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No, he's installing a precompiled binary of gcc via pkgadd, as is mentioned above in this thread, and as was also mentioned in your thread, you can get this binary of gcc from www.sunfreeware.com

Hi,

Since you're a newbie, you shouldn't start by compiling programs like samba... you have to get all the dev tools and you'll face a lot of other problems while compiling. Why don't you gwt pkg-get instead ? You can get all the packages you want and it'll automatically follow all dependencies... give it a try !

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html

Definately check your filesystem space if you let Solaris automatically choose the partition sizes. The program is terribly outdated - it is as if they havent updated it since the days of 270mb drives. I accidentally forgot to customize on a server with a 18 gb drive once and I got something ridiculous like 50 mb for /, 15 mb for /var, and the rest all piled into /export/home.

As a hint, for my 18 gb rootdisks here's what I used generally (on a server with 4gb ram, swap can be smaller if you have less ram)

/ 2048

swap 4096

/var 2048

/u01 5120 This is an app area used by the dba's to install oracle and its supporting apps, you would not need this but instead might have your own apps partition with whatever name you want.

/export/home ~3950 (the remaining space) this was also awfully big for user home directories, but I had extra space. You could easily shrink that to make more room on your apps partition.

If you don't need as much in /export/home or your apps partition, you could give the extra space to / or /var. Just remember, you don't want stuff that changes or any data on /. The root partition should be just for the operating system and application binaries, any log file type stuff should go in /var and user data in /export/home or else in partitions designated for data. You never want users or logs to be able to fill up / and crash your box. Even if you are the only user, it is good practice to keep / pretty clean so when you do back ups of your data you don't need to worry about what is mixed where. You know if you backup your data partition and /export/home you can always just reinstall the os and your apps then restore the data.

Wow, that was probably way more than you wanted to know about partitioning in Solaris. Sorry if I bored you, but hopefully some of it proves interesting and/or useful.

Ha, 16GB is in /home/export while /var is 56MB.... it's funny..... I'm going to re-install and re-partition, I'll check in again tomorrow.

You guys been a great help, I finished re-installing solaris and re-partitioned the drives. The GCC installed properly and after setting the path, samba installation went straight through.

On another note, can anybody tell me how to mount an external usb mass storage drive. It's a western digital. During the installation solaris detected it and it's under c2t0d0, I just don't know how to mount it. Do I have to reformat it to UFS? Or can it still be a ms_dos format...... So far out of 80 GB it has 30 GB of Windows programs on it.

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