WebStart Flash Installation

WebStart Flash Installation provides a procedure to quickly install a large number of systems using a predefined system configuration. Instead of using the time-consuming process of installing software groups, clusters, and packages (as with the standard Solaris installation process), WebStart Flash provides the capability to create an archive (referred to as a Flash Archive) of a system that has already been installed and configured (a master system), and then write that archive directly to the disks of a new system.

The Flash Archive contains a copy of all the files on the master system. This means that all of the clone systems being installed need to have similar hardware configuration and require the same configuration ...

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