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

[Mario Marietto]

Is there something that I should do to get the bootloader (better if it is
UEFI) to recognize the other partition ?

Il giorno gio 14 ott 2021 alle ore 01:07 Mario Marietto <
marietto2008 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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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