Booting Solaris 11 Express from Compact Flash !

Hello,
I've managed to get SOL 11 Express to boot off of a Compact Flash drive. I would now like to minimize the write/erase cycles to extend the life of the compact flash drive. This document outlines the steps that can be taken to reduce writing to the flash drive.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19469-01/820-4893-13/compact_flash.html
The guide explain how to redirect log entries to an NFS share and then how to handle the swap partition.
There are 2 issues that I'm up against -
1. I don't have an external server to redirect my log entries. I would like to have my logs written to a hard disk attached to the server itself rather than an NFS share.
2. The entries to the swap partition in the guide seem to reference how to make the changes in linux. Would the same technique work even in SOL ?
Any help with the above 2 points and any others that I might have missed will be appreciated.
Thanks in adance

Ok - Unfortunately it does not work even on a reboot. The problem I think it happening is that the storage pool (that hosts the moved /var folder) does not seem to be available at boot time. So when I delete the original /var, the system complains that it's unable to write to the various logs. I'm trying to see if there's a way to make the storage pool available at boot time. But I don't know enough of Solaris to get there quickly.
If anyone else has some additional pointers, that will be great.....

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