OK - I appear to be well out of touch. I booted the installer and went into prompt.
Used format (only 1 x 6TB drive in the machine at this point) to create a new Solaris 2 partition table and then fdisk'd an all free hog to partition 1, giving partition 0 100gig. I noticed that it must have gone on for 40 odd partitions, and also there was none of the usual backup and reserved partitions for 2, 8 and 9 as I saw before. On installation of OI, I selected the drive and got the warning... "you have chosen a gpt labelled disk. installing onto a gpt labelled disk will cause the loss of all existing data" Out of interest I continued through and got the options for whole disk or partition (MBR) ... the second of which gave me a 2Tb Solaris 2 partition in the list. I did try F5 to change partition, but it just took me straight back to the installation menu at the start again. Things have obviously moved on and I haven't kept pace. I now have to work out how to do this on a gpt drive. If anyone has any notes, I'd be grateful. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 08:31 +0100, Michelle wrote: > Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in > 2014. > > My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the > main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP, > that's changed. > > In 2014 I did a test. I took two 40gig drives and did the partitions > as > an all free hog on partition 0 ... I was simply testing the ability > to > configure rpool on two drives and have both active, so if one failed > the other would keep running the OS. > > My immediate thought is to have 100gig for the OS on partition 0 and > the rest on partition 1. Also, turn on auto expand for the tank pool > and off for the rpool. > > That's my gut feel. > > Anyone got any advice to offer please, before I commit finger to > keyboard? > > Michelle. > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss