Unlike Linux, Solaris uses an FDISK partition as a view of the disk. Solaris then puts its own partition table called VTOC, which allows on to create "slices" from the Solaris fdisk partition. It's with these slices that one allocates, swap, home directory etc,. Note that there can be [b]only[/b]one solaris fdisk partition. It is named solaris2 partition.
Solaris Installer at one point will display the default layout. The file systems /, swap and /export/home are mapped to various slices. When the installer displays the default layout, it allows the user to customize it. Choose "customize" to change the defaults. I typically allocate slice 3 to be the same size as slice 0 (which is the default root). I allocate swap to be about the size of memory. The remaining I allocate to a slice but don't create a defined mount point. After the installation is complete you can, as root, add the unallocated partition to a ZFS pool. One can try different versions of Solaris using Live Upgrade. -Sanjay This message posted from opensolaris.org
