[OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

[Gordon Ross]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
>> UFS root should still work, also NFS root (convenient for ZFS debug work:)
>>
>
> As concepts within illumos, yes.
>
> With the full OI distribution, doubtful.
>
> -- Rich

Last I looked, the install CD (or image for a USB stick) is a UFS image.
It's not hard to set that up for PXE boot over the net, with NFS root.
(We used to do that regularly for network installs in the lab.)

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