On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
> On Fri 09/01/09 05:26 , Dave Uhring daveuhring at yahoo.com sent: > > > The option is only available in the text mode > > installer. > > Oops, forgot that requirement. > > > > Options 3 or 4 IIRC. Option 3 is preferable since it also > > ensures that X Windows will run properly. > > With 3 you can also open another terminal and set the pool properties > (compression, copies etc) before the install starts. > > Note that the text mode installer is ... less than perfect. For example, it offers options to just do an install, or else to "preserve data". Preserve data works in UFS - it will overwrite the system files, but not touch "other" files, in particular it does not recreate the file system. For ZFS this option does not work - even though it detects and reports existing ZFS pools, if you do select one of them, it is recreated as a blank, so your existing OpenSolaris or Nexenta or whatever will be doing a magical disapearing trick. Wich is kinda silly because the installer realy should just create a new file system data set under the pool and use it. And selecting the wrong combination of options often causes the installer itself to just terminate without (much of an) error. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20090109/62011636/attachment.html>
