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

[Judah Richardson]

I would suggest finding a machine you can dedicate to running OI on bare
metal. You can certainly persist in your partition installation effort but
given that you've never used ZFS before IMO you'd just be setting yourself
up for a wide range of unforeseen, unique to you, and difficult to
support/solve problems.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:49 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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