Thread: Installing ZCS 4.5.x on either openSUSE 10.2 or 10.3 a complete guide
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Old 04-25-2007, 09:38 AM
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Default /opt ? why its own partition? how big of a partition?
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Originally Posted by AimanA View Post
Mine worked great (Zimbra OSS on openSuSE 10.2).

You need to make sure you do a couple of things to 'prep' the installation so it will run zimbra. First, be sure you have the latest release of ZCS, and be sure to update your system BEFORE installing ZCS.

I installed "Minimal Text Mode Only" with no extra packages except for fetchmail, cURL, libidn, GMP, compat-libstdc++. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT install a full graphical system. Runlevel 5 smokes resources, and ZCS can use all it can take. Be sure to split /opt off into its own partition (or seperate RAID array). Then follow the guide on installing ZCS on opensuse.

I'm kind of new to linux install/admin.
what does having /opt in its own partition do?
how big should I make that partition?
also, is this a good thing to do for any linux/zimbra install (such as SUSE ES9)?

thanks.
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