What's in the Worksheets

The worksheets list information that may need to be supplied during the Solaris installation program. There are separate worksheets for the initial and upgrade options.

How to Use the Worksheets

The worksheets can be used before installing Solaris software, or to record your responses when you install Solaris software. For example, if you're a system administrator of a large site and need to delegate the task of installing Solaris software to less-experienced staff, you can fill out the worksheet in advance; installers will know exactly how you want them to install Solaris software on their system, thus reducing the errors that come from guessing.

Note - If you're using the following worksheet to gather information before installing Solaris software, you can ignore shaded areas if you are installing a system as a standalone, non-networked system.

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Worksheet for the Initial Installation Option

The following worksheet lists important information you may need to supply when installing Solaris software on a system for the first time.

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
What type of terminal are you using?	Terminal type that you are installing Solaris software Example: 8) Sun Workstation
Keyboard language	Language your keyboard supports. Example: UK English
Graphics card	Type of graphics card in your system. Example: Diamond Viper
Screen size	Size of the screen on your monitor from the following list: - 15 inch - 17 inch - 19 inch
Color depth	Number of bits for the color plane that the graphics card supports. Example: 8, 24
Display resolution	Screen resolution. Example: 640 X 480

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
Monitor type	Type of monitor. IBM-VGA (31.5kHz)
Pointing device	Type of mouse. Example: PS/2 style built in mouse
Host name	Host name of the system. Example: sherlock
Network connectivity	Is the system connected to a network?
Primary network interface	Primary network interface for the system. Example: smc0
IP address	Internet(TM) protocol address of the system you're installing. Example: 129.221.2.1
Name service	Is the system a client of NIS+ or NIS? Part of another name service? Or is a name service not yet established? Example: Other, DCE
Domain name	Domain in which the system resides. Example: chandy.West.Arp.COM

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
Name server	Specify a name server for the system, or have software try to find one?
Name server information	Name server's host name and IP address. Example: toucan, 125.221.2.1
Subnet	Is the system part of a subnet?
Netmask	Netmask of the subnet. Example: 255.255.0.0
Time zone	Default time zone. Can be set by selecting geographic region, hours offset from GMT, or by pointing to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. Example: US/Mountain
System type	System type: standalone system, OS server, or dataless client?
Select platforms	All the platforms for clients that are different from the OS server's platform (see Appendix C, "Platform Names and Groups").

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
Allocate client services	Number of clients the OS server will support. Example: 5 (default) Number of megabytes of swap, root, or both to assign clients. Example: 24 Mbytes (default)
Dataless clients	Note: SunSoft plans to remove support for the dataless client system type after Solaris 2.5. You can select this system type now, but in future releases you will need to select a different type. Host names and IP addresses of the server(s) where dataless clients will mount their /usr file systems. Example: morton, 112.221.2.1, /export/home
Languages	Language(s) to select for displaying the user interface after installing Solaris software. Example: French, Spanish

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
Software	Which software group to install? · Core · End user system support · Developer system support · Entire distribution Should the software group be customized? Note: Removing or adding software often creates software dependencies; system administration knowledge is often required to fix dependencies.
Disk(s) to install Solaris software on	Disk(s) for installing Solaris. Example: c0t0d0, c0t3d0, c0t4d1
Create Solaris partition	If there is no Solaris partition on any of the disks selected, a Solaris partition must be created. Which partition, 1-4? What size should it be? Example: Solaris on partition 3, 198 Mbytes.
Auto-layout file systems?	Should file systems be laid out on disks automatically or manually? Note: Manual layout requires advanced system administration skills.

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
File systems to auto-layout	Which file systems should be used for auto-layout? Example: /, /opt, /var
Preserve existing data?	Should existing data on disk(s) be preserved?
Disk slices to preserve data	Which slices should be preserved? Example: /opt on c0t2d2
File system and disk layout	Accept the layout of file systems as created by auto-layout or manual layout, or customize? Note: Customizing requires advanced system administration skills.
Mount remote file systems?	Mount remote file systems from a server?

Information You May Need When Installing Solaris	Description/Example	Work Space
Mount remote file systems	Provide remote file system information: · Local mount point · Server's host name · Server's IP address · File system path Example: Server: mitra Server IP address: 129.222.2.2 File system path: /export/home Local mount point: /export
Reboot	Reboot after installing Solaris?
Root password	Create root password. Example: cat6file