> This looks like a duplicate posting ... > > It is - sorry for the dup but I posted here after someone said I'd get a better response than on osol-discuss
> Use one fdisk partition with multiple slices. Solaris doesn't support > having more than one Solaris-type fdisk partition. If you set up your > system that way, it just won't work. > > Typically, people use around four slices for an LU configuration. Two > are equal-sized, and are used for the boot environment root file > systems. One is for swap/dump. And the fourth is for local storage > (e.g., /export/home or a ZFS pool). > Good thing I asked! - I was actually planning on doing the opposite... thanks James! > Yes, that should work, but (in general) I don't recommend attempting > to "minimize" the system by removing packages. It ends up being > extremely painful to craft a custom set of packages for desired > features. > > Instead, just turn off the things you don't want. Disk space is > cheap, and your time isn't. > I wish it were so easy! The thing is that I want to install a OpenSolaris based Xen Dom0 (crossbow rocks!) on to a 4GB compact flash (note: syslogs will be forwarded and the DomU images will be mounted off a SAN). Assuming I have two ~2GB root slices, the "End User Solaris Software Group" is too big and the "Core System Support Software Group" is not enough. Until SUN provides a "Xen System Support Software Group", I have to add a few packages to SUNWcreq (xvm plus its dependencies: mostly python and java). Anyway, if you say that live-upgrade upgrades "packages" (not software groups), then I should be fine... Thanks! Kent
