[OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

[Peter Tribble]

Hi,

topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No
> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what
> filesystem you want to use for your root during installation?
>

Not on OpenIndiana, the whole of packaging etc essentially
requires ZFS root - so the same limitation will likely apply to
any distro using IPS.

You can install Tribblix to ufs; I'm not aware of any other
distro that offers it as an option. (You might have some joy
with OpenSXCE, although that uses the same Caiman
installer as OI so intercepting it might be tricky.)

Seriously, though, I would love to know *why* you don't want
to install to ZFS. I can think of several reasons myself (which is
why I added the option to Tribblix) but this is quite a specialist
area, so what's your use case?

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-Peter Tribble
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