I'd like to eventually figure some way to get oi installed on my HP xw8600 There was a time, A little before build 147 when I was able to install OI onto this same hardware, and able to run it for several years. Updating periodically.
A sort of catastrophe happened a few months ago involving disk failures causing me to replace 2 and add 2 more, But needing to reinstall from scratch. However all my attempts just fail repeatedly. I've tried both DVD and USB media, I've gone back to 2018, 2019, 201031. Eventually the attempted install collapses with all services failed into `maint' mode where nothing seems to be possible. Someone more skilled than I may be able to get it going... I haven't been able. I heard a few other people have had similar trouble .. not sure how similar. In the meantime I decided to go with linux running zfs (ubuntu 20.04). Which on my hardware, is possible to install from Either DVD or usb, with no problem. I'm hoping I may eventually get OI installed with new releases. If that seems possible, will I be able to export 2 zpools (not rpool) from the linux install, and then install OI erasing what was rpool in linux, and make that the rpool for OI, then import the pools exported under linux? I suspect that may not be possible but would like to hear about it from someone who isn't guessing like I am. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
