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

[Mario Marietto]

What is bare metal ? Is it the same as physical ? Because, yes,I want to
install OI directly on my hardware,without using any kind of hypervisor.

Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 19:57 Judah Richardson <
judahrichardson at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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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Mario.