Installation guide

To test an upgrade profile, you must run the pfinstall −D command on the
system that you’re going to upgrade (against the system’s disk configuration). You
cannot test an upgrade profile using a disk configuration file.
For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.
Changing a System’s Boot Device
The Solaris 2.6 release now enables you to change a system’s boot device during the
installation. A system’s boot device is the disk slice where the root file system is
installed and, consequently, where the installed system will boot from.
Also, the installation program can now update the system’s EEPROM if you change
the new boot device, so the system can automatically boot from it (SPARC systems
only). In previous releases, changing the system’s boot device during an installation
meant that you had to manually change the system’s EEPROM so it could
automatically boot from the new boot device.
This new feature is provided in the interactive Solaris installation program and by
the new custom JumpStart boot_device profile keyword.
For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.
Preconfiguring System Configuration Information
In previous releases, the first part of the Solaris installation program tried to obtain
system configuration information about a system (such as the system’s peripheral
devices, host name, IP address, name service) from the name service databases. The
installation program prompted you if it couldn’t find the information. If you didn’t
want to be prompted, you had to preconfigure the system configuration information
in the name service.
Using the Solaris 2.6 sysidcfg file, you can now preconfigure system configuration
information through a set of keywords. You can choose to provide one or more of
the keywords to preconfigure varying levels of system configuration information.
The sysidcfg file can reside on a remote system or on a UFS or PCFS diskette in
the system’s local diskette drive. If you choose to put the sysidcfg file on a remote
system, you have to use the −p option of the add_install_client command to
specify where the system being installed can find the sysidcfg file.
When installing the base (English) Solaris 2.6 CD, you’ll be prompted to select an
English locale, because a new, 8–bit English local (en_US) has been added to Solaris
2.6. If you don’t want to be prompted for the locale, you must preconfigure the locale
information. For more information about the new en_US locale, see the “New
Locales in the Base Installation.”
For more information, see Solaris Advanced Installation Guide.
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