[OpenIndiana-discuss] how to install open indiana on a single partition

[Till Wegmueller]

Hey Mario

If you are still using UFS on FreeBSD that is like ext2 on Linux, so if 
you want to install into another partition, you have to have a partition 
table that is readable by the illumos kernel. Then you can create a ZFS 
pool on that partition and install into that.

If you are not used to ZFS yet with illumos you will have to. FreeBSD 
would like you to use it aswell. (IIRC it's the default for FreeBSD) So 
it's a good time to read up on it.

-Till

On 13.10.21 13:16, Mario Marietto wrote:
> I never used ZFS. Is it doable even using another FS that I don't know
> which type it is ?. For example on FreeBSD the basic FS is ufs. So usually
> when I install it I choose ufs instead of ZFS. Maybe I will study ZFS
> later,since now I don't want to make things more complicated than they
> already are.
> 
> Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 18:10 Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> ha
> scritto:
> 
>> On October 13, 2021 3:55:06 PM UTC, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hello to everyone.
>>>
>>> I would like to know if any of you has tried to install open indiana in
>>> a
>>> specific partition and not on the whole hard disk. Do you have some
>>> suggestions ? some tutorial that I can learn how to do that ? thanks.
>>
>> It would probably have to be a primary partition (if on MBR) of type
>> Solaris2, but should be doable. IIRC from live/install media you can
>> manually create an rpool, and then feed it to installer as a done thing. It
>> was a while since I saw the installer :)
>>
>> Actually the installer would probably ask about partitioning; the trick
>> above could be more a step to colocate zfs-aware OSes in datasets of same
>> rpool.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> --
>> Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android
>>
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