Re: How to Change Size of SWAP Partition at Installation (Solaris 9, Ultra 10)


Erik Jensen wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:02:13 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:55:12 -0700, Erik Jensen wrote:

Dave Uhring wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:03:29 -0700, Erik Jensen wrote:

I'm running an 440 MHz Ultra 10 with 256 MB of RAM (yeah, it's not
enough). I'm using the latest version of Solaris 9. I'd like to create a
swap partition of at least 512 MB (or more) when I INSTALL the OS. But
the box for the size of the swap partition is grayed out. The
installation program creates a partition of 531 MB. With an 18 GB SCSI
disk I've got room.

I'm not sure of the mathematics in your part of the world but here the
proposed 531 MB > your desired 512 MB.

That was a typo on my part.

Then what was it supposed to be?

If creation of a larger swap partition is not possible during
installation can it be done later, after the system is running?

If you actually bother to read the screens during the installation you
will find a suggestion something like "F4-Customize Partitions".

Are you saying I DON'T read the screens?

Apparently not. Whether in GUI or text mode

Not in the GUI...

the installer clearly gives
one the option of customizing the partition sizes even

Non-swap partitions only.


if one chooses to
have the installer automatically allocate the partitions.

You did not even catch your own typo.


You are a real piece of work... I've seen the comments of others about
you. They are apparently all true. Don't bother answering.

My notes from documentation I had to write up as a newbie last year
when loading 9 Suns with Solaris 9, used when booting CD-1 and not the
installation disk, with two disks t0 and t1:

After selecting the disks to use:

When prompted to preserve (assuming the machine has an OS previously
installed), select No by pressing F2.

Select the Manual Layout by pressing F4 when prompted.

When prompted to lay out the File System and Disk Layout press F4 to
customise the layout.

Change the slices using the options to the following:
Disk t0
Slice 0 / xxxx
Slice 1 swap yyyy
Disk t1
Slice 7 /h <full disk size>

etc etc for other slices

Doing it this way there's no "swap" entry to be greyed out...

HTH

.

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