Installation guide

Use Solaris Web Start to select exactly the software combination to suit your needs,
or just click the Default Installation... button to install the default software selections
immediately.
How Does Solaris Web Start Work?
Solaris Web Start lets you choose the product box software you want to install on
your machine and creates a profile that reflects your software selections (or the
default selections).
Solaris Web Start uses the Solaris JumpStart
TM
utility to read the profile automatically,
thus installing the Solaris software and the other selected software products with
minimal intervention.
About Solaris Web Start’s Defaults and
Limitations
Table 4–1 summarizes what Solaris Web Start does and does not let you do, as well
as what it does by default.
TABLE 4–1 Solaris Web Start’s Defaults and Limitations
Does by Default... Lets You... Doesn’t Let You...
Creates root and swap partitions
on the system disk
Change the size of partitions —
Sets up the system disk Set up other disks using Lay Out
File Systems in the Customized
Installation option
—
Creates an /opt partition for
co-packaged software
Create additional partitions and
file systems
Store co-packaged software in a
partition other than /opt
Installs English versions of Solaris Choose additionally to install
localized Solaris versions
Omit installation of the English
version of Solaris
Solaris Web Start “decides” dynamically what products to install by default. This
decision is based on:
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997