Matt, Hold off on this change. I have more revisions coming in. I'll resend when ready. Barbara
Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > Matt, > Sorry, but I made a small but important change in the file. > Can you put in this revised version? > Thank you!! > Barbara > > > Matt Keenan wrote: > >> Done.. :) >> >> >> Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: >> >> >>> Matt, >>> >>> Please replace the existing help file for install_disk_panel.txt >>> with the >>> new attached file of the same name. >>> >>> This new Help file for Slim Installer includes the new minimum >>> size requirement and includes ZFS default file system setup >>> information. >>> >>> This is a beta draft of this help file. We'll probably have further >>> edits >>> to this file as we go forward, but at least this new file covers ZFS. >>> >>> Please includes this in the next build of Slim. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> Barbara >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Disk > > >This panel displays the internal disks, external disks, and solid-state drives >that are available on the system. This panel also displays the size of each >disk in gigabytes. This panel enables you to choose a disk for the >installation. > >Note: In order to be recognized by the installer, the disks and solid-state >drives must be turned on at the time the computer boots. > > >Guidelines > > * Recommended minimum size for the OpenSolaris OS installation is > displayed. Disks that are too small for a successful installation are labeled > as such. > >Recommended size is at least 10 GB. > > * During the installation, the OpenSolaris fdisk partition is resliced > with a default filesystem layout. For details, see the default layout summary > at the end of this Help page. > >Procedure > >1. Select a disk. > > * For details about a disk, move the cursor over the disk icon. A popup > window provides disk specifications. > >2. After a disk has been selected, choose one of the following two options: > > * Install the OpenSolaris OS on the whole disk. > > WARNING: This option erases the existing disk. The entire disk is > overwritten with the new OpenSolaris OS. > > * Install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition on the selected disk. For > this option, one existing Solaris partition must be available as the target > for the installation. > > Note the following partitioning guidelines: > > *Only one Solaris or OpenSolaris partition is allowed. You can change > an existing Solaris partition to another partition type. > > * Only x86 based systems can be partitioned. > > * Manual control of OpenSolaris partitioning and of file system layout > is not supported. > >3. If you choose to install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition, you can resize >existing partitions, delete partitions, and create new partitions in this >panel. > > Note the following guidelines: > > * This panel displays the existing disk partitioning. > > WARNING: If the existing partition table cannot be read, a warning is > displayed, and the panel displays proposed partitioning. In this case, all > data on the disk is destroyed. > > * The partitions are displayed in physically sequential order as they > are laid out on the disk. > > WARNING: Resizing a partition destroys the data on that partition and > all physically subsequent partitions. Existing data is not moved to conform > to a new partition layout. However, resizing the last partition or adding a > new partition does not affect the data that already exists in other > partitions. > > * The Unallocated Available Space field tracks any disk space that has > not been allocated to a specific partition. You can Type "=" into any > partition size, in order to alter its size so that remaining unallocated > space is zero. > > >Default Filesystem Layout > >The ???Project Indiana??? Milestone 1 release installation assigns the entire >OpenSolaris fdisk partition to a ZFS pool. This pool is setup as a mirrored >pool. The ZFS pool includes datasets for a /usr file system, the /opt file >system, the /export file system, and others. Swap is located be on zvol. A >second disk is required for redundancy. The following example illustrates the >resulting file system setup. > ><indiana-build> zpool status > pool: mypool > state: ONLINE > scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Wed Sep 26 23:41:40 2007 > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > mypool ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 > c3t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > >errors: No known data errors > >Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on >mypool/BE1 134G 16G 83G 17% / >/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices >/dev 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev >ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract >proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc >mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab >swap 496M 888K 495M 1% /etc/svc/volatile >objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object >sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab >mypool/BE1/usr 134G 3.4G 83G 4% /usr >/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1 > > 87G 3.4G 83G 4% /lib/libc.so.1 >fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd > >mypool/BE1/var 134G 1.3G 83G 2% /var >swap 522M 27M 495M 6% /tmp >swap 495M 40K 495M 1% /var/run >mypool/BE1/opt 134G 1.4G 83G 2% /opt >mypool/BE1/export 134G 1.5G 83G 2% /export > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >caiman-discuss mailing list >caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > >
