Creating Web Start Flash Archives (Tasks)
This chapter provides the procedures for creating a Web Start Flash archive.
Task Map: Creating Web Start Flash Archives
Table 18-1 Task Map: Creating a Web Start Flash Archive
Task | Description | For Instructions |
|---|---|---|
Install your chosen configuration on the master system. | Determine the configuration that meets your needs and use any of the Solaris installation methods to install the master system. | Chapter 2, Planning for a Solaris Installation or Upgrade (Overview) |
Create the Web Start Flash archive. | Use the flarcreate command to create an archive. |
Creating Web Start Flash Archives Tasks
This section provides the procedures for installing a master system and then creating a Web Start Flash archive from that master system.
To Install the Master System
You install the master system with the configuration that you want other systems to have. Use any of the Solaris installation methods to install the Solaris operating environment on the master system.
Identify the system configuration that you want to install.
With the use of the Solaris installation methods, install the Solaris operating environment on the master system. For a discussion of the different installation methods, refer to Chapter 3, Choosing a Solaris Installation Method (Overview).
Customize your Solaris installation in any of the following ways:
Delete software
Add software
Modify configuration files
Add support for peripheral devices on the clone system
To Create a Web Start Flash Archive
After you install the master system, create a Web Start Flash archive to use to install other systems.
Boot the master system and run it in as inactive a state as possible.
When possible, run the system in single-user mode. If that is not possible, shut down any applications that you want to archive and any applications that require extensive operating system resources.
You can create a Web Start Flash archive while the master system is running in multiuser mode, single-user mode, or while booted from one of the following:
Solaris 9 DVD.
Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD.
An image of the Solaris 9 Software. If you are using CD media, the image could include the Solaris 9 Languages CD if needed.
To create the archive, use the flarcreate command.
# flarcreate -n name options path/filename
name
The name that you give the archive. The name you specify is the value of the content_name keyword.
path
The path to the directory in which you want to save the archive file. If you do not specify a path to save the archive, flarcreate saves the archive file in the current directory.
filename
The name of the archive file.
For a list of command-line options, refer to "flarcreate".
If the archive creation is successful, the flarcreate command returns an exit code of 0. If the archive creation fails, the flarcreate command returns a nonzero exit code.