System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)

This chapter describes system requirements to install or upgrade to the Solaris OS. General guidelines for planning the disk space and default swap space allocation are also provided. This chapter contains the following sections:

• System Requirements and Recommendations

• Allocating Disk and Swap Space

• Upgrade Planning

• Locale Values

• Platform Names and Groups

• x86: Partitioning Recommendations

• How to Find the Version of the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running