On 8/16/25 11:21, Atiq Rahman wrote:
Hello Stephan,
> now i just swap the boot discs. Its far easier.... additional boot
disc (128-512 gb?)
Are you using them on a desktop PC or on a server setup? For what
purposes do you use OI?
Cheers!
Atiq
On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM Stephan Althaus via oi-dev
<oi-dev@openindiana.org> wrote:
On 8/16/25 07:50, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice” and “partition”.
They are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr case and “partition” for
everything else.
Thank you for sharing the fun fact!
Hi all!
Just to share my humble opinion..
Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too. These
slices never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is whole disc' -
why no. 2??)
Especially for new users without solarish bachground a tool that
is 'like fdisk' would be handy - i really don't like format and
fdisk cause i don't really know what they do :-/
On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are sort of
this, for 'modern' GPT disc labels.
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i don't need
anything else anymore.
For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one case i did
pre-partinioning to create a pool that is smaller than whole disc
for later mirroing..,
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.
~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i just swap the
boot discs. Its far easier.
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?) really
free spare time to create something more productive.
Just my 2 cents,
Stephan
Hi!
I have a laptop as my daily workstation, running OI with GUI, nvidia
m1200 buildtin.
I use standard apps like firefox, librewolf, thunderbird, gimp,
libreoffice, ...
For my remote work i have a VBox vm which acts as my Window into the
company's vpn which has 'some' requirements.
I have a primergy server with gui-less OI and zones for my private cloud
services (synchronized EMail, family calendar, Photos, ...)
I have a 3rd workstation where i use the swap disc solution where i use
and test some bhyve with GPU passthrough configurations, now merely
between FreeBSD and OI and SmartOS... (no success on illumos with win
guest yet)
i thought of having a MacOS vm for my private photo editing, but didn't
got so far..
I really like the Boot Environments, so you call always go back if
theres some issue (try that on linux/win)
Second, is illumos its bomb stable, and the OI maintainers do an
impressive job on keeping all packages clean and on current versions...
i whish i had more time to spend on OI contributing.. Contributing here
is really easy, at least when you've done it 2-3 times: fork->local
clone->branch->change->commit->push->PR ... But i have done not more
than more than a few veeery simple Version upgrades...
Regards,
Stephan
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