Archive for November, 2005

The second objective in section 1 states:

Perform an OS installation from CD / DVD for SPARC, x64, and x86- based systems.

The Sun docs for installing/upgrading on SPARC are here. There are three options for the interface while installing or upgrading. There is a full GUI (boot cdrom), a plain, wholesome text-only console session (boot cdrom - nowin), and a hybrid, the text session in a graphical windows (boot cdrom - text). The boot cdrom … command is issued at the ok> prompt. The parameter cdrom is used whether the drive is a CD or DVD drive as it is just a device alias for the CD or DVD drive in the system.
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This is the first objective for the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 exam and it is a vague one. Here is the official objective:

Explain the Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options for CD / DVD, including how to provide Minimal Installations for SPARC, x64, and x86-based systems.

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This category is meant to help prepare for the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10, Part 1, exam (that’s a mouthful). Sun’s certifications do not lend themselves to the catchy acronyms like other certifications either by strange letter combinations or because they are less frequently attained. Whatever the case, this study guide will follow the objectives listed on the page linked above. If you’ve never taken a Sun exam before, the most important piece of advice I can give is that they don’t stray from the objectives. Know the objectives and you can pass the exam.
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