You might also want to look at OmniOS if you have not already. > On 02 Oct 2015, at 00:20, Dirk Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently thinking about locally preparing a SmartOS disk image > by installing to a disk following the procedure outlined in > > https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Installing+Joyent+SmartOS+onto+a+Bootable+Disk+Partition > > I would probably do this in VMware Fusion. > > Then I want to deploy this disk image to a physical server that I rented > (kimsufi). > On that server I do not have a remote console and only a single disk, > no USB stick or anything else. The only remote access is via SSH when > the system is running. > > I know this sounds strange, but I have my reasons. The SmartOS version > that OVH/kimsufi is offering is too old for my purposes and the netboot > environment they are offering cannot be upgraded/modified by the user. > Therefore I need to install to the physical disk. > > Netbooting the Linux rescue system would allow me to remotely overwrite > the physical disk with my prepared image. The plan is to prepare a > small image to start with and expand that later to the size of the entire > physical > disk. Although the GPT label and the zones pool from the image would be > much smaller than the real disk size initially, I read somewhere the > SmartOS/ZFS supports growing LUNs in operation. While my case > isn’t exactly a LUN on a SAN that grows, the same concept should be > applicable here. > > What do I need to do to trigger the growing of the pool (including the GPT > label)? > > Will the GRUB boot code still function even if the disk geometry is different > on the > target disk? I believe it should work if LBA addressing is used. > > I think I need to configure both the MAC address and the IP address to match > that for my target system, as well as the default route. That should not be a > problem, all these parameters are known. Could I also use DHCP for the > global zone? I think kimsufi supports DHCP. > > Do I need to configure the ethernet device name somewhere (e1000g0)? > My current understanding is the this is auto-probed and the network > interface is matched based on the MAC address. > > Any other thoughts regarding my endeavor? Has anyone done this before? > Further hints/tips? > > I believe that Nahum Shalman has done something similar when he prepared > a SmartOS image to be run on JPC. > > http://blog.shalman.org/smartos-on-smartos-in-the-jpc/ > > He used two disks, and only have one, so it’s not exactly the same. > > Thanks for any helpful comments. > > Dirk > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription
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