Indiana Fans,
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Dave Miner wrote:
> At this point, you'd have to do manual hacking because that's not a
> scenario the installer is designed to support. The basic idea to work
> around it would be to install to some other disk, such as a USB drive,
> set up the disk the way you want it, mirror the root pool to the desired
> location, and do an installgrub to make it bootable.
I think I've discovered a simpler solution. Someone somewhere in this
thread said I should use slices to create zpools. Well, by ignoring that
advice I've just achieved my goal while working around the Indiana
installer's limitations without too much trouble.
My Goal - I have two harddrives in my desktop box. I wanted to use part
of the space on my first harddrive for my root pool, and use the remainder
of the space on that drive and all of the space on the second drive to
create a non-root pool. At the moment, my disks are known as c6d0 and
c6d1. On some installs, they've been known as c5d0 and c5d1. So, here's
what I did:
1. I fired up the installer and chose to partition my first disk.
What's a good size for a root pool? I erred on the side of caution
and probably created a much larger pool than I needed. I told the
installer to create a 25GB Solaris partition, and left the remainder
of the drive's space unallocated.
2. After installing, I used format to create a second partition on my
first harddrive of type other.
3. I created my non-root pool with:
# pfexec zpool create sys1 c6d0p2 c6d1
I'm from the IBM mainframe world. If the installed had let me choose
the name of my root pool I would have named it sys1 and named my
non-root pool sys2.
4. I moved /export/home to my new non-root pool and created a few other
filesystems such as /pub, /priv, etc.
Tada!!!!! I now have a layout that makes good use of all my available
drive space.
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!!!
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