On 2021-01-25 17:18, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote:
v1 is failed because no one could give a solution.
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2021-January/023341.html
So I start v2.
As I said here:
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2021-January/023555.html
I only left with fdisk. And my guess was right, it's not work.
The ONLY thing it showed me is a EFI partition with Length is 250, no other
partitions to expand, no actual partition that contain the distro's data.
The Solaris fdisk is extremely limited compared to Linux fdisk or even
FreeBSD, to be fair!
I don't know your partitioning scheme on your live usb.
Please explain and give me DETAIL answer, not kind of DIY answers I
previously
received on v1.
If my guess is not wrong, then:
You just have an EFI partition in order to boot.
Then you just dd-ed your iso image into the unallocated space and let your
boot
loader mount it during boot.
This is the reason why fdisk only shows just one EFI partition and nothing
else.
Does it true?
I saw no UFS partition, no writable file systems at all to be fair. On
Linux,
Gparted only display a bunch of black and very small partitions:
https://imgur.com/FmcrVMF.png
If there was an UFS file system, Linux could mount it automatically, auto
mount is
turned on on all Linux nowadays, albeit just read-only for UFS. But, I saw
nothing.
Well. I'm pretty sure the gpartd on the live OI disk can see (OI) UFS
partition.
The thing is. The partitions that are available for the LIVE install are
memory
disks; that is; (compressed) images on the (.usb|.iso) and are unpacked into
memory. So that no disks are touched until *install* is chosen. I know for
sure
how FreeBSD does it. I do it all the time. But I'll need to have a look at
the
OI live installs. I'll take a look, and see if I can give you a recipe to
accomplish what you want/need. :-)
--Chris
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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