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

[Mario Marietto]

For me its ok to use ZFS at the end,but I'm forced to install it on a
single partition. But I should partition and format the disk to give the
50% to OI before starting the installer ?

Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 20:55 Toomas Soome via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> ha scritto:

>
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mario.
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-- 
Mario.