Path 3: Non-Standard Server Configuration - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

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Installing UNIX for the First Time
You have completed the configuration questions.
Continuing will destroy any existing files under /usr
and any client partitions if you are a server.
Do you want to begin configuration! (y In): y
Updating / etc /hosts
[ ... A few lines of configuration messages ... ]
If your distribution is on two 1/4-inch tape cartridges, letup will prompt you to change to the
second cartridge about two minutes into its back-end routine. Insert the second tape and type
'RETURN' to continue the routine; it takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. When
letup completes its back-end work, your shell prompt returns. You can then continue your
installation by booting the full UNIX system, as described below.
4.3.10.3. Path 3: Non-Standard Server Configuration
Note that if you follow this path, you need not put / pub on the first disk you configure, as you
must in Path 2.
4.3.10.3.1. Configuration Worksheet for Path 3
The purpose or this worksheet is to allow you to gather and sta.bilize your system configura.tion
berore you cast it in concrete with the letup program. Basically the worksheet helps you deter-
mine your real storage resources, the number of users you want to support, how you want to
allocate your rree disk space, and certain items or network configuration information necessary
for the letup dialogue. We have provided two copies of the worksheet so that you can draft and
redraft ir necessary; it will be to your advantage to write everything out. We have also pro-
vided a sample completed worksheet to use as a guide.
There are several things to keep in mind during this process. One important point is that once
the disk has been divided up in a certain way, it is extremely difficult to alter that structure. It
can be changed only by going through the entire first time installation procedure again. There-
fore, you might give some thought to what your future requirements are before you complete
the worksheet. For example, you may want to "reserve" a client or two for future diskless sta-
tions that will be added in the coming months. The storage that you allocate for those future
clients does not have to remain unused. You can make such partitions available as extra
mounted filesystems for the original set or clients.
Now simply fill in the blanks.
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