Now that we've explained about how to install Solaris 11 here's what we need to focus on for the exam. You need to be able to explain the differences in the Interactive Installations and that means knowing when to use the Text Based Installer and when to use the Live CD Installer. Now you typically use the Text Based Installer when installing a server or when installing on a system that has a low end graphics card or even when a system doesn't have sufficient RAM to use the Live CD Installer. You typically use the Live CD Installer itself when you want to say play around with Solaris 11 and not install it to the hard drive. You also may want to use it when you're doing a standalone installation and you just want to use the GUI and have it go nice and simple with no issues. You also need to understand what the different hardware requirements are for the different installers and they're not much but there are a few differences depending upon whether it's a Text Based or the Live CD or even the Automated Installer. You also need to understand how to verify and troubleshoot an installation and we talked about a couple of ways to do this. First making sure that everything works and that means the network connection, the Internet connection, different hardware devices, the file system and so forth. If it works you know you've got a good installation. If there were error messages during the installation or things aren't working or the installation just completely failed, then you need to know where to look for troubleshooting. For troubleshooting it's typically going to be a hardware compatibility or functionality issue. You're going to have to go and make sure that the hardware's compatible with Solaris 11 and make sure that you have the appropriate device drivers for it. You can find out this information on the Oracle site for Solaris 11. You also may want to understand just the very basics of the Automated Installer, what it's used for and when it's used. And typically it's used to install a network based repository installation that have different images and different characteristics of each image for the network and you'll use the Automated Installer for that. That's typically all you need to know about the Automated Installer at this point. So for the exam study those things and I will tell you that a very good source of information you can use other than basically just doing it yourself and practicing on a Solaris 11 installation. Is reviewing the Oracle Documentation that's on Oracle's site about Solaris 11 and there's a lot of it there. Some really good information on troubleshooting, installing and just general information about Solaris 11 itself. So take a look at that as well, it's a very good resource. And obviously studying this VTC course will help you out a lot for the exam as well.
| Course: | Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration - Exam 1Z0-821 |
| Author: | Bobby Rogers |
| SKU: | 34398 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-083-1 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-24 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |