Dear Ian, Thank you for your advice. It works! Though I really don't like this literally get-hands-dirty workaround...
I pull most memories to make the machine "normal". Then install SmartOS, no problem. Then resize the swap zone to 2G and poweroff. Then insert the memories back and boot again. A new problem arises here: the svc:/system/filesystem/smartdc:default service fails. I check the log, the reason is the dump zone is too small. It seems that the default size of this zone is 1/100 of the whole disk, so it is set to be 1.43G. But when the machine has 256G memory, a dump zone should be at least 5.xxG (I don't know how this number comes). So I resize the dump zone to fulfill the requirement, and reboot again. There is no problem this time. Best wishes, Si-Qi > 在 2016年11月25日，17:29，Ian Collins <[email protected]> 写道： > > On 11/25/16 10:05 PM, Si-Qi Liu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install SmartOS on my HP Z820 workstation, which has 256G >> memory and 160G SSD hard disk. >> >> There is no problem when I setup the network, the zpool, the root password, >> and so on. Finally, when I press 'y' and >> 'Enter' to start to installation, it fail. The reason is quite simple: when >> the installing script create the swap zone, there >> is no enough disk space, so it just stop there, and give me a prompt. I >> tried to create a small swap zone by myself, >> but I didn't know what to do next. Simply reboot doesn't work. > > Have you tried pulling some of the memory just for the install? > >> BTW, for a machine with 256G memory, is there necessary to create a swap >> zone? If so, how big should it be? > > Once you have installed, you can resize the swap volume. I'd say yes, and > for this machine, keep it small. > > Cheers. > > -- > Ian. > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
