Solaris Express Installation Guide: Basic Installations
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Table P-1 lists related information that you need when you install the Solaris software.

Table P-1 Related Information

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Description

Solaris Express Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade

Guides you through planning the installation or upgrade of the Solaris operating system. This book provides overviews of all the Solaris installation programs. This book also provides overviews of the following features as they relate to installation:

  • GRUB, the open-source boot loader

  • Solaris Zones partitioning technology

  • RAID-1 volumes that can be created at installation time

Solaris Express, Developer Edition Installation Guide: Laptop Installations

Describes how to install the Solaris Express, Developer Edition on an x86 laptop. The Solaris Express, Developer Edition provides a quick initial installation of the Solaris Operating System (OS) for x86 based systems. This release includes the tools, technologies, and platforms to create Solaris, JavaTM, and Web 2.0 applications.


Note - The 2/07 release of the new Solaris Express, Developer Edition is only for x86 platforms. However, developers on SPARC systems can obtain similar functionality by downloading Solaris Express, Community Edition and then installing Sun Studio and NetBeans IDE 5.5 with NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.

Downloads are available at the following Web sites:


Solaris Express Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations

Describes how to perform a remote Solaris installation over a local area network or a wide area network.

Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Describes how to use Solaris Live Upgrade to create and upgrade new boot environments.

Solaris Express Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations

Describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended custom JumpStartTM installation.

Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)

Provides instructions for creating Solaris Flash archives and using Solaris Flash archives to install the Solaris OS on multiple systems.

System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Describes how to back up system files and other system administration tasks.

Solaris Express Release Notes

Describes any bugs, known problems, software that is being discontinued, and patches that are related to the Solaris release.

SPARC: Solaris Sun Hardware Platform Guide on http://docs.sun.com

Contains information about supported hardware.

Solaris Express Package List

Lists and describes the packages in the Solaris Express OS.

x86: Solaris Hardware Compatibility List

Contains supported hardware information and device configuration details.

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