Technical data
Installation Issues
This chapter describes problems that relate to the installation of the Solaris 10 Operating
System.
Note – Some of the issues and bugs in this chapter have been xed in subsequent Solaris 10
releases. If you have upgraded your Solaris software, certain issues and bugs in this chapter
might no longer apply. To see which bugs and issues no longer apply to your specic Solaris 10
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.
New Minimum Memory Requirement
Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, all x86 based systems must now have at least 384
Mbytes of RAM to run the Solaris software.
Changes in Upgrade Support for Solaris Releases
Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, for SPARC systems, you can upgrade the Solaris OS
only from the following releases:
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Solaris 8 OS
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Solaris 9 OS
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Solaris 10 OS
For x86 systems, you can upgrade the Solaris OS only from the following releases:
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