[OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

[Michelle]

I just followed the text install on the 2021.04 GUi live image, and it
created a single Rpool for the whole disk.

I'm not sure where I'm going to go from here. Need to have a sit and
think.

Thank you very much for all your efforts on this. I really do
appreciate it.

Michelle.

On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 16:23 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-
discuss wrote:
>  I just installed the 2021.04.30 text ISO on my Z400 test system. The
> disk had a pool in a single slice which I imported and destroyed. Had
> I not done that it would have named the pool rpool1. I left the disk
> label alone. This was from testing manually creating a single slice
> and installing into that using the F5 option which doesn't create
> dump and swap on the expectation they already exist.
> 
> The installer still has the usual spurious messages about only using
> 2 TB. I selected an EFI label and did the install.
> 
> That created a 256 MB s0 slice beginning in sector 256 with the rest
> of the disk in s1.
> 
> "zfs list" shows the pool has 4.39 TB available which is correct for
> having used the entire disk.
> 
> If you're going to run a 2 disk mirror with the 6 TB drives I'd
> install to a single pool using the text installer. Assuming it works
> properly. When the 8 TB drive returns, copy the data and then create
> a matching label and add the drive to the pool to create a mirror.
> 
> Unfortunately we are a tad shy on current documentation.
> 
> Reg
> 
>      On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 10:15:53 AM CDT, Michelle <
> michelle at msknight.com> wrote:  
>  
>  Actually, I was wrong. It was the 2021.04 text install USB that I
> was
> using. I was using the text install because it's just a file server.
> I
> don't need X.
> 
> Well, the situation I find myself in is as follows...
> 
> A pair of 6tb reds, one of which has data on that I can't get off
> until
> one of my 8tb has come back from RMA....
> 
> So I thought I'd use the other 6tb to get this sorted, and by the
> time
> the other 6tb is ready to be put in, I would be able to install it
> and
> add it in.
> 
> Going via the GUI installer, I'm wondering whether I'll be able to do
> that.
> 
> This is why I was following your script, but when it came to step 4,
> the solaris partition was only 2tb max. However, I've just noted that
> I
> wasn't using the -e at the end of the format command, so after I've
> made dinner I'll read up on that switch in the hope that this is what
> will enable me to create the larger Solaris partition.
> 
> Michelle.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 14:04 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via
> openindiana-
> discuss wrote:
> >   Michelle,
> > 
> > What disks are you trying to use? If they are different sizes the
> > recipe gets a bit more complex, but it's quite possible to get any
> > arrangement for which you have a sufficient number of disks. Having
> > spent 50 hours over 5 days battling the 2021.04.05 install I've had
> > *lots* of practice installing both 2021.04.05 and 2020.10.
> > 
> > Incidentally the failure of 2021.04.05 to run the nVIDIA driver is
> > because it installed the wrong driver for that system.
> > 
> > Reg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 08:16:07 AM CDT, Michelle <
> > michelle at msknight.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > OK - I give in.
> > 
> > I've tried various combinations and I just can't get this into a
> > configuration where I can get things installed.
> > 
> > I need a step by step guide please, because I'm lost. I don't know
> > what
> > options to choose in the installer to not avoid it wanting to wipe
> > whatever combinations of partitions I've set.
> > 
> > Michelle.
> > 
> > 
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