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

[Mario Marietto]

So,what's happening here ? If is a good practice to install ZFS on the
entire disk and is a good practice to use ZFS and I can install OI only on
the 50% of the disk,what should I do ?

Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 19:35 Judah Richardson <
judahrichardson at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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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-- 
Mario.