Shawn Walker wrote: > On 14/09/2007, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: >> Jan, >> >> With respect to the task list: >> >>> [1] October release (only fresh install on x86 supported) >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> o removed dependency on pfinstall engine >>> >>> o Disk module >>> * support for creating VTOC label (slice configuration) within existing >>> Solaris2 partition >>> according to information received from orchestrator (user will be asked >>> to >>> create fdisk Solaris2 partition before Installer is launched). It is >>> supposed >>> that at least two slices will be created (one for ZFS root pool, one >>> for swap). >> I think we could pretty easily include support for using the entire >> disk, as "fdisk -B" essentially does what we'd need to allow that >> option. It's a small thing, but means one less thing that has to be >> disabled/modified in the GUI and one less step for users who are willing >> to give us the whole disk. > > While you're on that topic, if the target disk only has one partition > (a Solaris partition), I would like to see the installer default to > "use whole disk" as it seems more logical to me. Is there any reason > to not do that? Especially if that single partition takes up all > available space? >
If it already has a single Solaris partition which takes the entire disk, then it doesn't matter which way we default. If it has only a single partition but it's not the entire disk, perhaps we should infer that the user is keeping space for some other purpose and defaulting to taking the entire disk is not desirable. Dave
