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Tomorrow morning I'm ordering a blade-100.

They say that it will come with solaris 8 pre-installed.

Now, I remember from a few years ago when I was upgrading
from solaris 5.something to 6 (I think), there was
some place during the os-install where it offered
to set up the disk partitions automatically.

Some guy from sun (sunservice) told me that the
default scheme was lousy, that it gave way too little
to /usr, etc, etc, and that I should figure it out
myself.

Is that *still* true?  Or has sun finally come up
with better defaults?

Any suggestions on what to do, how big to make
the various partitions?

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Another question:  way back when (sun 3/160 days), it
was, I believe, standard to have lots of partitions,
eg 5 or 8 or so.

More recently, a sun guy told me that what he did
was to have only ONE partition -- everything stuffed
into one.

What is the current thinking on this?  Pros and cons?

And any suggestions will be most welcome.

Thanks,

David

PS: a related question: the blade-100 comes with a 20gig
disk; for $300 or so you can get a second one (to go
inside the machine, alongside the first one).

Now, I have only about 10 or so gigs total right now;
it's going to take quite a while for even I to fill
the 20gig disk.

QUESTION: Given the above, what benefits from spending
the $300 and getting the second 20gig?

(Reason I ask is that I've read (here) that having
two of them makes it real easy to upgrade to
a new version of the os, eg solaris.)

If it does make it easier, *how much easier* does
it make it?

What things can go wrong in the upgrade done the "normal"
way, vs with the dual disks?

Thanks!

David

Quote:> Tomorrow morning I'm ordering a blade-100.

> They say that it will come with solaris 8 pre-installed.

> ...snippage...

> Some guy from sun (sunservice) told me that the
> default scheme was lousy, that it gave way too little
> to /usr, etc, etc, and that I should figure it out
> myself.

> Is that *still* true?  Or has sun finally come up
> with better defaults?

There wasn't much room in /opt with the default.  I had to repartition in
order to install Workshop 6.  I took that opportunity to install the
latest OS at that time...
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ISTR the layout of the disks was pretty poor with a shed-load
of space going into /space. I blew the partitions away, go
with what you're happy with.

Quote:> PS: a related question: the blade-100 comes with a 20gig
> disk; for $300 or so you can get a second one (to go
> inside the machine, alongside the first one).

> Now, I have only about 10 or so gigs total right now;
> it's going to take quite a while for even I to fill
> the 20gig disk.

> QUESTION: Given the above, what benefits from spending
> the $300 and getting the second 20gig?

For less than that you could get a huge disk instead. I went
for a 75Gb IBM drive. Small spot of bother trying to get the
disk seen as 75Gb but now it's working great and I store mp3s
on it happily.
I suppose on what suppport you're getting though.

r

Quote:

>There wasn't much room in /opt with the default.  I had to repartition in
>order to install Workshop 6.  I took that opportunity to install the
>latest OS at that time...

Second time I've seen that "workshop 6" yesterday thru now.

Please, just what *is* it?

(yes, I could use google, but I imagine that I'll
get a much better answer from a real person.)

Thanks

David

To fix it, I'd imagine you were required to
re-install Solaris?

Quote:>> PS: a related question: the blade-100 comes with a 20gig
>> disk; for $300 or so you can get a second one (to go
>> inside the machine, alongside the first one).

>> Now, I have only about 10 or so gigs total right now;
>> it's going to take quite a while for even I to fill
>> the 20gig disk.

>> QUESTION: Given the above, what benefits from spending
>> the $300 and getting the second 20gig?

>For less than that you could get a huge disk instead. I went
>for a 75Gb IBM drive. Small spot of bother trying to get the
>disk seen as 75Gb but now it's working great and I store mp3s
>on it happily.
>I suppose on what suppport you're getting though.

(1) *Where* did you get the disk?

(2)  Internal or external?  (external, I assume, because of
the heat load from such a large disk.)

(2.5) Just what did you ask them for, so that you
got the external box, power supply, cables, etc?

(3) And how much, roughly, did it cost?

ANOTHER QUESTION: if I install that *NON*-sun disk,
will sun *flat refuse* to provide service?  (Or just
not to the disk, but just fine for all the sun-stuff?)

What if any stories have you heard on this?

(also, about buying non-sun memory)

Thanks

David

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|>There wasn't much room in /opt with the default.  I had to repartition in
|>order to install Workshop 6.  I took that opportunity to install the
|>latest OS at that time...
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|Second time I've seen that "workshop 6" yesterday thru now.
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|Please, just what *is* it?

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