> How much bigger was the Core System cluster? i can't remember, i did the install a couple months ago, it was more than i wanted to give up
> Under 5GB, which is less than US$1 worth of storage at today's prices. Okay, i oversimplified things a bit. The disk space is not the only problem but an important one. I need 2 OS slices since i don't like installing new operating systems over top of one i know is working. So that extra 4GB is now 8. I don't have a fancy disk array (yet) that i can plug drives into all day long. I have a tower with 5 bays and one is take by a cdrom. Once its full, there's 8GB of stuff i can't put on my file server because the space is taken by X11 and other stuff i don't need. The other issue is processes in my system that i don't need. I get the feeling that if i install the entire distribution, i'm going to get a mother load of processes that will start when the machine boots. They take-up main memory, slow my system down, and lengthen the boot time. That means i have to uninstall all kinds of stuff after the install is finished. kcfd sc utmpd sched these are some processes running after a reduced network install. For all theses processes, i have to spend hours googling to figure-out what should stay and what should go. Then i have to figure-out how to remove the ones i don't want. Image what that list would to look like if i did the entire distribution install. So, i have two options; I can install everything and remove the stuff i don't want, or I can install the minimum Solaris needs to boot, and add the stuff i need. All i want is NFS, Samba, svn, ssd, and a few other things for odd ball stuff like gcc, and ruby. The second option is much nicer and leaves a less bloated system which is easier to maintain to fix. I shouldn't need to install everything under the Sun just to get a simple file server working. Try installing gentoo some day. It won't even install a cron deamon unless you tell it to. You get to pick exactly what software goes on your system during the install. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
