Summary

As you have seen in this section, Web Start provides a friendly user interface for installing the Solaris 9 operating system. It also aids in installing additional, Web Start–ready software that the interactive installation method does not.

I described how you could use the Web Start Flash archive feature to create an exact image of a particular Solaris environment and replicate it across many systems or to simply store it away in case you need to rebuild the system as a result of a system failure. I also described how the Flash archive can be used in a JumpStart session for a completely automated installation.

This concludes the discussion of Web Start. For more information on Web Start and Web Start Flash, consult the online documentation at http://docs.sun.com or the Solaris 9 Installation Guide. The next chapter will describe how to start up and shut down a Solaris system after the OS has been installed.