NIS domain | The group of systems sharing NIS configuration information. |
O |
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offline diagnostic | Diagnostic utilities stored in the boot area or service partition able to run without the operating |
environment (ODE) | system. |
optional | With 11i v3, software bundles that are not installed with |
| bundles before installation. |
P |
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partition | A portion of a disk device that appears to volume managers, file systems, and other OS software |
| as a disk device. Partitions allow different portions of a disk to hold content needed for boot, OS |
| file systems, diagnostic tools, and other information. |
pax | An |
| |
| cpio(1). |
PDC | |
persistent DSF | A DSF conforming to the naming model introduced in |
| The device file name contains an instance number, such as /dev/disk/disk#, and the minor |
| number has no hardware path information. |
physical location | Device identifier that uses information such as cabinet, bay, and LUN ID to indicate where the |
| device is actually located. Used to indicate a specific device independent of I/O path changes. |
pkg_rec_depot | An |
| in order to distribute |
| recovery. See pkg_rec_depot(1M). |
print_manifest | An |
| original manifest, or gather information about the current system when it runs. See |
| print_manifest(1M). |
processor | The firmware that implements all |
dependent code | |
| loader (ISL). Firmware behavior varies depending on the hardware series. See pdc(1M). |
product | In |
PXE | Stands for preboot execution environment. A protocol built on top of DHCP on |
| systems used to request boot services from a server in order to load the operating system. |
R |
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reboot | To stop all running code including the kernel, restart a computer, and boot the system. See |
| shutdown(1M) and reboot(1M). |
RECCMDS | A compressed tar archive of commands required for expert recovery on |
RECCMDSIA | A compressed tar archive of commands required for expert recovery on |
recommended | With 11i v3, software bundles that are recommended and must be installed with |
| they fulfill required software dependencies, if any exist. You can deselect the bundles before |
| |
recover | Perform a system recovery. |
recovery | See system recovery. |
recovery archive | An archive that retains host specific customizations from the system. |
recovery image | A |
| all files and directories essential to bringing up a functional system, as well as optionally including |
| specified data on a disk, volume group, file, or directory basis. It is created with |
| |
recovery shell | See expert recovery. |
264 Glossary