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

[Judah Richardson]

ZFS has been the default on FreeBSD installations for a while now ;)

I wouldn't consider using ZFS on anything less than an entire disk good
practice, but like driving a car with motorcycle wheels instead of the
stock wheels it's something that can be done if truly desired.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:26 AM Till Wegmueller <toasterson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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