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CHAPTER 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