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

[Till Wegmueller]

Hey Mario

Unfortunately I have not done this before.
I could think up on how to do in on a Vagrant box but I would need to 
prepare things.

-Till

On 13.10.21 13:37, Mario Marietto wrote:
> Ehy Till. Can u give some more support helping me to understand more or
> less which are the steps necessary to install Open Indiana on a single
> partition ? Maybe a video tutorial I will appreciate.
> 
> Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 18:26 Till Wegmueller <
> toasterson at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
>> 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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