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................................................................... 19 Support for Products Not Part of the Solaris OS ...................................................................... 20 Before You Begin ................................................................................................................................. 20 Installation Change for the Solaris Companion DVD ............................................................. 20 Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Zones .................................................................................... 20 Patching Miniroot on x86 Machines ......................................................................................... 21 Correct Solaris Data Encryption Supplement Required for Use of Longer Key Lengths on Solaris 10 Updates ........................................................................................................................ 21 Additional Procedures Required When Installing Patches for Solaris 10 11/06 Release .... 22 Sun Fire V250 Server Installation ............................................................................................... 23 NFS Version 4 Introduces New Prompt at First System Boot ................................................ 23 x86: Systems With elx or pcelx NICs Fail Network Configuration ..................................... 24 Default Size of /var File System Inadequate for Extra Value Products ................................. 24 x86: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13 ....................................................................................................................................... 26 SPARC: Older Firmware Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update ......................................... 26 Additional Patches Are Needed to Run Solaris Live Upgrade ................................................ 27 Limitation When Installing Solaris Live Upgrade Packages ................................................... 27 Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software .......................................................................................... 28 SPARC: Upgrade Hangs on Sun Blade 1500 Workstations (6363365) .................................. 30 x86: Failure of BIOS Device Utility Prevents Installation or Upgrade From Being Completed (6362108) .................................................................................................................. 30 Upgrade Option Unavailable if the Root (/) File System Is a RAID-1 Volume (Mirror) 3 Contents (6263122) ...................................................................................................................................... 31 Cannot Create a Solaris Flash Archive When Solaris Zones Are Installed (6246943) ......... 33 x86: Sun Java Workstations 2100Z Might Panic When Booting From Solaris 10 Operating System DVD (6214356) ............................................................................................................... 34 x86: Serial Consoles of Some Sun Fire Systems Do Not Work (6208412) ............................. 35 Solaris Installation GUI Program Might Fail on Systems With Existing x86 fdisk Boot Partitions (6186606) .................................................................................................................... 36 x86: X Server Unable to Open Mouse Device in Sun LX50 Servers (5027771) ..................... 37 Installation Bugs .................................................................................................................................. 37 Locales Problem After Upgrading a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (6494427) ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Zones With an fs Resource Defined With a Type of lofs Cannot Be Upgraded to Solaris 10 11/06 (6454140) ............................................................................................................................ 38 SPARC: Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Causes Sun4v System to Hang (6411690) .......... 38 x86: Install Hangs on Systems With 512 Mbyte of Memory (6423854) ................................. 39 x86: SVM Upgrade Fails From Solaris 9 9/05 OS to Solaris 10 11/06 or to Solaris Express (6397251) ...................................................................................................................................... 40 Solaris Not Sending a PRLI to Tape Device (6379955) ............................................................ 40 x86: Custom JumpStart Profile Test Fails With Locale Keyword (6340509) ........................ 40 x86: Invalid /sbin/dhcpinfo Error During Installation (6332044) ...................................... 41 x86: Installation From CD Media Appears to Hang After Reboot Selection (6270371) ...... 42 x86: kdmconfig Program Runs Twice After Initial Installation (6209092) ........................... 43 x86: System Fails to Boot After Custom JumpStart Installation (6205478) .......................... 43 x86: GUI Interactive Installation From DVD Fails if boot-device Variable Is Not Set (5065465)