On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Adam Holland <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Peter, > > I just wanted to let you know that I did try installing tribblix under > vbox for the first time since I got into this mailing list. > > I got stumbled-up in the fdisk section. The usage of 'format' is a rather > confusing compared to the command line GNU fdisk on Linux. > > I know this isn't your doing, as I have had similar confusion and > frustration trying to partition an SGI volume using IRIX 6.5 on my friends > old O2 model. > > If there is a more extended tutorial on this illumos or SunOS format tool, > it would help me to get past that into actually trying Tribblix. > I think this is actually an area where we could definitely improve. (Not that the Linux tools are necessarily better, just different, and you probably get more hits on Google to help you out, which I needed the other day when having a disagreement with sfdisk and partprobe.) I've got a script that will (hopefully) do all the fdisk+format steps, it's format-a-disk.sh, and if you install as ./live_install.sh -B c0t0d0 kitchen-sink it will automatically call that script to partition the drive correctly. That's the plan, anyway. It's pretty much at the "works for me" stage (hence undocumented) but it might be the long-term solution. It's a shame we don't have properly scriptable drive formatting tools - what my script does is what most of us do, which is use prtvtoc and fmthard, making up the right partition table with a bit of scripting. Thanks for the comments! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
