[SunHELP] swap in solaris 8

[Frank-Christian Kruegel]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:21:49 +0530, you wrote:

>           I have  SUN E3500 server with 2 GB ram. I attached a new A5200
>arrays with 7 nos of 36.4 GB hard disks
>and tried to install solrais 8.
>
>          I had the following porblem. The installation did not allow me to
>configure the swap space.It automatically
>took around 36 GB as swap space and allocated one disk to it and I had to
>create the root,usr,var,opt in the
>second disk.
>
>What could be the problem...Can anybody help me???
>
>even though the memory is only 2GB why did it take such a big swap space.
>
>also for the entire distribution + OEM edition it is asking for minimum 2
>GB of disk space for root.. Is this much required

You used the Solaris Installation CD, didn't you? Boot from "Software 1", and
you won't have these problems.

Mit freundlichen Gren

Dipl.-Ing. Frank-Christian Krgel
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