James Mansion wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> As Ethan noted, the problem James had is a direct result of using the >> text installer, which doesn't account for the tools at all. We will >> be using the Dwarf Caiman installer for the next SXDE release and the >> slice layout will be done quite a bit differently, see this thread: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31265&tstart=0 >> > That's good - it does seem that it takes pretty much the opposite > decision to one that would make sense on a single-partition > 'consumer/hobby' install -- it may make sense for systems which are > primarily storage based or automounting applications, or placing > database or mail storage on other volumes (ie pretty much everything I > use Solaris for at work) but its just a world of pain for casual > installs onto a PC to play with the dev tools -- or indeed with > postgresql, or with Cool Stack. > > I think the defaults should look much more like a Windows or Ubuntu or > similar install - swap and 'everything else'. Anyone who desires to do > otherwise is hopefully understanding why they want to do it and > competant to make some sort of decision. >
In what way do you think it will be painful? The intent here is to keep user data separate from the OS and to provide multiple slices for the OS; this sets up the system so that Live Upgrade can be used (or so that we'll have a slice to create a separate ZFS pool later on when making that transition). > BTW I noted that Moinak had enabled swap to a Linux swap partition - > will we have an option for that too? > Not in this release. Dave
