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

[Toomas Soome]

> On 13. Oct 2021, at 19:16, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com> 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.
> 

Installer does not let you use anything else than zfs; but the installer does let you select either whole disk or partition. Technically you can set up system on ufs, but all normal management tools (pkg update, beadm) are assuming zfs.

rgds,
toomas


> Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 18:10 Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru <mailto: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
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
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> Mario.
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