In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install, david allan finch said (at...:
I am just about to build a new system:
What is the realistic small disk you can use to install on?
The recommended minimum is 20 GiB, but you could probably go smaller
if you didn't care about logging, didn't have much/any user data, etc.
https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/
If you search the mailing list archives, Peter Tribble has some info and
did a talk on minimizing an Illumos distro. If you're *really* space
constrained, perhaps his distro (Tribblix) may work for you.
What is the recommened size assumimg all no OS stuff will be on another pool?
(ie to take into account updates etc)
Not sure, but it's probably not much different than the general
recommended minimum.
Can you install a new system with a mirror as the boot drive? (I kind of
think that Solaris didn't allow this)
It can be done (that's how my system is configured), but not directly from
the GUI installer. It's been several years since I set mine up, but back
then there were some manual steps that were documented in the wiki.
However, since hipster 2016.10 the text-based installer (but not the GUI
installer) can install to mirrored drives directly:
http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#installing-openindiana
Can you extend the root pool by adding more disks after installation?
(stripes seams to imply you can)
I think the answer is yes, but I'm not certain. Both the zpool(1m) man
page (the section on 'attach') and the Oracle Solaris docs seem to imply
that you can, but the root pool might have special restrictions in that
regard. Hopefully someone else that knows can add better information
about that.
Tim
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