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Solaris 9 9/04 Operating System
Solaris 9 9/04 Operating SystemThe following information applies to systems that are preinstalled with the Solaris 9 9/04 Operating System. As an owner of one of these Sun hardware products, you can use this software according to the terms in the Right To Use certificate provided with the hardware. The software of this Solaris release is completely installed on your system, including everything installed by the "Entire Distribution plus OEM support" option. This includes all the locales supported by this Solaris release. However, some software provided in the Solaris 9 9/04 media kit has not been installed on your system. No software has been preinstalled from the following discs:
Starting To Use Solaris 9 9/04 SoftwareFirst, follow the installation instructions provided with the hardware. When you are ready to start up the preinstalled Solaris 9 9/04 OS software, perform the following steps:
Further Information About the Solaris 9 9/04 Operating SystemCollections of manuals about this Solaris release are available at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.9u904 For more details about installing Solaris software, read the "Solaris 9 9/04 Installation Guide", which is available at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5768 Sun Validation and Test Suite 5.1 SoftwareThe following software product is recommended for use with this computer, but might not have not been preinstalled on your system:
For more information on this product and other software provided on the Solaris Software Supplement CD, read the "Solaris 9 9/04 Sun Hardware Platform Guide", which is available at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6357-10 Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4.1Your system might be preinstalled with Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software 4.4.1 (the SUNWsan
package) with associated patches for use of the storage
area network (SAN) software with the Solaris 9 release.
For example, on some Sun Fire V440 systems, the following
patches are preinstalled:
For more information about this software, including recommended updates, go to http://www.sun.com/storage/san Installing Another Solaris ReleaseIf you choose to install a different Solaris release on a system in place of the preinstalled version, follow the instructions provided in the media folder for that Solaris release. However, you risk deleting all the preinstalled software on this system if you perform a new installation of any release of Solaris software, rather than performing an upgrade of the preinstalled Solaris OS. If you intend to make a fresh installation of Solaris OS, be sure all the other preinstalled software you plan to use is backed up or available to you for reinstallation. Restoring Preinstalled SoftwareThis system is not provided with media that reproduces the exact state of software preinstalled on this system. If you replace the original hard drive that contains the preinstalled software, the replacement drive will not contain the software. To be ready to restore the preinstalled software to this system in the future, prepare a backup of the software you intend to use. Order the appropriate media kit for the version preinstalled on your system:
Some software products are provided on the Solaris DVD (or on the final CD of a series of Solaris software CDs) in the ExtraValue directory. The default
Solaris installation process might not install all the
software from this directory that you intend to use.
Recent versions of these and other Sun software products are available for download from: http://www.sun.com/download After reinstalling the software, obtain and apply the most recent recommended patches for these products from: http://sunsolve.sun.com Additional Issues About Preinstalled SoftwareThe following issues might apply to systems preinstalled with Solaris 9 9/04 software. Also pay attention to issues described in the Release Notes for your software products, the Product Notes for your hardware products, and general issues about preinstalled software covered at: http://www.sun.com/software/preinstall Remote Superuser (root) Logins Enabled by Default The Solaris 9 9/04 Operating System preinstalled on your system has been modified to allow remote superuser (root) logins. This is controlled by the following entry in the /etc/default/login file:
/etc/default/login file.
When superuser access is restricted in this manner, users
who attempt to log in remotely are prevented from logging
in as superuser and can only log in with their own user
login. Only after a successful user login can the user become
superuser by issuing the su command
and superuser password.
For additional information on this and other security topics, read the Solaris 9 9/04 "System Administration Guide: Security Services" manual at this location: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0365 Driver Alias Warning in /var/adm/messages
The following warning message might appear in /var/adm/messages after booting this system:
/etc/driver_aliases file. It poses
no adverse effect on system operation and can be safely ignored.
You can prevent this warning from appearing by commenting out the following line in the /etc/driver_aliases file:
serverroot.conf Warning Seen During Boot-up
On a system with preinstalled Sun Java Enterprise System software, the following warning might be displayed during the boot process: |
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