Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

Gparted(1m) on the Live Image worked at one time. Now it does not. But it's still there despite my raising an issue and the triviality of simply removing it from the Desktop. I don't recall if the "Getting Started" document referenced in the GUI installer was ever there. I'd have to boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

Hi Reg Hipster is a Rolling release model meaning updates land directly in the package repositories for each package. ISO "Releases" are simply there to mark a point where we look back onto the last 6 months and can actually see how much has moved. And it's the point we want to make it as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

So if I do a "pkg update" after each ISO release I should track the ISOs? How do I ensure that I pick up new packages in an ISO? Do I specify a tag? It seems unlikely that the package list would be immutable. Reg On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 05:52:51 PM CDT, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

On 5/1/21 3:31 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I tried a text-install of 2021.04.30  into an existing 2020.10.31 pool, but the user information didn't propagate to the new BE.  Is this a bug, install mistake or the wrong way to update? The wrong way to update. Install

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

I'm on the rolling release, but pkg upgrade -v - r updates the OS & OI repo packages and also creates a rollback BE. As to how one moves between ISO releases, I have no idea. However, I've found the rolling release sufficiently stable for my purposes anyway. On Sat, May 1, 2021, 17:32 Reginald

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

Thanks! On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 05:25:16 PM CDT, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 10:05, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > How about a pkg or explicit instructions (e.g. a shell script) for setting up > to be able to generate an ISO?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommended way to migrate to a new release?

I tried a text-install of 2021.04.30  into an existing 2020.10.31 pool, but the user information didn't propagate to the new BE.  Is this a bug, install mistake or the wrong way to update? All the stuff I found on the wiki was quite old.  Nothing discussed updates from one Hipster release to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 10:05, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > How about a pkg or explicit instructions (e.g. a shell script) for setting up > to be able to generate an ISO? http://docs.openindiana.org/dev/distribution-constructor/ Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone have an example of service manifest XML file for znapzend?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:15:14PM -0500, Judah Richardson wrote: > Literally all I want to do is ensure znapzend starts at boot. Nothing > fancy. Try this: # pkg install znapzend # svcadm enable znapzend HTH -- +---+ | Marcel Telka e-mail:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 09:16:45 AM CDT, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: [snip] >I want to use this announcement to remind everybody that we are seeking >for volunteers who help us to maintain OpenIndiana. >Kind regards, >Andreas How about a pkg or explicit instructions (e.g. a shell script) for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

That's what it should do but the messages in the install program are quite confusing. It will actually let you do anything you want, but it is not easy to sort out how. In 34 years of doing admin work I have *never* had to spend more than a few hours to get a working system. The failure to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

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,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone have an example of service manifest XML file for znapzend?

I wound up having to generate the service manifest after all. Apparently you can do this for any background process via , e.g.: svccfg export znapzend On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

On May 1, 2021, at 10:16 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Hi all, > > another six months have passed by and so the creation of new snapshot > images were due. > The usual images have been assembled and put on our download server > https://www.openindiana.org/download/ > Furthermore, something

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

The text-install disk doesn't install X. I think the 2 text installers may not be the same, but have not verified that. They *should* be. You can do all the stuff with format(1m) in single user mode. I use the GUI installer because I want the GUI and it is more convenient to have the MATE

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here

Hi all, another six months have passed by and so the creation of new snapshot images were due. The usual images have been assembled and put on our download server https://www.openindiana.org/download/ Furthermore, something like release notes have been collected and also have been put it on our

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

Thanks. I'll give that a go. I'm using the text installer 2020.10 and on that, I can't create a Solaris partition greater than 2tb. I've got the GUI live image here somewhere. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 13:50 +, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana- discuss wrote: > What release are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

What release are you trying to install? I last did this using 2021.04.05, but I can easily verify the behavior with 2020.10. I *strongly* recommend that you put all the disks you plan to use in the machine and run the text-installer from the Live Desktop. Select F2 on the first screen. When

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

Toomas, Thanks for the explanation. That certainly sounds like a good idea. It provides lots of flexibility. It would nice if the text-installer allowed specifying the BE name when creating a fresh pool or defaulted to the release, e.g. 2021.04, instead of openindiana. The latter is not very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 15:30, Michelle wrote: > > That's where I'm becoming unstuck. > > A Solaris 2 partition will only see the first 2Tb. > > There hangs my first problem. > > If I try and create any other partition it gives me the warning about > the 2TB limit and if I then try and create

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 15:22, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > >  > I just went through several iterations of this, and like you the last time I > had done it was long ago. The following is based on 2021.04.05. > > Large disks require an EFI or GPT label. The gparted

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

That's where I'm becoming unstuck. A Solaris 2 partition will only see the first 2Tb. There hangs my first problem. If I try and create any other partition it gives me the warning about the 2TB limit and if I then try and create the EFI partition, it won't co-exist with anything and wants to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

I just went through several iterations of this, and like you the last time I had done it was long ago. The following is based on 2021.04.05. Large disks require an EFI or GPT label. The gparted program creates 128 slices which is a bit much. format(1m) will also write an EFI label which is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 11:10, Michelle wrote: > > I'm just going to try breaking it down to two Solaris 2 partitions and > see where that takes me. > > Michelle. Solaris2 (as MBR partition type) - our tools assume there is one Solaris2 partition. As you have 6TB disks, you can not really use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

I'm just going to try breaking it down to two Solaris 2 partitions and see where that takes me. Michelle. On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 08:56 +0100, Michelle wrote: > OK - I appear to be well out of touch. > > I booted the installer and went into prompt. > > Used format (only 1 x 6TB drive in the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

OK - I appear to be well out of touch. I booted the installer and went into prompt. Used format (only 1 x 6TB drive in the machine at this point) to create a new Solaris 2 partition table and then fdisk'd an all free hog to partition 1, giving partition 0 100gig. I noticed that it must have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 10:31, Michelle wrote: > > Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in 2014. > > My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the > main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP, > that's changed. > > In

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in 2014. My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP, that's changed. In 2014 I did a test. I took two 40gig drives and did the partitions