Thanks, that's great to hear. I hate to lose 2 drive bays to disks for the BE. I've noticed another issue with 4GB BE's. I originally installed 2008.05. That worked great. I then ran "pkg image-update" to get to build 91. That was also fine. I then tried to update again to build 93. That failed, because the change set was 1.5GB, and I had nowhere near enough room to handle both clones. I was able to do most of the upgrade,but I ran out of disk space about 1/2 through the update phase.
I don't know if there's a standard solution for this (like use some scratch space for temporary storage), but if there is, I wasn't able to find it. Anyway, to make low space BE's viable, that issue will need to be addressed somehow. Jason On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Lori Alt <Lori.Alt at sun.com> wrote: > > The fix to support installing on 4 GB CF (and other > platforms in which the swap/dump sizing was less > than optimal) is going into build 96. > > Lori > > > Kent Watsen wrote: > > > > Hi Lori, > > > > Great to here its already reported and being looked at. > > > > BTW, I couldn't find the bug when searching by either bug # or title > > in http://bugs.opensolaris.org and http://defect.opensolaris.org...is > > there another tracking system I should search? - I'm hoping to find > > out when the fix is scheduled for... > > > > Thanks, > > Kent > > > > > > > > > > Lori Alt wrote: > >> > >> > >> This is bug 6724282 - cannot install zfs boot on cf due to limitation > >> in installer in snv_91. > >> > >> A fix is in progress. In the meantime, you can install with Jumpstart > >> and set the sizes for swap and dump to be as small as you want. > >> > >> Lori > >> > >> > >> - Kent Watsen wrote: > >> > >>> All, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to build a virtualization/xVM server with Solaris as the > >>> host-system (i.e. Dom0). I have a machine with 1 4GB compact-flash > >>> card for the OS and 24 disk-drives for the guest-domains (using > >>> ZFS). While this machine has lots of cores and memory installed, my > >>> hope is to use just 2-cores and 4GB of memory for the Dom0. > >>> > >>> Using UFS, my Dom0 space requirements were around 2GB, but when I > >>> select ZFS in the installer (b93), it calculates an enormous space > >>> requirement - around 10GB! I think this is because I currently have > >>> 16GB mem installed (though I plan to add more later) and so its > >>> reserving 1/2 physical mem for dump/swap; that is 1/2*16 + 2 = 10, > >>> but it really should be 1/2*4+2 = 4, which would barely fit my CF... > >>> > >>> Do I have to physically uninstall my memory before trying to install > >>> on the CF so the space requirements will fit? > >>> > >>> Also, given that the space-requirements are so close, I'm inclined > >>> to want to make the installer think I only have 2GB mem installed, > >>> so 1/2*2+2 = 3, which leaves a buffer for the install to succeed. > >>> But then, after the install and resintalling the physical memory (if > >>> I have to take it out), I would set the "kernel$" line in GRUB's > >>> menu.lst file to contain "dom0_mem=4G" - thus allocating 4GB to the > >>> Dom0, which should be more than enough to keep it from ever > >>> swapping. Just the same, would I have an issue since the dump/swap > >>> space was allocated assuming just 2GB mem? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Kent > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> install-discuss mailing list > >>> install-discuss at opensolaris.org > >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20080724/8c3c742a/attachment.html>
