On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:56:04PM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote:
If you lose the primary drive, and your dump device points to the
metadevice, then you wouldn't have to reset it. Also, most folks use the
Eh, that's true, not something I've really ever had to think about due
to your next
Brian Hechinger wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:44:02PM -0700, Malachi de ??lfweald wrote:
2. ZFS mirroring can work without the metadb, but if you want the dump
mirrored too, you need the metadb (I don't know if it needs to be mirrored,
but I wanted both disks to be identical in case one
For Brian, et al: Thank you very much. I burned the DVD, and did some minor
tweaking to the profile, and it is up and running (now to just n00b admin
troubleshooting)
For everyone else who is new to this and trying it out, a couple things I
noticed:
1. Don't waste your time trying to format the
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:44:02PM -0700, Malachi de ??lfweald wrote:
For Brian, et al: Thank you very much. I burned the DVD, and did some minor
tweaking to the profile, and it is up and running (now to just n00b admin
troubleshooting)
For everyone else who is new to this and trying it out,
As promised, here it is:
https://jeffshare.jefferson.edu/users/blh008/Public/Solaris/
b62_zfsboot.iso.bz2 is a bootable patched b62 DVD.
b62_zfsboot_cd1.iso.bz2 is a bootable patched b63 CD1. I'm not
sure how useful this is unless you know how to tell pfinstall how
to look to an NFS server for
That's awesome!
So, to clarify... If I burn the b62_zfsboot.iso to a DVD and boot from it
with the intention of doing a fresh install
What are the correct steps to do the setup with a zfs mirrored boot? Follow
the installer? Follow the netinstall or Tom's instructions?
Thanks,
Malachi
On
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:36:46PM -0700, Malachi de ??lfweald wrote:
That's awesome!
So, to clarify... If I burn the b62_zfsboot.iso to a DVD and boot from it
with the intention of doing a fresh install
Yes. Upgrade/Flash installs are not availble with zfs boot yet.
What are the
The kit that I promised for patching an install image
to support the profile-based install of systems with
zfs root file systems has been posted. It's at:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/zfsboot-kit-20060418.i386.tar.bz2
Unpack it and see the README file for instructions.
