[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:28:09PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-01-31 18:25, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> 
> >I'm going to try tricking it by forming a mirror w/ a 128 GB slice,
> >detaching the oversize slice, relabeling and then reforming
> >the mirror.  May not work, but it's worth a try.
> 
> I'm not sure I get your idea right... if you plan on creating a 2Tb
> rpool, then adding 128Gb as a mirror, and then detach 2Tb, I guess
> creation of the mirror will fail and the plan won't work. What am I
> missing? ;)

If you create an fdisk partition on that disk, the GUI installer
should notice it and offer to install illumos on that fdisk partition,
leaving the rest of the disk untouched.

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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-