Restoring The Preinstalled Software - Sun Microsystems Ultra 10 Getting Started Manual

Restoring the Preinstalled Software

Your system comes preconfigured with the Solaris operating environment and other
preinstalled software. If a hardware failure affects your hard drive within one year
of the original purchase, the drive will be replaced under warranty. However, the
replacement drive does not come preconfigured with the Solaris operating
environment or the other preinstalled software.
Therefore you might want to make and keep a full backup of the operating system,
which can be used to restore your system if it is ever needed. Instructions for
backing up your operating system are included in the preinstalled Solaris System
Administration Guide AnswerBook2.
For reference, the following table summarizes the default disk configurations and
partitioning for the preinstalled software (both Solaris versions), after the user has
completed initial configuration.
Note – For the Solaris 8 configuration, disk slice 7 is the root partition, rather than
the traditional slice 0.
TABLE 4
Solaris 7 3/99 Preinstalled Disk Configuration
Slice
0
1
3
Note – The Solaris 7 root partition for the Japanese preinstalled image is 3000
MBytes.
You can also restore some of the software that is preinstalled on your disk from the
CDs included in the appropriate version of the Solaris Media Kit. This Media Kit
contains some of the same preinstalled software that is preinstalled on your system,
with the exception of the Java software. However, you can download these products
from the web sites listed in their respective sections in this document (also note that
some software products, such as Netscape, offer different versions than those in the
Media Kit from their respective web sites).
To restore your hard drive from the Solaris Media Kit CDs, take the following two
steps:
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Default Preinstalled Disk Configurations
Name Size (MBytes)
root 3500
swap 512
space remainder
Solaris 8 Preinstalled Disk Configuration
Mounted as Slice
0
/
NA 1
7
/space
Name Size (MBytes)
space remainder
swap 512
root 2500
Mounted as
/space
NA
/