> Hello ... > > I'm new to Solaris and just installed 5.10 onto a X86 > AMD 64bit box. My questions (2 of them), are: > > 1. During the install, you're offered the choices of > installing onto one of four partitions, of which one > has to be SOLARIS or the whole disk ... you're not > given the opportunity to build your own partitions
These are actually slices in Solaris parlance - don't mix them with FDISK partitions. You can modify them if you select UFS for the boot disk. If you select ZFS, the only choice you have is about separate /var (which I never bother with). > (/, home, boot, opt, var, tmp ...) ... I realize it > lays down a ZFS file system that contains all of > those for you, but how do I give it more room? It > only installed onto 4 GB of a 360 GB HDD. So how do I > expand/enlarge/resize my root and etc? You have to select options 3 or 4 - I usually go with 4 - just console. Only in this case you will get the choice between UFS and ZFS (apparently there are some reasons even now to go for UFS, but I don't know them, and frankly speaking, don't want to know them - ZFS all the way... ). > > 2. I have two disks in the box. How do I see and > install the second? You should get a screen with the discovered disks; it will show the first one as selected by default, but you can select the second one and deselect the first. It's your problem how to boot from it next, though - it may be a BIOS setting or you could install some boot manager on the first disk, capable of booting from the second (I usually use NetBSD boot manager - my laptop bots natively W7, OpenSolaris and NetBSD from the internal disk, plus some other systems - xBSD and various Solaris instances off external USB disk and even from stick). > > Thanks > > JDL Chreers, Chavdar Ivanov -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
