Sun Microsystems 2500 manual Planning the Installation Process for Solaris

C H A P T E R 2

Setting Up the Preinstalled Solaris

Operating System Software

This chapter includes information about the following topics:

■Planning the Installation Process for Solaris

■Setting Up Your Operating System

■Sun Install Check

■Power Management Features

Planning the Installation Process for

Solaris

Your workstation has a dual-boot image. During the system set-up you can choose either the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 Operating System. You can only choose one Solaris Operating System. After you choose an operating system, the system automatically erases the other Solaris Operating System.

Note – The Solaris Operating System version that you select requires no licensing fee. If you Install a different version of Solaris software, you may be required to pay a license fee for the new software version.

For more information, refer to the following web site:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/index.html

The exact configuration that has been preinstalled on the hard drive is:

■Root (/) partition—14.0 Gbytes

■Swap partition—0.5 Gbytes

■/space partition—the remainder of the primary hard drive

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