Paul,

Great comments. Completely forgot about those two critical aspects.

@Christian: You’d need to add the following to /usbkey/config for a German 
keyboard map - once you got past the disk issue.

default_keymap=germany

Peter

> Am 14.01.2017 um 13:29 schrieb Paul Sture <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 14 Jan 2017, at 11:19, Peter Kelm wrote:
> 
>> - Did you run through the SmartOS setup procedure on first boot? It should 
>> have asked you for which disks to use for the „zones“ pool, network 
>> configuration,… We haven’t done this for quite a while, so I can’t recall 
>> whether the installer asks to set a root password too at this stage…
> 
> Yes, it does ask for the root password.  Note that at this point the keyboard 
> is in US layout.
> 
> Some tips for the beginner.
> 
> How to change the root password on an existing Global Zone:
> 
> http://www.kylegato.com/2014/03/how-to-change-the-root-password-on-a-smartos-system.html
> 
> Setting the keyboard map for the console. I heartily recommend setting this 
> if you have a non-US keyboard (issuing zfs and zpool commands on a QWERTZ 
> keyboard is, ahem, error prone).
> 
> https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/smartos-global-zone-tweaks.html
> 
> Setting the timezone. UTC is recommended for the Global Zone (think dates in 
> logfiles etc), zones can be localised independently if required:
> 
> # vim /etc/default/init
> 
> TZ=UTC
> 
> or localised:
> 
> TZ=Europe/Zurich
> 
> reboot required to take effect.
> 



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