I'm afraid the Solaris installer won't let me stop the process just before it
starts copying files to the target filesystem. It would be very nice to get
away with the UFS slice altogether, but between filesystem creation and
initialisation (which seems mandatory) and copying there is no pause
I've found it's fairly easy to trim down a 'core' install, installing
to a temporary UFS root,
doing the ufs - zfs thing, and then re-use the old UFS slice as swap.
Obviously you need a separate /boot slice in this setup.
On 03/07/07, Douglas Atique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm afraid the
Hi,
This is a report of my latest investigations on how to setup (by hand) your ZFS
root filesystem.
My experiment was carried on with Solaris Express Community Edition b66 DVD and
an additional disk slice to temporarily install the root fs to. It takes place
during the installation process as
