Hi Jim, Jean-Pierre, I have reorganized the content of the page, using Jim's email as an introduction and moving my page and Jean-Pierre's email to child pages.
You can see the end result here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26543005 Tell me if you like it or would rather do it differently. Bryan On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:01:55 +0200 Jean-Pierre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Jim Klimov wrote: > > On 2013-08-30 22:07, Jean-Pierre wrote: > >> Jim Klimov wrote: > >>> On 2013-08-30 19:33, Jean-Pierre wrote: > >>>> FIXME : The Windows wording for partition is volume and the OpenIndiana > >>>> one is slice. > >>> > >>> I did not read it all (yet) but this here is a bit of misunderstanding > >>> that I'd like to correct early on. Maybe just simplification for people > >>> new to this all, but not correct still. > >> [...] > >>> > >>> So, long story short, "The OpenIndiana wording for partition is slice" > >>> is not a correct statement, and may mislead readers in the future :) > >> > >> I was aware of differences of concepts between the systems, > >> and the need for some introductory precautions, so I > >> marked the sentence as FIXME. You also raise an alarm on GPT > >> partitions and LVM both of which should probably be excluded > >> from the procedure (I have no personal experience about them). > >> > >> Maybe you can suggest an introduction, avoiding unnecessary > >> details ? > > > > I am not really a good author (yet) on short meaningful texts, > > as I try to detail everything so that even a newbie can speed > > up to understanding the "how" and "why" of systems to administer. > > > > That said, I can try :) > > > > --- > > > > This article explains some approaches to multi-booting OpenIndiana > > residing along with some other operating systems on the same hard > > disk (or SSD). First, a few words about the limitations that you > > should be aware of. > > > > OpenIndiana currently supports only booting from disks with legacy > > MBR partitioning, which among other things limits the boot drives > > to 2Tb and less. On many systems this is a moderate limitation, > > because it is recommended to keep the OS (mirror) separately from > > data/zone pool, frequently stored on a larger set of larger drives. > > > > UNCERTAIN: OpenIndiana requires(?) that its MBR partition is among > > the "primary" four partitions (and if your set of operating systems > > needs more partitions, at least for data volumes, you might require > > to use one of these four to define an "extended" partition - a large > > container spanning the "rest of the disk", usually after a contiguous > > space divided among the remaining three primary partitions; note below > > about tricks for systems with over 9 partitions). > > > > While OI lays out a "slice table" in its partition, and actually > > uses one of these slices (the only one by default, covering most > > of the partition) for the ZFS rpool, it is also picky in that a > > drive should not contain several MBR partitions marked with Solaris > > aka type 0x82 (the number is also used by default for Linux swap > > partitions). > > > > OpenIndiana uses a special branch of GRUB with ZFS support and may > > lack direct support of newer filesystem and volume layouts relevant > > for other operating systems, though it can chainload Windows and can > > directly load Linux kernel and initrd miniroot files from partitions > > formatted as ext2/ext3 (however it can not, for example, interpret > > partitions with Linux LVM - containers of volumes with filesystems > > inside). > > > > Now that we've covered what you can not do, let's see what you *can* > > do, and *how* you can do it.... > > > > --- > > > > Then your and/or Bryan's article goes on to detail multi-booting... > > > > I don't want to hijack his page which as of now specifically regards > > multiboot with Windows, and don't really have time available now to > > combine and polish the texts; but if any of you guys feel like making > > a page with consistent style and content on this matter - feel free > > to use or adapt this exprompto introduction, if you like it ;) > > Oh yes, nice job, I do like it. > > I will try to check whether you can install OpenIndiana > on a logical partition. > > Jean-Pierre > > > > > HTH, > > //Jim Klimov > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Bryan N Iotti +39 366 3708436 [email protected]
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