> Or they never changed any code. Of course they didn't. That's a property of good engineering. You know this full well.
> That is, you *cannot* move the slice used for the > miniroot once install > has started. > > I'm not sure how this is solved for IRIX, but I > remember that this wasn't > fun in SunOS. There was no need to move the swap partition. If one wanted to repartition, `fx` (the tool used) was available to run directly from IDPROM, as a raw executable, loaded from a special partition via sash or sasharcs, or once the miniroot was loaded and running, from the miniroot as an ELF binary. One could then repartition at-will, reboot, load the miniroot into the swap slice again, and plough on like nothing ever happened. You set your swap slice to anywhere from 512MB to 2GB and were hunky-dory to proceed with the install. IRIX used only one partition per default, /, and this was always set to be the remaining disk space. Elegant and highly efficient. It's really too bad Solaris isn't assimilating that technology and elegance. Solaris is like a V8 in certain aspects: brute force horsepower, but no finesse nor elegance. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
