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Solaris 2.5. 1SPARe: Installation Notes 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 U.S.A. Part No: 802-5363-12 Revision A, May 1996 +SunSojt A Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business © 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043-1100 U.S.A. All rights reserved. This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution and decompilation. No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any. Portions of this product may be derived from the UNIX® system, licensed from UNIX Systems Laboratories, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc., and from the Berkeley 4.3 BSD system, licensed from the University of California. Third-party software, including font technology in this product, is protected by copyright and licensed from Sun's Suppliers. 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THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS PUBLICATION COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN, THESE CHANGES WILL BE INCORPORATED IN NEW EDITIONS OF THE PUBLICATION, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAMS(S) DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION AT ANY TIME. @ Please Recycle ~m Adobe PostScript Contents 1. Installation Issues. 1 Contacting Customer Support. 1 Viewing Information in the Online Files. 2 Installation Requirements. 3 Installation News. 9 Installation Bugs. 20 2. Late-Breaking Solaris Product News. 27 ODBC Driver Manager Support. 27 3. Late-Breaking Solaris Product Bugs. 29 4. Late-Breaking Solaris Patches. 31 Unbundled Product Patches. 32 SolarNet LAN Client 1.1. 34 5. EOL Statements. 35 Format of OS man pages Source Files. 35 Dataless Clients. 35 iii SPARCserver 600 Series. 36 Direct Xlib. 37 SPARCstorage Array - ssacli(lM) Command Obsolete.. 37 iv Solaris 2.5.1 SPARe: Installation Notes-May 1996 Preface Solaris 2.5.1 SPARC: Installation Notes contains installation problem details and other information that was not available until immediately before the release of Solaris 2.5.1 operating software. Who Should Use These Notes These notes are for users and system administrators who are installing and using Solaris 2.5.1 software. How These Notes are Organized Chapter 1, "Installation Issues," describes installation problems and installation news that arrived too late for publication in other documents. Chapter 2, "Late-Breaking Solaris Product News," contains news and information about features (non-installation) that arrived too late for publication in the SUNWrdm/news file on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD. Chapter 3, "Late-Breaking Solaris Product Bugs," describes problems (non installation) that arrived too late for publication in the SUNWrdm/bugs file on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD. Chapter 4, "Late-Breaking Solaris Patches," provides a list of patches that were not integrated into the Solaris 2.5.1 software and arrived too late for publication in the SUNWrdm/patches file on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD. v Chapter 5, "EOL Statements," provides information about features or products that are no longer supported by the Solaris 2.5.1 software and arrived too late for publication in the SUNWrdm/eol file on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD. Related Books and Online Files You may need to refer to the following manuals when installing Solaris software: • SPARC: Installing Solaris Software • SPARe: Installing Solaris Software em the Desktop For some hardware configurations, you may need supplemental hardware specific instructions for installing the Solaris operating environment. If your system requires hardware-specific actions at certain points, the manufacturer of your hardware has provided supplemental Solaris installation documentation. Refer to those documents for hardware-specific installation instructions. Once you have installed the Solaris software, refer to the online Readme package (SUNWrdm) on your Solaris 2.5.1 CD for bugs, news, and patches not relating to installation, as well as end-of life (EOL) statements. The SUNWrdm package includes a: • news file with product news and features that arrived too late to be included in the Solaris Introduction manual • bugs file with late-breaking problems • patches file with late-breaking information on current and non-integrated patches • eol file with late-breaking EOL statements vi SoIaris 2.5.1 SPARe: Installation Notes-May 1996 What Typographic Changes Mean The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book. Table P-l Typographic Conventions Typeface or Symbol Meaning Example AaBbCc123 The names of commands, Edit your . login file. files, and directories; Use Is -a to list all files. on-screen computer output machine_name% You have mail. AaBbCc123 What you type, contrasted machine_name% au with on-screen computer Password: output AaBbCc123 Command-line placeholder: To delete a file, type rm filename. replace with a real name or value AaBbCc123 Book titles, new words or Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. terms, or words to be These are called class options. emphasized You must be root to do this. Shell Prompts in Command Examples The following table shows the default system and superuser prompts for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell. Table P-2 Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell prompt machine_name % C shell superuser prompt machine_name# Bourne shell and Kom shell $ prompt Bourne shell and Kom shell # superuser prompt Preface vii viii Solaris 2.5.1 SPARe: Installation Notes-May 1996 Installation Issues This chapter describes known problems relating to the installation of the Solaris 2.5.1 software environment. Se~ the SUNWrdrn package on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD for product bugs and product news not related to installation. The SUNWrdrn package contains a: • news file with product news and features that arrived too late to be included in the Solaris Introduction manual • bugs file with late-breaking problems • patches file with late-breaking information on current and non-integrated patches • eol file with EOL statements For further information about SunSoft support see http://accessl. sun. com. To find out more about Sun Microsystems, see http://www.sun.com. Contacting Customer Support If you have any support issues, call your authorized service provider. If you do not know your service provider, please refer to the enclosed Quick Reference for Technical Support and Training. 1 Viewing Information in the Online Files If you want to view information in the news, bugs, patches, and eol files located on the Solaris 2.5.1 CD, you must install the SUNWrdm package before you can display any information in these files. 1. Log into a system and become root. 2. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. Note - The Volume Management software automatically mounts CDs on /cdrom/cdromO/sO. 3. Type: # /usr/sbin/pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdromO/sO/Solaris_2.5.1 SUNWrdm The files in the SUNWrdm package are now copied to the /usr/share/release_info/Solaris_2.5.1 directory on your hard disk. Note - The SUNWrdm package is automatically copied to your hard disk when you select the Entire Distribution cluster. If you select any other clusters, you must copy the SUNWrdm package separately. 4. Select Online Open Issues Readme. You can now view the information in the news, bugs, patches, and eol files using an editor of your choice, such as vi. Note - The size of the online SUNWrdm package is about 150 Kbytes. 2 Solaris 2.5.1 SPARe: