Two-Minute Drill

Understanding JumpStart

q	For the JumpStart installation to work, you must prepare the rules file that contains a rule for each machine or group of machines on which the JumpStart will perform installations.
q	Each rule points to a profile file that is used to perform installations on each machine that matches the system attributes in the rule. You create a profile for a machine or a group of machines cm which an installation needs to be performed.
q	Before the JumpStart program can use the rules and the profiles, you need to run the check script to validate the rules and the associated profile files. If the rules and the profiles are verified to be correct, the rules.ok file is generated, which is used by the JumpStart program.
q	If the installation is to be made over the network, you need to set up the rules and profile files on a server in the JumpStart directory.

Implementing JumpStart

q	You implement the JumpStart server by setting up an install server, a boot server, and the JumpStart directory.
q	You set up the install server by copying the images of the installation software to the local disk of the server machine by using the setup_install_server machine.
q	You set up the boot server by copying the boot image from the installation CD (or DVD) to the server machine by using the setup_install_server machine.
q	You use the add_install_client command to add clients to the install server.

Understanding and Using the Flash Archive

q	The flash archive installation method involves creating a reference image of an already existing Solaris system and then using any basic installation method to install that image on multiple machines, which would be clones.
q	The flar command combined with subcommands such as create and info is used to manage the flash archives.

Booting and Installing with PXE

q	You can boot an x86-based machine that supports Intel Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) over the network; you can install Solaris on it by using a standard installation method,
q	To set up a DHCP server to make a PXE boot work, you can use either the DHCP manager or the command-line utility dhcpconfig.

Managing Solaris Zones

q	At any time during its life cycle, a zone is in one of its six possible states: configured, incomplete, installed, ready, running, or shutting down.
q	The zonecfg command is used to create and configure a zone.
q	The zoneadm command is used to administer a zone after it has been configured, such as installing/uninstalling, booting, running, and halting.