Solaris Express Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade
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Document Information

Preface

Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  What's New in Solaris Installation

3.  Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)

4.  System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)

System Requirements and Recommendations

Allocating Disk and Swap Space

Upgrade Planning

Planning Network Security

Locale Values

Platform Names and Groups

x86: Partitioning Recommendations

How to Find the Version of the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running

5.  Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)

Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to GRUB, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes

6.  x86: GRUB Based Booting for Solaris Installation

7.  Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)

8.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)

9.  Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)

Glossary

Index
Chapter 4

System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)

This chapter describes system requirements to install or upgrade to the Solaris OS. General guidelines for planning the disk space and default swap space allocation are also provided. This chapter contains the following sections:
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