[My system is back now, so...]
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:42:29 PDT
Nicolaus <njhill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No. However, this isn't a problem. What you do is
> > install to a
> > single-disk zfs pool, then add a second disk to the
> > pool as a mirror.
> You can do that? nice.
Yup. Just do "zpool attach pool bootdisk newdisk". That automatically
adds newdisk as a mirror of bootdisk, and starts the silvering
process. I'm used to using this approach with other mirroring software
as well; does the Linux volume manager not work that way?
> > Yes. Use the SXCE distribution, which lets you
> > customize the
> > install. At least one of the choices has no GUI
> > component.
> ok, I downloaded the latest SXCE I could find and got this:
> sol-nv-b98-x86-dvd.iso
> opted for the single DVD option.
> for some screwy reason it fails a ms5sum though.
If it failed the md5sum, then the download is probably broken. Try
downloading it again. Unless someone wants to tell us that the
checksum listed for it is wrong?
> it also gets precisely nowhere in virtualbox. Might try it later on my
> desktop later with all of my regular drives pulled later. (have a 80Gig drive
> here reserved for mucking about with things or other such stuff)
You don't say which VBox you have, but 2.0 has been reported as
flaky. 2.0.2 may be better, but I'd try the latest 1.6 before giving
up. But I'd suspect the download to be broken first.
> > Yes. In fact, it's bundled with the distribution.
> > Install the
> > appropriate optional packages (I don't have one set
> > up, so can't tell
> > you the names right now) and reboot and you should
> > get a new boot
> > option for hypervisor mode.
> nice.
You want the SUNWxvm* packages.
> I don't suppose there's a admin guide for SXCE available anywhere? I don't
> know much about how solaris names devices and such like that.
Not that I know of. Much of it will be the same as any other
OpenSolaris distro that's not trying to replace great swaths of the
code base with something else, so I'd start with whatever you can find
for that. If you can't find what you need there, try the Solaris 10
docs, as not everything has changed since then.
<mike
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