3.1) How much disk space do I need to install Solaris 2?

A full install of 2.2 is supposed to be 164 MB, but that doesn't include swap. Here is a net exchange between Casper Dik and Gil Tene:

In article <1993Apr2.083549.19177@fwi.uva.nl>, Casper writes:
|> >How much disc space does SOLARIS take up ? That is should we buy a
|> >424MB disc or get a 1Gb disc to put it on :-)
|>
|> Solaris 2.x takes about as much diskspace as SunOS 4.x:
|>
|> Partition/Slice Solaris SunOS
|> /            10MB     8MB
|> /usr         78MB    90MB
|> /var         10MB    10MB
|> /usr/openwin 83MB    83MB

Gil replies: On my system, with a full Solaris installation (EVERYTHING selected) + gnu's binary stuff for solaris (off of the Catalyst CD) installed in /opt I see a similar situation to the above plus :

16852   /opt/SUNWabe
19      /opt/SUNWcg12
7968    /opt/SUNWdiag
721     /opt/SUNWgt
7740    /opt/SUNWits
14609   /opt/cygnus-sol2-1.0

(output from "du -k -s /opt/*")

- SUNWabe is the end user answerbook stuff. (vi, mail, Deskset tools etc, etc)

- SUNWcg12 is (obviously) cg12 support.

- SUNWdiag is obvious too.

- SUNWgt is support for gt boards.

- SUNWits is the xgl3.0 library (it has libPEX5.so.1 in there too).

- cygnus-sol2-1.0 is the gcc2.0+tools stuff. I have gcc2.3.3 on another partition and that takes about the same space as 2.0 does.

Another important note : The full Solaris 2.1 answerbook takes up 164MB on disk. I highly recommend installing it and not using it off the CDROM drive. It's much more usable (faster) this way. And it always stays around -- even when you have something else in the CDROm drive.

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