Steve Gaede wrote: >> The reason why you can't specify size in mirrors for jumpstart is that >> the two disks may have different geometry so the cylinder size and >> number of cylinders are different. >> > > Ahh, this makes perfect sense. I was assuming identical disks, which > is my situation. > > >> Once it failed, run the jumpstart in dryrun mode to provide more debug >> information and it will tell you which jumpstart line has the problem. >> > > This is what I get when I specify the size of the mirrored root partition > in megabytes: > > # /usr/sbin/install.d/pfinstall -D -c $s x > > Parsing profile > 1: # > 2: # Profile for installing a V120 with mirrored root on > 3: # two 73GB disk drives. > 4: # > 5: install_type initial_install > 6: system_type standalone > 7: # > 8: cluster SUNWCuser > 9: # > 10: # Disk partitioning > 11: # > 12: # > 13: partitioning existing > 14: filesys mirror:d0 c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 57707 / > > ERROR: Field 3 - Existing partitioning requires a size of "existing" > You can't use 'partitioning existing' (line 13) and define a new slice (filesystem) with a size (line 14) since they are opposites. > Test run complete. Exit status 2. > # > > As I noted in my original post, the check script rejects the word > "existing" in place of the size in megabytes. > > Here's the complete profile file: > > # > # Profile for installing a V120 with mirrored root on > # two 73GB disk drives. > # > install_type initial_install > system_type standalone > # > cluster SUNWCuser > # > # Disk partitioning > # > # > partitioning existing > filesys mirror:d0 c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 existing / > filesys c1t0d0s1 existing swap > filesys c1t0d0s6 existing /mnt > metadb c1t0d0s7 > # > # > filesys c1t1d0s1 existing swap > filesys c1t1d0s6 existing /mnt2 > metadb c1t1d0s7 > > So I'm back to my original question: is it really not possible to > set up disk mirroring on an initial install leaving the disk > partitioning as is? > I haven't tried this but you can try to remove 'partitioning existing' line and use existing for all other 'filesys' keyword.
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