Sun Microsystems B200X BLADE, B1600, B100X manual Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade

C H A P T E R 3

Solaris x86

This chapter contains the following sections:

■Section 3.1, “Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade” on page 3-1

■Section 3.2, “Applying Mandatory Software Patches to the Solaris x86 Install Image” on page 3-3

■Section 3.3, “Issues Affecting B100x and B200x Server Blades That are Running Solaris x86” on page 3-8

Note – If you intend to use the Solaris x86 CD media (instead of the DVD media), you need to use a Solaris x86 system to read the CDs. For more information, refer to Chapter 12 of the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. The section of that chapter that you require is called “To Create an x86 Install Server on a SPARC System With x86 CD Media”. To use the DVD media, refer to Chapter 11 of the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. The section you require is called “Preparing to Install From the Network with DVD Media (Tasks)”.

3.1Preparing to Install Solaris x86 Onto a Blade

Before you start to install Solaris x86 onto a B100x or B200x Blade, please perform the steps in this section.

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