Installing The Opensolaris Operating System; System Requirements - Sun Microsystems Sun Ultra 27 Operating System Installation Manual

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C H A P T E R

Installing the OpenSolaris Operating System

This chapter provides information about installing the OpenSolaris OS on your workstation if
your workstation did not come with the preinstalled OpenSolaris OS option.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 (x86/x64) is the minimum version supported for your Sun Ultra 27
Workstation. If you do not already have the latest LiveCD distribution media, you can
download it from:
http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp
Note –
image, refer to the Sun Ultra 27 Workstation Installation Guide (820-6771) for setup
instructions. Do not follow the instructions listed here.
This chapter includes the following sections:
"System Requirements" on page 11
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"Preparing for OpenSolaris OS Installation" on page 12
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"Installing OpenSolaris" on page 14
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"Post OpenSolaris Installation Tasks" on page 15
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System Requirements

The following table outlines the various requirements for installing the OpenSolaris 2009.06
operating system on your workstation.
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For information describing how to configure the optional preinstalled OpenSolaris OS
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