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Fresh Installation of Solaris 10 on a SunFire

This document describes the required steps to install a fresh copy of Solaris 10 on the SunFire v120. I've outlined this cheat-sheet with values of my test lab. This should work on other Sun Hardware with LOM interface as well. If you have any files of value and you remember a password to logon, copy them off, before starting the setup. This guide will completely destroy anything on the SunFire. You can use this document to install Solaris 10, even if you don't remember the root password anymore.

Upgrading, Removing or Adding Software to Solaris 10

This document describes the required steps to upgrade, remove or add software to Solaris 10 on the SunFire v120. In this example I removed all additional software packages. I've outlined this cheat-sheet with values of my test lab. This should work on other Sun Hardware with LOM interface as well. You can also use this procedure to change values, if you have screwed up some config files.