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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade |
Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. What's New in Solaris Installation
3. Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)
4. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
System Requirements and Recommendations
Allocating Disk and Swap Space
General Disk Space Planning and Recommendations
Disk Space Recommendations for Software Groups
Upgrading and Patching Limitations
Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Instead of Upgrading
Creating an Archive That Contains Large Files
Upgrading With Disk Space Reallocation
Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading
Backing Up And Restarting Systems For an Upgrade
Revising Security Settings After Installation
x86: Partitioning Recommendations
Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition
How to Find the Version of the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running
5. Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to ZFS, Booting, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes
6. ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)
7. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
8. Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
10. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
When using the Solaris OS on x86 based systems, follow these guidelines for partitioning your system.
The Solaris installation program uses a default boot-disk partition layout. These partitions are called fdisk partitions. An fdisk partition is a logical partition of a disk drive that is dedicated to a particular operating system on x86 based systems. To install the Solaris software, you must set up at least one Solaris fdisk partition on an x86 based system. x86 based systems allow up to four different fdisk partitions on a disk. These partitions can be used to hold individual operating systems. Each operating system must be located on a unique fdisk partition. A system can only have one Solaris fdisk partition per disk.
Table 4-8 x86: Default Partitions
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The Solaris installation program uses a default boot-disk partition layout to accommodate the diagnostic or Service partition. If your system currently includes a diagnostic or Service partition, the default boot-disk partition layout enables you to preserve this partition.
Note - If you install the Solaris OS on an x86 based system that does not currently include a diagnostic or Service partition, the installation program does not create a new diagnostic or Service partition by default. If you want to create a diagnostic or Service partition on your system, see your hardware documentation.