Sadly rather messy. I was forced to use a gparted live CD to relabel the disk
and got 128 partitions instead of the 9 the Sun EFI label creates.
Here's what the system reports after the initial reboot. The console log while
I fumbled around with "format -e" and "I'm sorry. I can't do that." was too
crazy to bother cleaning up. I'd have to do it all over. At this point I know
how to get what I want. So I plan to order large disks and do my s0 & s1
layout.
BTW "format -e" will dump core on a SEGV fault if it doesn't like the label.
Only solution I know is to label via a USB hard drive adapter or a live CD.
Key point is to create the partition table and pool *before* you start the
text-install from the GUI Live Image. Then select F5 on the first screen of
the installer to use an existing pool.
I hope this proves useful to someone. I suspect that you can do it on S10 u8
and may try it at some point. However, it really is time to update that system.
In summary, you can do any sort of install you want, but as has been the case
with every installer I've ever run, you'll probably have to do it a dozen times
to get what you want.
I can see no reason that large disks can't be handled in the GUI installer and
present the user with a 9 slice table as per traditional Sun SMI labels. I had
that until I decided I'd demonstrate a full disk install. Should have quit
while I was ahead. I plan to go back to the 100 GB root pool in s0 and the
rest in s1, so I'll try to capture that process more accurately when I build
out the new disk array.
Have Fun!
Reg
NB I'm sending this from the install described.
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root@2021-04-rc1:~# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
root@2021-04-rc1:~# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 6.15G 4.40T 35K /rpool
rpool/ROOT 6.15G 4.40T 24K legacy
rpool/ROOT/full-disk 6.15G 4.40T 5.37G /
rpool/ROOT/full-disk/var 787M 4.40T 784M /var
root@2021-04-rc1:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4d0
* /dev/rdsk/c4d0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 9767374848 sectors
* 9767374781 accessible sectors
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 34 222 255
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 4 00 256 9767358175 9767358430
8 11 00 9767358431 16384 9767374814
root@2021-04-rc1:~#
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