+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2010-10-27 05:11:32, Jim wrote: | | I'm new to Solaris and just installed 5.10 onto a X86 AMD 64bit box. My questions (2 of them), are:
5.10 is not OpenSolaris; it's Solaris 10. The OpenSolaris distribution was 5.11 and has been cancelled. Installing it seems rather pointless. Perhaps as an Oracle employee you have access to internal builds of Solaris 11 Express. | 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 (/, 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 need to repartition your disk. Create a 100% SOLARIS fdisk partition. Install on that. Or just give it the whole disk. You don't need to create partitions... you are using ZFS, which is pooled storage. ZFS works best with whole disks. There is no real point in partitioning your root disk(s) into multiple partitions and creating multiple pools on them. It will just make ZFS grumpy. You can create datasets and set quotas on them if you care to, later. However, Solaris and Live Upgrade have historically had issues with /opt and /var being on seperate datasets. /tmp is a tmpfs and does not require its own partition. Maybe this will be helpful in understanding ZFS: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfslast.pdf | 2. I have two disks in the box. How do I see and install the second? Use Jumpstart, a custom profile, or do it post-install. Solaris manual installation is not really the way Solaris meant to be installed. Investigate the Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit. Read the Solaris Admin Guides, the ZFS Admin Guide, etc. "Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials"[1] might also be useful. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Solaris-10-System-Administration-Essentials/dp/013700009X/ -- bdha cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
