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

[Mario Marietto]

Unfortunately I don't have any more disk and I'm out of money :(

Il giorno gio 14 ott 2021 alle ore 00:54 Coalson, Timothy Scott
(S&T-Student) <tsc5yc at mst.edu> ha scritto:

> Would adding another internal disk (or maybe even external) and installing
> to that not be satisfactory?  That would make the step of getting a
> bootloader to recognize the other partition entirely optional, as you could
> just have the bios boot from the other disk.
>
> Tim
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> 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
> > >>
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