Standalone Systems

A networked standalone system can share information with other systems in the network, but it can continue to function if detached from the network.

A standalone system can function autonomously because it has its own hard disk that contains the root (/), /usr, and /export/home file systems and swap space. The standalone system thus has local access to operating system software, executables, virtual memory space, and user-created files.

A standalone system requires sufficient disk space to hold its necessary file systems.

A non-networked standalone system is a standalone system with all the characteristics listed above, except it is not connected to a network.