What information should I have before an install?
- Size of your disk
- Ethernet hardware address
- IP address
- Bandwidth of your video card and monitor
- Maximum vertical frequency your video card will drive
- Mouse type
The size of your disk determines what cluster you are going to install on
your system. I.e., an End User cluster, a Developers Cluster or the
Complete Cluster. See references to how to size your OS when installing.
The Ethernet hardware address from your Ethernet card would be helpful if
you're on a NIS net and your going to do net installs. You would like to
have the Ethernet address in the /etc/ethers map file before you do an
install. Usually the manufacturer of an Ethernet card will have some
software that you can run under DOS to display this number or sometimes
you can find the Ethernet number on a sticker right on the Ethernet card.
If this is on a standalone network you probably don't need to know the
Ethernet hardware address. Don't confuse this with the software IP address.
Bandwidth of your monitor and video card are important. During the install
the install process is going to ask you for the size of your monitor and
what vertical resolution you want to drive the monitor at. Note that in
the update disk documentation they give a handy dandy monitor resolution
bandwidth for monitors in the appendix. You may want to check this out.
See other references on video cards and monitors throughout the FAQ.
The install process will ask you about your mouse type.
[From Bob Palowoda's Solaris 2.4 x86 FAQ]
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