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 disk to match the profile -- it does it for you. I spent about an hour on that before realizing 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 died) 3. Here's the modified profile I used: install_type initial_install filesys mirror c1d0s1 c2d0s1 4096 swap pool rootpool free / mirror c1d0s0 c2d0s0 dataset rootpool/BE1 auto / dataset rootpool/BE1/usr auto /usr dataset rootpool/BE1/opt auto /opt dataset rootpool/BE1/var auto /var dataset rootpool/BE1/export auto /export metadb c1d0s7 size 8192 count 3 metadb c2d0s7 size 8192 count 3 As I said, might not be the best or even correct, but thanks to the patched DVD, it is up and running :) Malachi On 4/25/07, Malachi de Ælfweald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.... 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 4/25/07, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 install media and mount the dvd image > there. > > zfsboot.tar.bz2 is a vmware image made on a VMWare Server 1.0.1 > machine. > > I did the install with no network setup, so you'll have to manually do > the network setup yourself. > > I originally set it up and was going to do a sys-unconfig before tarring > > it up, but some broken logic in sys-unconfig sees a zfs root system as > being diskless and refuses to run. That being the case I reinstalled > with no network setup and haven't even done the first reboot at this > point so expect to sit through the initial SMF import. (didn't take > long on the machine I was doing it on). > > Oh, btw, in /zfsboot on the dvd/cd (shows up under /cdrom/zfsboot when > you are booted into the installer) there is an example profile that sets > > up a non-mirrored zfsboot system. This is the exact one I used for the > install of this VM, and I put it there so that if you need to change it > you could copy it to /tmp and tweak it. I found that pasting into the > vmware console didn't work for me and I got tired of hand-writing it. ;) > > Enjoy!! > > -brian > > ps: the iso's will be up shortly, they are zipping now. You will be > able > to tell they are done because I won't upload the cksum files until after > > the iso images upload completes. When you see .sum files, you know they > are done. > -- > "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant. > In the hands of a skilled artisan, it can and does happen; it's just > that most of the shit out there is built by people who'd be better > suited to making sure that my burger is cooked thoroughly." -- Jonathan > Patschke > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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