Preface

The Solaris 10 6/06 Package List lists and describes the packages included in the Solaris^TM 10 6/06 Operating System (Solaris OS). The list includes information about the software groups that contain each package.

Note –

This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the Solaris software.

Related Books

The following table lists related information that you need when you install the Solaris software.

Table P–1 Related Information


Information	Description
Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Basic Installations	This book describes how to perform a basic Solaris installation with a graphical user interface (GUI).
Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations	This book describes how to perform a remote Solaris installation over a local area network or a wide area network.
Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning	This book describes how to use CD or DVD media to upgrade a system to the Solaris operating system. This book also describes how to use the Solaris Live Upgrade feature to create and maintain boot environments, and how to upgrade systems to these boot environments.
Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations	This book describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended custom JumpStart installation. This book also describes how to create RAID-1 volumes during a JumpStart installation.
Solaris 10 6/06 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)	This book describes how to create a Solaris Flash archive and deploy the archive over the network to quickly install the Solaris OS. This book also describes how to maintain these archives, and how to quickly update clone systems by using differential Flash archives.
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems	This book describes how to back up system files.
Solaris 10 6/06 Release Notes	This book describes any bugs, known problems, software that is being discontinued, and patches that are related to the Solaris release.
SPARC: Solaris 10 Sun Hardware Platform Guide	This book contains information about supported hardware.
x86: Solaris Hardware Compatibility List	This list contains supported hardware information and device configuration details.

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun^TM web site provides information about the following additional resources: