On 15 August 2017 15:44:21 GMT+02:00, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >John Covici wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:52:45 -0400, >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 15/08/2017 14:49, Grant wrote: >>>> I'm trying to get started on my first Gentoo install on ZFS. My >>>> remote server is booted to a Gentoo LiveCD and I've SSH'ed in but >it >>>> looks like the CD doesn't have ZFS tools: >>>> >>>> livecd ~ # zpool status >>>> -bash: zpool: command not found >>>> >>>> Can I pull this off from here or do I need to mail a different CD >to my host? >>>> >>>> This server has 6 SSDs and I'm planning to set up a 2-way stripe >and >>>> 3-way mirror. Any tips that might help me pull this off? >>>> >>>> - Grant >>>> >>> >>> The Gentoo LiveCD is really nothing more than a feel-nice tool for >>> people who want to install Gentoo from a Gentoo tool; it is very >much >>> completely not required. >>> >>> Do your install from any medium you feel like as long as it has all >the >>> tools you need. >>> >>> I suppose you *could* emerge the zfs tools on the running LiveCD >system >>> if it supports fs merging but it's probably easier to use a medium >that >>> already has everything you want >> >> I would like to know which cd has zfs support. I could not find one, >> so I wrote some catalyst stuff to make an install cd with zfs >support, >> but it would be nice if I would not have to do that, a fair bit of >> work. >> > >Just for giggles, SystemRescueCd maybe?? Gentoo based and it has a lot >of tools just not sure on that one. > >Dale > >:-) :-)
Not systemresccd. But the one I linked to is a rebuild of that with zfs and multipathing added. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
