On 01/29/17 02:58 PM, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues:
I am trying to install OI Hipster on a laptop, and some other time I
may tell you about the installation environment's inability to sense
the builtin pointer device so I had to attach a USB mouse. And maybe
some other time I may tell you about how I would type a character on
the keyboard into a terminal-emulator window, and I would see the
character echo a few hundred times (this is not an exaggeration), so I
had to attach a USB keyboard. Right now I am writing about something
that I have not been able to fix by sticking something into a USB
port, namely, the apparent inability of the installation program to
see the GPT partition table.
When you click (with the USB mouse, of course) on the "Install
OpenIndiana" icon, the first question it asks you is "Where should
OpenIndiana be installed"? That same screen asserts that "the
following partitions, in physical order, were found on the disk" and
then contrafactually states that I have 1 slice (forgive me if I still
call them "slices") of type "EFI" of size 931.5 gigabyes, followed by
3 slices of type "unused". Nope. I have 10 slices, and slice 9 has
type 0xbf00, which designates it to be my Solaris slice. How do I
install OI Hipster into it? Thank you in advance for any and all
replies.
Hello.
1) Currently GUI installer is not evolving. All features, if added, are
added to text installer. You can use text install ISO or text installer
from GUI ISO.
2) Text installer can install OS on whole GPT disk, but not on GPT
partition.
3) It can be possible to create layout manually and install OS on GPT
partition if you do it by hands.
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Manual+installation+of+OpenIndiana+from+LiveCD+media
contains instructions on doing this (perhaps, a bit outdated).
--
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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