Installation guide

Installation Issues

This chapter provides information and describes issues that relate to the installation of the

Solaris 10 Operating System.

Note – To see which bugs and issues are xed and no longer apply to the Solaris 10 10/09

software, refer to

Appendix A, “Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating

System.”

General Information

This section provides general information such as behavior changes in Solaris 10 OS.

BIOS and Firmware Upgrade

The Solaris 10 10/09 release of Solaris is tested on all supported Sun systems running the latest

combinations of the following:

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BIOS and ILOM

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SPARC Firmware and OBP and Hypervisor

For best results using the Solaris 10 10/09 release, upgrade your BIOS/Firmware to the latest

release listed in the matrix at

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/patches/firmware/

release_history.jsp

New Memory Requirements

The following are the minimum and recommended memory requirements for the Solaris 10

10/09 release:

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For UFS root le systems:

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