Solaris uses a few different mechanisms to start up services and processes at boot time. Where do all the running processes come from? Can you find from where they were started?
I'd recommend consulting your course material.
sounds like a homework question.
if not, what is this in reference to?
hi gc40,
no offense, but i think that is a very BIG lines.
and for the system service part : try read svcadm on BigAdmin.
HTH.
And thats for Solaris 10 
not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but its something thats helped me in the past.
Identifying the Phases of the Boot Process | Learning solaris 10
@ incredible
meaning?
and what do you suggest?
this way - you are not helping the OP at all.
no offense.
Hi,
I hope I can answer some of your question.
Processes are started during the init phase. The init daemon reads the entry in the /etc/inittab file, which tell when and what to do with the process (ex. process at run level 3, and wait until the process is done.)
But Solaris 10 implement a new utility/command 'svcadm milestone'. If milestone is used the entry in /etc/inittab is ignored.
process under the /etc/init.d and /etc/rc2.d - rc3.d gets initialised and starts up when a system is booted up. In solaris 10, some of these services and network and app daemons use the SMF