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hicksd8
Well as Peasant has already said, it's a matter of choice. Personally, on x86 and for ease, I would use the Solaris 11 'Live' media and the GUI install. Boot from DVD and wait for the full GUI to appear (and don't be tempted to login on the console prompt that appears, just don't touch it and wait for the GUI).
With the OS running from the Live DVD you can click on the hard drive install and follow the process. The resulting installation provides you with a Package Manager which makes it easy to install or remove add-on software. If necessary you can convert the root user from a 'role' to a 'user' should you need to actually login as root rather than use 'su'.
No it's not essential to create your own repository if you don't want to. I usually don't.
(From personal experience I have sometimes had trouble getting the network interface to start when using Solaris 11.3 x86 media which doesn't happen if I use Solaris 11.1 and then upgrade over the web to 11.3. I have mentioned this on this forum before so search for it. This is personal experience only and not seconded by anyone else (yet). I'm just mentioning because should you have this problem, it's not something you've done wrong IMHO. Of course, the problem may not happen on your hardware.)
Thank you hicksd8. Appreciate your input. I might used live media
Regarding IPS, what is the main purpose of this? I'm reading oracle document, and they suggesting to use, and this was required for solaris 11.