[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2021.04_rc1 GUI installation on a 5 TB disk :-)

[Reginald Beardsley]

This is my standard install style using rpool on s0 and export on s1.  However, I feel quite certain that one could install with a single pool if desired.  What will not work IIRC is to have more than one pool on the target disk at install time.

The process was as follows:

Boot GUI  Live Image

Open terminal and "sudo /bin/su"

"format -e"
   select disk

"fdisk"
   create single 100% Solaris 2 partition
   write label and exit

"label"
   select EFI label.  This is critical, until the disk has an EFI lable, partition is limited to 2 TB.

"parition"
   create slice s0 and s1

"label"
"quit"
"verify"
"label"   
   just to be sure
"quit"

"zpool create rpool"

Use text-install to install to existing pool using F5

Here's the console log on first boot when I created the pool on s1:

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root at Hipster:~# zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          c4d0s0    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
root at Hipster:~# zpool create export c4d0s1
root at Hipster:~# zpool status
  pool: export
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        export      ONLINE       0     0     0
          c4d0s1    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          c4d0s0    ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

root at Hipster:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4d0
* /dev/rdsk/c4d0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
*         512 bytes/sector
*  9767374848 sectors
*  9767374781 accessible sectors
*
* Flags:
*   1: unmountable
*  10: read-only
*
*                            First       Sector      Last
* Partition  Tag  Flags      Sector       Count      Sector  Mount Directory
       0      2    00           34   209715200   209715233
       1      4    00    209715234  9557643197  9767358430
       8     11    00   9767358431       16384  9767374814
root at Hipster:~# zfs list
NAME                         USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
export                       102K  4.30T    24K  /export
rpool                       6.15G  90.2G    34K  /rpool
rpool/ROOT                  6.15G  90.2G    24K  legacy
rpool/ROOT/2021-04-rc1      6.15G  90.2G  5.37G  /
rpool/ROOT/2021-04-rc1/var   787M  90.2G   784M  /var


Have Fun!
Reg