Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Judah Richardson
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:16 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > I did just that. I hit "install" took the defaults, did a reboot and got > "non-system disk or disk error". Z840 and 4 TB disk. 1) Try a disk under 2 TB 2) Set the BIOS to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I did just that. I hit "install" took the defaults, did a reboot and got "non-system disk or disk error". Z840 and 4 TB disk. I got that result with both 2020.10.31 and 2021.04.30. What I did is *exactly* what most new users would do. I just checked the other stuff to see if the image was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Thank you, that at least gives me a toe hold. There has been considerable churn in the source organization since I started using OI (151_a5) and several attempts to sort out what was where and what the overall structure was left me quite baffled. The wiki has a lot of information which is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 12:44, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I'd be glad to fix them if I knew where the files that need to be modified > were located. Please enlighten me. You have been saying for months that you want to help, if only people would tell you where all the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Peter Tribble via openindiana-discuss
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:53 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > I'm going to try one more time. > > > --- > The 2021.04.30 GUI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'd be glad to fix them if I knew where the files that need to be modified were located. Please enlighten me. I tried to find the source for the text-install screen that incorrectly states an EFI whole disk will only use 2 TB. Python loads packages from a library, but I wasn't able to find

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 May 2021, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: All of these issues are also present in 2020.10.31 and possibly older releases. This is a huge deterrent to new users. None of them is a major task to fix. Will you be submitting the fixes soon? Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Judah Richardson
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:53 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > I'm going to try one more time. > > > --- > The 2021.04.30 GUI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] We need install images which work!

2021-05-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm going to try one more time. --- The 2021.04.30 GUI Live Image has major problems. gparted(1m) dumps core the documentation mentioned on the first GUI installer screen is missing