[guocangz]

I installed Solaris 10 my desk top about a half dozen of times on different sizes of partitions. After each installation, the file system does not have much space left no matter how big the partition is. The sizes ranges from 13 gb to 100gb. When checking how big each folder is, I found the devices folder can be as big as 39999999 gb. and the space left free is only about 2 to 5 gb.

Can anyone help me out as I am new for Unix and Linux?

Thanks.

[Freejack]

Can you provide the output of "df -k"? Also, what sort of options you used to do the installation?

Carl

[guocangz]

# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c2d0s0 8227301 6829503 1315525 84% /
/devices 0 0 0 0% /devices
ctfs 0 0 0 0% /system/contract
proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 2270620 892 2269728 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0 0 0 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
8227301 6829503 1315525 84% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 2269852 124 2269728 1% /tmp
swap 2269756 28 2269728 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c2d0s7 14896024 14793 14732271 1% /export/home
/vol/dev/dsk/c3t0d0/vs2008_sunapp
4358816 4358816 0 100% /cdrom/vs2008_sunapp
#

I selected the all option (about 3 gb) and the allocation of the partition sizes is the default. In some cases I tried to double the swap size.

Thanks for your quick response.

Mike.

[Freejack]

Ok sounds about right for the size anyway. What are the specs for the system you're installing it to? I'm assuming Solaris x86 unless you have a Sparc box somewhere

Have you checked your system against the hardware compatibility list, just to eliminate that from the problem?

Here's the list: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/

Still, it seems to be seeing your setup. Are you using a 3 gig drive?

I haven't had a problem with any Solaris installs be they on X86, AMD, or Sparc so I'm trying to think of where this might be cropping up.

Carl

[guocangz]

The hard drive on the pc is from Samsung, but it is not on the compatible list.

The drive is 120 gig and the the size of the partition Solaris is on is 35 gig.

Is there any chance to make it work on the drives that not on the list?

Thanks.

Mike.

[saikee]

Been a while I touch a Solaris but I am pretty sure the system is distributed into a number of sub-slices of predetermined sizes. Any extra hard disk space is given to a home folder as working space. Therefore it is pointless to complain the space used up within the predermined sub-slices which are the equivalent of the logical partitions in a hard disk. Under the normal usage a user does not have a need to go anywhere near the system sub-slices reserved for the system.

I never care about what hard disk make Solaris would take. As far as I am aware it can be installed in any normal Pata hard disk. Some older Solaris may have an issue with Sata disks. I suppose if one run a SCSI type hard disk then a driver Solaris can understand would be needed.

[guocangz]

I would be happy if I could be care free.

I got an error saying 'there is not enough space for the installation' when I tried to install Sun Studio.
Thanks.

[saikee]

I do believe during an installation you are allowed to vary the size of each sub-slice and alter the default value.