minimal solaris installation

[chenn]

Hi folks,
I'm co-responsible for improving the services on something like 20 Solaris servers, running Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7.
As these servers where installed by a non-experienced user back-in-the-days, there is too much overhead (meaning not-required packages) on it.
What I need to know is a guideline for a minimal system but somehow it seems I'm too stupid finding something about this on docs.sun.com...
So if someone knows some good documents, it'd be nice to post the links!

thanks
chenn

 

[071]

Here's a couple of good sites for u.

http://www.informit.com

http://www.ugu.com

http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/index.html

http://www.sunhelp.org/

http://www.sunguru.com

 

[sunman]

The only overhead regarding doing a full install is disk allocation. There is no performance issues if these packages are not being used - only daemons get started in the rc2.d directory on bootup and these are sleeping.

If you do a minimal (core Solaris) install, you may latter find that you do not have all the libraries you need when you go to develop or compile applications.

 

[chenn]

The problem is almsot solved thanks to everyone helping by sending tips or links.
On most machines there were up to 261 packages not used in any way! we don't run x-window as they are rack-mount and therefore only accessible via management routers or console.

thanks a lot regards
chenn