[OpenIndiana-discuss] mirroring rpool oi html pages

[Jonathan Adams]

I have to say that this page is the one I use mostly on the OI wiki, and I
use it pretty much verbatim, but I use it for Solaris 10 x86, and some
early OI systems only ... it's more concisely written than most similar
articles on the subject on the web.

I don't know if the section that you are talking about is as relevant as it
used to be to people on hipster, and that it would be better to have one
that is relevant to a new/current install base, but I'd like it if the
instructions are still left somewhere on the page, even if it's under
legacy/grub install ...

If it doesn't I'll just have to remember to take a rip of the page :)

Jon

On 6 April 2017 at 04:22, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Reviewing the oi wiki pages before trying this out I wondered if the
> material here:
> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2.1+Post-installation
>
> Is still up to date?  There has been quite a lot of talk of using
> whole discs everywhere possible... no slices, yet it appears that is
> what is being said there.
>
> I admit I'm not very knowledgeable about this.  But I see one of the
> earlier points made under
>
>   2.1.1 How to mirror the root disk:
>
> "Now (on x86 only) we need to apply a default Solaris fdisk partition
> to a disk: # pfexec format (choose disk 1, then run fdisk (here,
> choose Y to select the 100% Solaris partition))"
>
> Is that still true?
>
> Further along under
> 2.1.1.1 GPT Partitioning (Hipster Style):
>
> In fact in the earlier section mentioned above too, they tell you to
> install grub as boot loader.
>
> So does this whole thing predate the move to the new bootloader.
>
> And if one is to use the new bootloader as is recomended do you still
> need a solaris partition as claimed in the first section?
>
> Oh, and one other thing there... in the first section at the 3rd
> command (prtvtoc) we are suddenly dealing with a prefix of s2 on the
> disk names... not s0 or p0 or d0 but s2 which indicates slice 2
> doesn't it?  So what's that all about?
>
> It would be very handy to know which parts of the advice to believe
> and which (if any are outdated)
>
> Maybe pointers to more recent advice if there is any.
>
>
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