[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

[Reginald Beardsley]

 Thanks, John,

The text installer on the GUI ISO is not the same as what's on the text installer ISO? That's not good. 

If they are different that should be clearly stated in the text installer opening screen on the GUI ISO.

I'll burn a text ISO and give that a whirl to see how it goes.

I can always work around the issue by using an MBR and migrating the pool to a new vdev. I did that to change from 1 TB to 2 TB disks on my Solaris 10 u8 instance when disks got cheaper. It's tedious and should not be necessary. But if no one wants to assist me in fixing the problem I'll just do that if the text ISO has issues. Triple boots are not for sissies. I've usually used swappable drive trays just to avoid the installer hassles. But there are cases where it's the only option. The Z400 lets you choose optical, USB or hard drive, but not which hard drive.

Reg
     On Monday, March 1, 2021, 01:01:24 PM CST, John D Groenveld <groenveld at acm.org> wrote:  
 
 In message <1586327972.1670525.1614620699316 at mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsle
y via openindiana-discuss writes:
>FWIW  I created a series of slices using "format -e" with an EFI label.  No is
>sues encountered, nor did I encounter any issues with creating pools on them a
>s can be seen from the console output.
>
>However, when I run the text installer on the Desktop LiveImage I am not able 
>to select anything except the entire disk.  I read the F6_help and tested all 
>the options allowed.  With an EFI label I *must* use the entire disk.

With the text installer from the text ISO, you can choose option 3
to escape to a shell, format and create and export your rpool,
then exit back to the installation menu and select option 1 to
install OI.
Then choose F5 to install to your existing rpool.

John
groenveld at acm.org

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