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3.2 Planning Disk Space for RIS
Before beginning to set up a RIS area, you must calculate the amount of disk
storage required for the software subsets in the RIS areas on the server. If
space on the server’s system disk is an issue and your server’s distribution
media is a CD
−ROM, you might want to create symbolic links from the RIS
server area to the software on the CD−ROM. Section 4.2 briefly describes
the advantages and disadvantages of establishing symbolic links instead of
extracting the software subsets into the RIS server area.
See Chapter 1 for a description of the RIS area’s contents. A given server
can have multiple RIS areas, in which some of the subsets can be duplicated.
To organize your RIS server’s disk space, perform the following steps:
1. Determine how many RIS environments you want.
2. Choose the software subsets you want to install, organizing them by the
environments where they are to be installed.
3. Use the subset size information in the Release Notes to ensure that you
have adequate disk space.
3.3 Installing the Operating System on the RIS Server
The Installation Guide describes how to install the operating system on
the server, and lists all of the supported software subsets along with their
names and descriptions. This information helps you organize the process
before you perform the installation.
Because RIS areas are created in the /var/adm/ris directory, you may
want to specify a separate /var file system during the installation for
extra disk space. See the instructions in the Installation Guide to specify a
separate /var file system.
Install the Remote Installation Service and Additional
Networking Services subsets on the system to be used as a RIS server.
These subsets contain the tftp networking utility and the joind bootstrap
daemon. If you want to use the Internet Boot Protocol (BOOTP) server
daemon bootpd, install the Obsolete Commands and Utilities (Obsolete
Components) subset OSFOBSOLETE520.
After you install the operating system, enter the following command to see if
these subsets are installed:
# /usr/sbin/setld -i | grep -E "RIS|INET|OBSOLETE"
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