations

What'sNew in theSolaris 1010/08Release or Installation

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You can use Solaris Live Upgrade to perorm the ollowing tasks:

Migrate a UFS root (/) le system to a ZFS root pool

Create a new boot environment in the ollowing ways:

Within an existing ZFS root pool Within another ZFS root pool From a source other than the currently running system On a system with non-global zones installed

Ater you have used the lucreate command to create a ZFS boot environment, you can use

other Solaris Live Upgrade commands on the boot environment, such as the luupgrade andluactivate commands. For more inormation on using Solaris Live Upgrade or ZFS, see

Chapter 11, Solaris Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview), in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:

Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.

Structure Change or Installation Media

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, the structure o the Solaris Operating System DVD

and Solaris Sotware - 1 CD have changed or the SPARC platorm. Slice 0 is no longer at the top

o the directory structure. Thereore, the structure o the x86 and SPARC DVD and Solaris

Sotware - 1 CD are the same. This change in structure makes setting up an install server easier

i you have a mix o platorms, such as a SPARC install server and x86 media. For procedures or

setting up an install server, see the ollowing:

Chapter 5, Installing From the Network With DVD Media (Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations

Chapter 6, Installing From the Network With CD Media (Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations


Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones AreInstalled

Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, you can upgrade the Solaris OS when non-global

zones are installed without most o the limitations ound in previous releases.


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Note The only limitation to upgrading involves a Solaris Flash archive. When you use a SolarisFlash archive to install, an archive that contains non-global zones is not properly installed on

your system.

Changes to accommodate systems that have non-global zones installed are summarized below.

For the Solaris interactive installation program, you can upgrade or patch a system whennon-global zones are installed with CDs, as well as DVDs. Or you can use a networkinstallation image or either the DVD or CDs. Previously, you were limited to upgrading

with a DVD. The time to upgrade or patch might be extensive, depending on the number onon-global zones that are installed.

For an automated JumpStart installation, you can upgrade or patch with any keyword thatapplies to an upgrade or patching. In previous releases, a limited number o keywords couldbe used. The time to upgrade or patch might be extensive, depending on the number onon-global zones that are installed.

For Solaris Live Upgrade, you can upgrade or patch a system that contains non-global zones.I you have a system that contains non-global zones, Solaris Live Upgrade is therecommended upgrade program or program to add patches. Other upgrade programsmight require extensive upgrade time, because the time required to complete the upgradeincreases linearly with the number o installed non-global zones. I you are patching asystem with Solaris Live Upgrade, you do not have to take the system to single-user modeand you can maximize your system's uptime.

Solaris Live Upgrade creates a copy o the OS on the inactive boot environment. Theinactive boot environment can be upgraded or patched when non-global zones are installed.

The inactive boot environment can then be booted to become the new boot environment.Changes to accommodate systems that have non-global zones installed are the ollowing:

A new package, SUNWlucfg, is required to be installed with the other Solaris LiveUpgrade packages, SUNWlur and SUNWluu. This package is required or any system, notjust a system with non-global zones installed.

These three packages comprise the sotware needed to upgrade by using Solaris LiveUpgrade. These packages include existing sotware, new eatures, and bug xes. I you do

not install these packages on your system beore using Solaris Live Upgrade, upgradingto the target release ails.

Creating a new boot environment rom the currently running boot environmentremains the same as in previous releases with one exception. You can speciy adestination disk slice or a shared le system within a non-global zone.

The argument to the -m option has a new optional eld, zonename. This new eldenables creating the new boot environment and speciying zones that contain separatele systems. This argument places the zone's le system on a separate slice in the newboot environment.

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The lumount command now provides non-global zones with access to theircorresponding le systems that exist on inactive boot environments. When the globalzone administrator uses the lumount command to mount an inactive boot environment,

the boot environment is mounted or non-global zones as well. Comparing boot environments is enhanced. The lucompare command now generates a

comparison o boot environments that includes the contents o any non-global zone.

Listing le systems with the lufslist command is enhanced to display a list o lesystems or both the global zone and the non-global zones.

For step-by-step procedures or upgrading a system with non-global zones installed or or

inormation on the Solaris Zones partitioning technology, see the ollowing reerences.

Description For More Information

Upgrading with Solaris Live Upgrade on a systemwithnon-global zones

Chapter 8, Upgrading theSolaris OS on a SystemWith Non-Global Zones Installed, in Solaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade

Planning

Creating and using non-global zones System Administration Guide: SolarisContainers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

Upgrading with JumpStart Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart

and Advanced Installations

Upgrading with the Solaris installation interactive

GUI


New sysidkdb Tool Prevents Having to ConfgureYourKeyboard

This eature is new in the ollowing releases:

For SPARC, starting with the Solaris 10 10/06 release For x86, starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release

The sysidkdb tool congures your USB language and its corresponding keyboard layout.

The ollowing procedure occurs:

I the keyboard is sel-identiying, the keyboard language and layout automaticallycongures during installation.

I the keyboard is not sel-identiying, the sysidkdb tool provides you, during theinstallation, a list o supported keyboard layouts during installation, so that you can select alayout or keyboard conguration.



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SPARC: Previously, the USB keyboard assumed a sel-identiying value o 1 during theinstallation. Thereore, all o the keyboards that were not sel-identiying always congured ora U.S. English keyboard layout during installation.

Note PS/2 keyboards are not sel-identiying. You are asked to select the keyboard layoutduring the installation.

Prevent Prompting When You Use the JumpStart ProgramI the keyboard is not sel-identiying and you want to prevent being prompted during yourJumpStart installation, select the keyboard language in your sysidcfg le. For JumpStart

installations, the deault is or the U.S. English language. To select another language and itscorresponding keyboard layout, set the keyboard keyword in your sysidcfg le.

For more inormation, see one o the ollowing:

Preconguring With the sysidcg File in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:Network-Based Installations

sysidtool(1M) man page

sysidcfg(4) man page

NFSv4 Domain Name Confgurable During InstallationStarting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, the NFS version 4 domain can now be dened duringthe installation o the Solaris OS. Previously, the NFS domain name was dened during the rstsystem reboot ater installation.

This new eature afects installation as ollows:

The sysidtool command includes an enhanced sysidnfs4 program. The sysidnfs4program now runs during the installation process to determine whether an NFSv4 domainhas been congured or the network.

For urther inormation, see the sysidtool(1M) and sysidnfs4(1M) man pages.

During an interactive installation, the user is provided with the deault NFSv4 domain namethat is automatically derived rom the OS. The user can accept this deault. Or, the user canspeciy a diferent NFSv4 domain.

As part o a Solaris JumpStart installation, a new keyword is available in the sysidcfg le.The user can now assign a value or the NFSv4 domain by using the new keyword,nfs4_domain.

For urther inormation about this new keyword, see the sysidnfs4(1M) man page. Thisman page also provides an example o how to use this new keyword

For urther inormation about the NFSv4 domain name conguration, see the SystemAdministration Guide: Network Services

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Enhanced Security Using the Restricted NetworkingProfle

Starting with the Solaris 10 11/06 release, you can, during installation, set the deault behavioror network services to run in a much more secured manner. During an interactive installation(hands on), this new security option is provided in the installation conguration selection

screens. For automated JumpStart installations (hands of), you can select a restricted networkprole by using a newservice_profile keyword in the sysidcfg le. This security option isonly available or initial installations. An upgrade maintains all previously set services. Inecessary, you can restrict network services ater an upgrade by using the netservicescommand.

I you choose to restrict network security, numerous services are ully disabled. Other servicesare still enabled, but these services are restricted to local connections only. Secure Shell remains

available or remote administrative access to the system.

With this restricted networking prole, you reduce your risk o exposure on the Internet orLAN. The system retains ull graphical desktop use and outbound network access. For example,you can still access your graphical interace, use browsers or email clients, and mount NFSv4 leshares.

The network services can be enabled ater installation by using the netservices open

command or by enabling individual services by using SMF commands. See Revising SecuritySettings Ater Installation on page 53.

For additional inormation about this security option, see the ollowing reerences.

TABLE 21 Additional Inormation About the Limited Network Prole

Description For More Information

Administer security or network services How to Createan SMFProle in SystemAdministration Guide: Basic Administration

Reopen network services ater installation Revising Security Settings Ater Installation onpage 53

Plan installation conguration Planning Network Security on page 52

Select restricted network security during a hands-on

installation

Chapter 2, Installing With the Solaris Installation

Program For UFS File Systems (Tasks), in


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Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones AreInstalled

Solaris Zones partitioning technology provides the ability to congure non-global zones in asingle instance o Solaris, the global zone. A non-global zone is an application executionenvironment in which processes are isolated rom all other zones. Starting with the Solaris 101/06 release and i you are running a system with non-global zones installed, you can usestandard Solaris upgrade programs to upgrade. You can use either the Solaris interactiveinstallation program or custom JumpStart to upgrade. There are some limitations to upgradingwith non-global zones installed.

A limited number o custom JumpStart keywords are supported. For a list o supportedcustom JumpStart keywords, see Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart andAdvanced Installations.

You must use the Solaris Operating System DVD or a network installation image createdrom a DVD. You cannot use the Solaris Sotware CDs to upgrade a system. For moreinormation about installing with this program, see Chapter 2, Installing With the SolarisInstallation Program For UFS File Systems (Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:Basic Installations.

On a system with non-global zones installed, do not use Solaris Live Upgrade to upgradeyour system. While you can create a boot environment with the lucreate command, theluupgrade command cannot upgrade a boot environment that has non-global zonesinstalled. In that case, the upgrade ails and an error message is displayed.

For details on using the Solaris interactive installation program, see Solaris 10 10/09 InstallationGuide: Basic Installations

x86: GRUB Based Booting

Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, the open source GNU GRand Unied Boot Loader(GRUB) has been adopted in the Solaris OS or x86 based systems. GRUB is responsible orloading a boot archive into the system's memory. A boot archive is a collection o critical lesthat is needed during system startup beore the root (/) le system is mounted. The boot archiveis used to boot the Solaris OS.

The most notable change is the replacement o the Solaris Device Conguration Assistant withthe GRUB menu. The GRUB menu acilitates booting the diferent operating systems that areinstalled on your system. The GRUB menu is displayed when you boot an x86 based system.From the GRUB menu, you can select an OS instance to install by using the arrow keys. I youdo not make a selection, the deault OS instance is booted.

The GRUB based boot eature provides the ollowing improvements:

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Installation rom USB CD or DVD drives

Ability to boot rom USB storage devices

Simplied DHCP setup or PXE boot (no vendor-specic options) Elimination o all realmode drivers

Ability to use Solaris Live Upgrade and the GRUB menu to quickly activate and all back to

boot environments

For more inormation about GRUB reer to the ollowing sections.

Task GRUB Task For More Information

Installation Overview inormation about GRUB based

booting

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Overview) on page 85

Installation planning or GRUB based

booting

x86: GRUB Based Booting (Planning) on page 85

How to boot and install over thenetwork

with the GRUB menu

Installing the SystemFrom the Network With a DVD

Image in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:

Network-Based Installations

How toboot and install with the GRUBmenu and the Custom JumpStart installation

method

Perorming a Custom JumpStart Installation inSolaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and


How touse the GRUBmenuand Solaris Live

Upgrade to activate and all back to boot

environments

Activating a Boot Environment in Solaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade

Planning

Chapter 6, FailureRecovery: Falling Back to the

Original Boot Environment (Tasks), in

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Live

Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Locating the GRUB menu's menu.lst le Chapter 14, Managing the Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks),in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

SystemAdministration How to perorm systemadministration tasks

with the GRUB menu

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration System Administration Guide: Devices and File

Systems

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Upgrade Support Changes or Solaris Releases

Starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release, you can upgrade the Solaris OS rom the Solaris 8, 9,or 10 releases. Upgrades rom the Solaris 7 release are not supported.

What's New in the Solaris 10 3/05 Release or SolarisInstallation

This section describes the ollowing new installation eatures in the Solaris 10 3/05 release.

Solaris Installation Changes Including InstallationUnifcation

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, several changes in the installation o the Solaris OSprovide a more simplied and unied installation experience.

The changes include the ollowing:

This release has one installation DVD and several installation CDs. The Solaris Operating

System DVD includes the content o all the installation CDs.

Solaris Sotware 1 This CD is the only bootable CD. From this CD, you can accessboth the Solaris installation graphical user interace (GUI) and the console-basedinstallation. This CD also enables you to install selected sotware products rom both theGUI and the console-based installation.

Other Solaris Operating System CDs These CDs contain the ollowing:

Solaris packages that the sotware prompts you to install i necessary ExtraValue sotware that includes supported and unsupported sotware Installers Localized interace sotware and documentation

The Solaris Installation CD no longer exists.

For both CD and DVD media, the GUI installation is the deault (i your system has enoughmemory). However, you can speciy a console-based installation with the text boot option.

The installation process has been simplied, enabling you to select the language support atboot time, but select locales later.


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Note The (noninteractive) Solaris custom JumpStart installation method has not changed.

To install the OS, simply insert the Solaris Sotware - 1 CD or the Solaris Operating System

DVD and type one o the ollowing commands.

For the deault GUI installation (i system memory permits), type boot cdrom. For the console-based installation, type boot cdrom - text.

For instructions abouthow to install the Solaris OS by

using CDor DVD media with the newtext bootoption


For changes to setting up an installation serverwithCD media


Installations

Accessing the GUI or Console-based Installations

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, you can choose to install the sotware with a GUI orwith or without a windowing environment. I the memory is sucient, the GUI is displayed by

deault. I the memory is insucient or the GUI, other environments are displayed by deault.

You can override deaults with the nowin or text boot options. However, you are limited by the

amount o memory in your system or by installing remotely. Also, i the Solaris installation

program does not detect a video adapter, the program is automatically displayed in a

console-based environment.

For specic memory requirements, see System Requirements and Recommendations on

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Custom JumpStart Installation Package and PatchEnhancementsStarting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, when you install and upgrade the Solaris OS by usingthe custom JumpStart installation method, new customizations enable the ollowing:

A Solaris Flash installation with additional packages

The custom JumpStart prole package keyword has been enhanced to enable installing aSolaris Flash archive with additional packages. For example, you can install the same basearchive on two machines, but add a diferent set o packages to each machine. Thesepackages do not have to be a part o the Solaris OS distribution.

An installation with additional packages that might not be part o the Solaris distribution

The package keyword has also been enhanced to enable an installation with a package that isnot part o the Solaris distribution. You no longer need to write a postinstallation script toadd extra packages.

An installation with the ability to install Solaris OS patches

The new custom JumpStart prole patch keyword enables the installation o Solaris OSpatches. This eature allows the installation o a list o patches that are specied in a patchle.

For urther inormation, see Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart andAdvanced Installations.

Confguring Multiple Network Interaces During

InstallationStarting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, the Solaris installation programs enable you tocongure multiple interaces during your installation. You can precongure these interaces inthe sysidcfg le or your system. Or you can congure multiple interaces during theinstallation. For more inormation, see the ollowing documents:

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations sysidtool(1M)

sysidcfg(4)

SPARC: 64-bit Package ChangesIn previous Solaris releases, the Solaris sotware was delivered in separate packages or 32-bitcomponents and 64-bit components. Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, packaging hasbeen simplied with the delivery o most 32-bit components and 64-bit components in a singlepackage. The combined packages retain the names o the original 32-bit packages, and the64-bit packages are no longer delivered.


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The removal o the 64-bit packages simplies installation and increases perormance:

Reduces the number o packages, which simplies Custom JumpStart scripts that containlists o packages

Simplies the packaging system with only one package that groups sotware unctions

Reduces installation time because ewer packages are installed

The 64-bit packages are renamed with the ollowing conventions:

I a 64-bit package has a 32-bit counterpart, the 64-bit package is named with the 32-bitpackage name. For example, a 64-bit library such as /usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so.1previously would have been delivered in SUNWcslx, but now is delivered in SUNWcsl.The64-bit SUNWcslx package is no longer delivered.

I a package does not have a 32-bit counterpart, the x sux is removed rom the name. Forexample, SUNW1394x becomes SUNW1394.

This change means that you might need to modiy your custom JumpStart script or otherpackage installation scripts to remove reerences to the 64-bit packages.

Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates NewBoot Environment

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, you can now use the JumpStart installation method tocreate an empty boot environment when you install the Solaris Operating System. The emptyboot environment can then be populated with a Solaris Flash archive or later use.

For urther inormation, see Chapter 8, Custom JumpStart (Reerence), in Solaris 10 10/09Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations.

Reduced Networking Sotware Group

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, you can now create a more secure system with ewerenabled network services by selecting or speciying the Reduced Networking sotware group(SUNWCrnet) during your installation. The Reduced Networking sotware group providessystem administration utilities and a multiuser text-based console. SUNWCrnet enables thesystem to recognize network interaces. During the installation, you can customize yoursystem's conguration by adding sotware packages and by activating network services asneeded.

For urther inormation, see Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and

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Modiying Disk Partition Tables by Using a VirtualTable o Contents

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, the Solaris installation program now enables you toload existing slices rom the virtual table o contents (VTOC.) You can now preserve and usethe system's existing disk slice tables during your installation, rather than use the installer'sdeault disk layout.

x86: Change in Deault Boot-Disk Partition Layout

Starting with the Solaris 10 3/05 release, a new eature in the Solaris installation program is aboot-disk partition layout. This layout, by deault, accommodates the Service partition on Sunx86 based systems. This installation program enables you to preserve an existing Servicepartition.

The new deault includes the ollowing partitions.

First partition Service partition (existing size on system)

Second partition x86 boot partition (approximately 11 Mbytes)

Third partition Solaris Operating System partition (remaining space on the boot disk)

I you want to use this deault layout, select Deault when the Solaris installation program asksyou to choose a boot-disk layout.

Note I you install the Solaris OS or x86 based systems on a system that does not currently

include a Service partition, the Solaris installation program does not create a new Servicepartition. I you want to create a Service partition on your system, rst use your system'sdiagnostic CD to create the Service partition. Ater the Service partition is created, then installthe Solaris Operating System.

For inormation about how to create the Service partition, see your hardware documentation.

For more inormation, see Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and AdvancedInstallations.

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Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)

This chapter provides you with inormation about decisions you need to make beore youinstall or upgrade the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). This chapter contains theollowing sections:

Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Sotware on page 31

Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs? on page 34 Initial Installation, or Upgrade? on page 35 Choosing a Solaris Installation Method on page 35 Planning Network Security on page 52

Note This book uses the term slice, but some Solaris documentation and programs might reerto a slice as a partition.

x86: To avoid conusion, this book distinguishes between x86 fdisk partitions and the divisionswithin the Solaris fdisk partition. The x86 fdisk divisions are called partitions. The divisionswithin the Solaris fdisk partition are called slices.

Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Sotware

The ollowing task map is an overview o the steps necessary to install or upgrade the Solaris OSwhen using any installation program. Use this task map to identiy all o the decisions that youneed to make to complete the most ecient installation or your environment.

TABLE 31 Task Map: Installing or Upgradingthe Solaris Sotware

Task Description For Instructions

Choose initial installation or

upgrade.

Decide i you want to perorm an initial installation or an

upgrade.

Initial Installation, or Upgrade?

on page 35.

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Decide i you want to install a

UFS le systemor ZFS rootpool.

You can install a UFS root (/) le systemor a ZFS rootpool. Most othis bookrelates to

installing a UFS le system. Toinstall a ZFS rootpool, seeChapter 6, ZFS Root File System

Installation (Planning)

Choose an installation

program.

The Solaris OS provides several programs orinstallation or

upgrade. Choosethe installation method that is most

appropriate or your environment.

Choosing a Solaris Installation

Method on page 35

(Solaris interactive

installation program) Choosea deault or custom

installation.

Decide which type installation is suitable or your environment: I youare using a graphical user interace(GUI) you can

choosea deault or a custominstallation:

A deault installation ormats thehard disk andinstalls

a preselectedset o sotware.

A custom installation enables you to modiy thehard

disk layout andselect the sotware that youwant to

install.

I youuse a text installer(non-graphical interace), you can

select thedeault values or edit the values to select the

sotware youwant to install.

For inormation on theSolaris

installation program's choices, seeChapter 5, Gathering Inormation

Beore Installation or Upgrade

(Planning)

For initial installations only,choose open network security

or restricted network security.

For an initial installation, determine whether to disable orconstrain network services to respond to local requests only

during the installation. Thedeault is to select open network

security during installation.

Planning Network Security onpage 52

Review system requirements.Also, plan andallocatediskspace andswap space.

Determine i your systemmeets the minimum requirements toinstall or upgrade. Allocate disk space on your systemor thecomponents o the Solaris OS that youwant to install.

Determine the appropriate swap-space layout or your system.

Chapter 4, System Requirements,Guidelines, and Upgrade(Planning)

Chooseto install a system

rom local media or rom the

network.

Decideon the most appropriate installation media oryour

environment.

Installing From the Network or

From DVD orCDs? on page34


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Gather inormation about

your system.

For the Solaris installation program, complete the

worksheet to collect all o the inormation that you need to

install or upgrade.

For the custom JumpStart installation method, decide

which prole keywords to use in your prole. Then review

the keyword descriptions to nd the inormation about

your systemthat youneed.

For the Solaris installation

program, seeeither o the

ollowing documents:

For an initial installation:

Checklist or Installation

on page 57

For an upgrade: Chapter 5,

Gathering Inormation

Beore Installation orUpgrade (Planning)

For the custom JumpStart

installation method, see

Chapter 8, Custom JumpStart

(Reerence), in

Solaris 10 10/09 Installation

Guide: Custom JumpStart and


(Optional) Set systemparameters.

Youcan precongure systeminormation to avoid beingprompted or the inormation during the installation or

upgrade.

Chapter 2, Preconguring SystemConguration Inormation

(Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide: Network-BasedInstallations.

(Optional) Prepare to install

theSolaris sotware rom thenetwork.

I you chose to install the Solaris sotware rom the network,

complete the ollowing tasks. (x86 based systems) Veriy that your systemsupports PXE Create an installation server Createa boot server(i necessary)

Congure a DHCP server(i necessary)

Set up systems to be installedrom thenetwork

To install over a local area network,

see Chapter 6, Installing From theNetwork With CD Media (Tasks),

in Solaris 10 10/09 InstallationGuide: Network-Based Installations.

To install over a wide area network,

see Chapter 12, Installing With

WAN Boot (Tasks), inSolaris 10 10/09 InstallationGuide:


(Upgrade only) Perorm tasks

prior to upgrade.

Back up your systemand determine i you can upgrade with

disk space reallocation.

UpgradePlanning on page 46

Perorm an installation or

upgrade.

Use theSolaris installation method that youchose to install or

upgrade the Solaris sotware.

The chapter or chapters that

provide detailed instructions or

the installation programs.

Chapter 3 Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap) 33

Installing From theNetwork or From DVDor CDs?
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Troubleshoot installation

problems

Review the troubleshooting inormation when you encounter

problems with your installation.

Appendix A, Troubleshooting

(Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09InstallationGuide: Custom

JumpStart and Advanced

Installations

Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?

The Solaris sotware is distributed on DVD or CD media so that you can install or upgradesystems that have access to a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive.

You can set up the systems to install rom the network with remote DVD or CD images. Youmight want to set up systems this way or the ollowing reasons:

I you have systems that do not have local DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drives

I you are installing several systems and do not want to insert the discs into every local drive

to install the Solaris sotware

You can use all o the Solaris installation methods to install a system rom the network.However, by installing systems rom the network with the Solaris Flash installation eature orwith a custom JumpStart installation, you can centralize and automate the installation processin a large enterprise. For more details about the diferent installation methods, reer toChoosing a Solaris Installation Method on page 35.

Installing the Solaris sotware rom the network requires initial setup. For inormation aboutpreparing to install rom the network, choose one o the ollowing options.

For detailed instructions about preparing to install

rom a local area network

Chapter 6, Installing From theNetwork With CD

Media (Tasks), in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide:


For instructions about preparing to install over a wide

area network

Chapter 12, Installing With WAN Boot (Tasks), in


Installations

For instructions about how to install x86 based clientsover thenetwork by using PXE

Overviewo Booting andInstalling Over theNetwork With PXE in Solaris 10 10/09 Installation

Guide: Network-Based Installations


Choosing a Solaris Installation Method
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Initial Installation, or Upgrade?

You can choose to perorm an initial installation or, i your system is already running the Solaris

OS, you can upgrade your system.

Initial Installation

An initial installation overwrites the system's disk with the new version o the Solaris OS. I your

system is not running the Solaris OS, you must perorm an initial installation.

I the system is already running the Solaris OS, you can choose to perorm an initial installation.

I you want to preserve any local modications, beore you install, you must back up the local

modications. Ater you complete the installation, you can restore the local modications.

You can use any o the Solaris installation methods to perorm an initial installation. For

detailed inormation about the diferent Solaris installation methods, reer to Choosing a

Solaris Installation Method on page 35.

Upgrade

You can upgrade the Solaris OS by using two upgrade methods: standard and Solaris Live

Upgrade. A standard upgrade maintains as many existing conguration parameters as possible

o the current Solaris OS. Solaris Live Upgrade creates a copy o the current system. This copy

can be upgraded with a standard upgrade. The upgraded Solaris OS can then be switched tobecome the current system by a simple reboot. I a ailure occurs, you can switch back to the

original Solaris OS with a reboot. Solaris Live Upgrade enables you to keep your system running

while you upgrade and enables you to switch back and orth between Solaris OS releases.

For more inormation about upgrading and the list o upgrade methods, see Upgrade

Planning on page 46.


The Solaris OS provides several programs or installation or upgrade. Each installation

technology ofers diferent eatures that are designed or specic installation requirements and

environments. Use the ollowing table to help you decide which installation method to use.

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TABLE 32 Choosing Your Installation Method

Task Installation Method Reasons for Choosing This Program Instructions

Install onesystem romCD-ROM or DVD-ROM

media with an interactive

program.

Solaris installationprogram

This program divides tasks into panels,prompts youor inormation, and ofers

deault values.

This program is not an ecient method

when you have to install or upgrade

multiple systems. For batch installations

o multiple systems, use custom

JumpStart or the Solaris Flash installation

eature.

Solaris 10 10/09Installation Guide: Basic

Installations

Install onesystem over a local

area network.

Solaris installation

program over the

network

This program enables you to set upan image

o the sotwareyou want toinstall on a server

and install this image on a remotesystem. Iyou need to install multiple systems, youcan

use the network installation image with the

custom JumpStart and Solaris Flash

installation methods to eciently install or

upgrade systems on your network.

Part II, Installing Over

a Local Area Network,

in Solaris 10 10/09Installation Guide:

Network-Based

Installations

Automate the installation or

upgrade o multiple systems

based on proles you create.

Custom JumpStart This program eciently installs multiple

systems. But i you only have a ew systems,

the creation o a customJumpStart

environment might be time consuming. For aew systems, use theSolaris interactive

installation program.

Chapter 3, Preparing

Custom JumpStart

Installations (Tasks), inSolaris 10 10/09

Installation Guide:

Custom JumpStart and



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TABLE 32 Choosing YourInstallation Method (Continued)

Task Installation Method Reasons for Choosing This Program Instructions

Replicate the same sotware

and conguration on multiplesystems.

Solaris Flash archives This program saves installation time by

installing all Solaris packages at once on

your system. Other programs install each

individual Solaris package and update the

package map or each package.

Solaris Flash archives are large les and

require a signicant amount o disk

space. To manage diferent installation

congurations or to changeyourinstallation conguration, you might

consider using the custom JumpStart

installation method. Alternatively, you

can accomplish system-specic

customizations by using a JumpStart

nish script or an embedded Solaris Flash

postdeployment script.

Chapter 1, Solaris Flash

(Overview), inSolaris 10 10/09Installation Guide:

Solaris Flash Archives

(Creation andInstallation)

Install systems over a wide areanetwork (WAN) or the

Internet.

WAN boot I you want t o install a Solaris Flasha rchiveover the network, this progr

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