Boot Environment (BE) is a bootable instance of the image of the Oracle Solaris operating system and of any other software packages  installed in this image. Think in your particular OS, let's say Windows 7, with all your programs and updates installed on it,  creating a BE of this OS is to have all your  programs and updates saved in a partition as a file, where you can boot in case the main one in use gets corrupted for instance. However, Boot Environment belongs particularly for Solaris be...

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