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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By: Philip P. Brown

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
IPS Package Reference
New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
Index

Setting up a local install server with installadm


The installadm command is Oracle's new admin utility for system installation related issues. It consolidates and replaces things such as the old setup_install_server and add_install_client scripts.

It is surprisingly easy to install the base requirements for a local network-based install server.

// if you dont have installadm already, first do "pkg install installadm"
ARCH=i386 #or sparc
installadm create-service -n $ARCH -a $ARCH
// If you do not want it going under /export/auto_install/$ARCH,
// use -d /export/whereyouwantit

With no other options given, this will download a special package named install-image/solaris-auto-install. This is an imaged version of all of the packages in the group solaris-auto-install, suitable for a network Boot Environment. Basically, this is the set of files on the AI image. When booted off it, almost anything that applies to booting from that physical media will also apply for this net booted image.

Note that...