Sun Microsystems Solaris 7 11/99, Hardware Platform Manual

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Chapter 10 The Solaris 7 11/99 Operating Environment on the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server 175
Select 64 bit Click “Select To Include Solaris 64-bit Support” to install the
64-bit kernel. Refer to the Solaris 7 11/99 Release Notes
Supplement for instructions on how to check the operating
mode, to set the default mode, and to switch the operating
mode.
Select Software Select
Entire Distribution plus OEM Support
.
Select Disk(s) Select the disk(s) on which the software is to be installed. If you
choose a drive other than the one designated as the boot drive,
a warning message appears later in the installation process. At
that point, you can choose whether to continue, or not.
Automatically Layout
File Systems Select
Manual Layout
. The
suninstall
utility enables you to
customize the root disk by specifying disk partitions. Refer to
TABLE 10-3
on page 176 as a guide.
Mount Remote File
System Press F4 if file systems are to be mounted from a remote file
server. Press F2 if they are not.
Reboot after installation Select
manual reboot
and press F2 to begin the installation.
This step, which installs the software and the patches from the
Solaris release CD, can take approximately 40 minutes to
complete. When the install ends successfully, the superuser
prompt is displayed in the domain’s
netcon
(1M) console
window. You can now configure the Solaris operating
environment, as described in “To Configure the Solaris
Operating Environment”.
TABLE 10-2
Platform-Specific Information for the
suninstall
Utility
If you are asked to Do this