Installation guide

Preface

This document describes the Solaris 10 10/09 operating system. For information about the

Solaris 10 3/05, Solaris 10 3/05 HW1, Solaris 10 3/05 HW2, Solaris 10 1/06, Solaris 10 6/06,

Solaris 10 11/06, Solaris 10 8/07, Solaris 10 5/08, Solaris 10 10/08, and Solaris 10 5/09 releases,

see the “Solaris 10 5/09 Release Notes”, Sun part number 820–7273.

The Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes contain installation and runtime problem details. Also

included are end-of-software support statements for the Solaris

10 Operating System.

For the latest version of the Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes document, search for Solaris 10 10/09

Release Notes on

http://docs.sun.com.

Note – This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor

architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported

systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at

http://www.sun.com/

bigadmin/hcl

. This document cites any implementation dierences between the platform

types.

In this document the term “x86” refers to 64-bit and 32-bit systems manufactured using

processors compatible with the AMD64 or Intel Xeon/Pentium product families. For supported

systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.

Who Should UseThis Book

These notes are for users and system administrators who install and use the Solaris 10 software.

Related Books

You might need to refer to the following documentation when you install Solaris software:

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Java Desktop System Release 3 Solaris 10 Collection

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Solaris 10 Start Here card

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Solaris 10 10/09 What’s New

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Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Basic Installations