Disk Partition & Mounting in Solaris 11 During Interactive Installation

Hi,
I am Installing Solaris 11 on Sun Fire T2000 which is having 4 disks. I am able to see all the 4 disks but unable to Customizse the Disks&Partition accorindg to my requirement.
Can any one guide me on, how to customize the disk partition during installation?
Thanks

Hi
I need this way while installing Oracle 11. In solaris 10 it is easy to disk partitioning and mounting Point. But in Solaris 11 Sparc, It is not allowing me to do.
Partition     Disk      Size in GB
/     /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     16
swap     /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1     16
/opt     /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3     16
/export/home     /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     8
/u01/app     /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5     Remaining disk1
/u02/app     /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0     All of disk
/u03/app     /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0     All of disk
/u04/app     /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0     All of disk

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thanks buddy.... I think this procedure will work fine.....

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Oracle® Database Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24321/oraclerestart.htm#CHDBJGEB)
*3.6.3 Step 2:* Creating DAS or SAN Disk Partitions for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
In order to use a DAS or SAN disk in Oracle ASM, the disk must have a partition table. Oracle recommends creating exactly one partition for each disk.
My question: why does Oracle recommend creating exactly one partition for each disk? For a disk to be used on Suse Linux, I normally need to at the least 3 partitions, i.e., boot, swap, and root.
Scott

Please read the entire manual - before starting setup and configuration.
From the very same manual:
Do not specify multiple partitions on a single physical disk as a disk group device.
Oracle ASM expects each disk group device to be on a separate physical disk.So why use partitioning? If you need to subdivide a LUN into smaller LUNs and use these instead of the larger LUN. Reasons could range from LUNs bigger than 2TB in size (ASM only support up to 2TB size LUNs), to wanting partition 1's of x size for ASM diskgroup 1 and partition 2's of y size for ASM diskgroup 2.
If you do partition, take the extra precaution of marking the partition as a non-file system (partition type <i>da</i>) to safeguard against someone (like a sysadmin looking for space) from mounting it as a file system.
Generally though - I would not partition LUNs for ASM use.

Disks don't show --- Solaris 10, Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 Install

I am installing 11gR2 grid infrastructure on a standalone server. It is SPARC Solaris 10. Followed the documentation for preparing disk partitions for ASM. But after launching runInstaller, at step of "Create ASM disk group", no disk shows up. Therefore disk group cannot be created. And the installation cannot continue. Tried ORCL:* for Change Discovery Path. It did not work.
Any help is appreciated.

Hi.
do you on a step at the installation of the ASM or is the ASM Instance installed and ready to use ?
Check the asm_diskstring parameter in the pfile if the ASM can discover the drives correctly .
Are you create a partition our ASM drives ?.
*T

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