I just followed the text install on the 2021.04 GUi live image, and it created a single Rpool for the whole disk.
I'm not sure where I'm going to go from here. Need to have a sit and think. Thank you very much for all your efforts on this. I really do appreciate it. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 16:23 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- discuss wrote: > I just installed the 2021.04.30 text ISO on my Z400 test system. The > disk had a pool in a single slice which I imported and destroyed. Had > I not done that it would have named the pool rpool1. I left the disk > label alone. This was from testing manually creating a single slice > and installing into that using the F5 option which doesn't create > dump and swap on the expectation they already exist. > > The installer still has the usual spurious messages about only using > 2 TB. I selected an EFI label and did the install. > > That created a 256 MB s0 slice beginning in sector 256 with the rest > of the disk in s1. > > "zfs list" shows the pool has 4.39 TB available which is correct for > having used the entire disk. > > If you're going to run a 2 disk mirror with the 6 TB drives I'd > install to a single pool using the text installer. Assuming it works > properly. When the 8 TB drive returns, copy the data and then create > a matching label and add the drive to the pool to create a mirror. > > Unfortunately we are a tad shy on current documentation. > > Reg > > On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 10:15:53 AM CDT, Michelle < > miche...@msknight.com> wrote: > > Actually, I was wrong. It was the 2021.04 text install USB that I > was > using. I was using the text install because it's just a file server. > I > don't need X. > > Well, the situation I find myself in is as follows... > > A pair of 6tb reds, one of which has data on that I can't get off > until > one of my 8tb has come back from RMA.... > > So I thought I'd use the other 6tb to get this sorted, and by the > time > the other 6tb is ready to be put in, I would be able to install it > and > add it in. > > Going via the GUI installer, I'm wondering whether I'll be able to do > that. > > This is why I was following your script, but when it came to step 4, > the solaris partition was only 2tb max. However, I've just noted that > I > wasn't using the -e at the end of the format command, so after I've > made dinner I'll read up on that switch in the hope that this is what > will enable me to create the larger Solaris partition. > > Michelle. > > > On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 14:04 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via > openindiana- > discuss wrote: > > Michelle, > > > > What disks are you trying to use? If they are different sizes the > > recipe gets a bit more complex, but it's quite possible to get any > > arrangement for which you have a sufficient number of disks. Having > > spent 50 hours over 5 days battling the 2021.04.05 install I've had > > *lots* of practice installing both 2021.04.05 and 2020.10. > > > > Incidentally the failure of 2021.04.05 to run the nVIDIA driver is > > because it installed the wrong driver for that system. > > > > Reg > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 08:16:07 AM CDT, Michelle < > > miche...@msknight.com> wrote: > > > > > > OK - I give in. > > > > I've tried various combinations and I just can't get this into a > > configuration where I can get things installed. > > > > I need a step by step guide please, because I'm lost. I don't know > > what > > options to choose in the installer to not avoid it wanting to wipe > > whatever combinations of partitions I've set. > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
