Installation guide

Contents
Preface ...................................................................................................................................................13
1 Installation Issues ................................................................................................................................17
General Information ........................................................................................................................... 17
BIOS and Firmware Upgrade ..................................................................................................... 17
New Memory Requirements ....................................................................................................... 17
Changes in Upgrade Support for Solaris Releases ................................................................... 18
Support for Products Not Part of the Solaris OS ...................................................................... 18
Before You Begin ................................................................................................................................. 19
Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Zones .................................................................................... 19
Solaris Live Upgrade Restrictions .............................................................................................. 19
Using Solaris Live Upgrade With a Zone Root on a ZFS File System .................................... 20
Upgrading a Solaris Trusted Extensions System That is Congured with Labeled Zones . 21
Patching Miniroot on SPARC and x86 Machines .................................................................... 22
Solaris Data Encryption Supplement on Solaris 10 Updates .................................................. 22
Additional Procedures Required When Installing GNOME Display Manager Patches for
Solaris 10 10/09 Release ............................................................................................................... 23
x86: Systems With elx or pcelx NICs Fail Network Conguration ..................................... 23
Default Size of /var File System Inadequate ............................................................................. 23
x86: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version
GG.06.13 ....................................................................................................................................... 24
SPARC: Older Firmware Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update ......................................... 25
Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris Management
Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software .......................................................................................... 26
x86: Failure of BIOS Device Utility Prevents Installation or Upgrade From Being
Completed (6362108) .................................................................................................................. 28
Cannot Create a Solaris Flash Archive When Solaris Zones Are Installed (6246943) ......... 29
x86: Sun Java Workstations 2100Z Might Panic When Booting From Solaris 10 Operating
System DVD (6214356) ............................................................................................................... 30
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