James, and other Indiana Fans, On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, James Cornell wrote:
> Hi Kevin. There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely > remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a > bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, > using 99% of the rest of the space on the pool. Maybe someone here > knows what I'm, talking about and can point you in the right direction > regarding this option, though keep in mind this is not for Indiana. SXCE > has zfs root support, and is still a better option IMHO for most > purposes, at least until they respin Indiana and make the installer less > dorky with regards to partitioning. With SXCE you can use the old > installer and configure a lot more. I suspect much of my difficulties in setting things up the way I want them is due to the inflexibility of the Indiana installer. I should probably mention that I don't hold this against the Indiana team at all. Indiana is a work in progress, and hopefully anyone trying to use it in it's current state realizes that. While on the subject of installers, can I throw in my $0.02? I know, I'm old fashioned, but I personally prefer text based installers such as those used by Debian, FreeBSD, etc. Well, actually, I prefer programs with text based user interfaces in general. I'm typing this e-mail in Alpine. Of course, many of my personal preferences might make people think I'm a bit odd. I work as an IBM mainframe operator, in a z/OS shop, and although there are only a few left here in the computer room I'm still quite fond of 3179 dumb terminals. I especially like their keyboards. At home I'm still using an IBM model M keyboard I got back in the 486 days. Add to that the fact that almost every vehicle I've ever owned has had a standard transmission, I shave with a straight razor, and have twelve dogs and things just keep getting odder and odder. :-) Okay, sorry for veering so far off topic. I've been searching the net, unsuccessfully so far, trying to find the article you mentioned. It sounds like SXCE might be worth a try until Indiana's installer gains more features. If anyone could point me towards the article in question I'd appreciate it. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
