What is bare metal ? Is it the same as physical ? Because, yes,I want to install OI directly on my hardware,without using any kind of hypervisor.
Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 19:57 Judah Richardson < [email protected]> ha scritto: > I would suggest finding a machine you can dedicate to running OI on bare > metal. You can certainly persist in your partition installation effort but > given that you've never used ZFS before IMO you'd just be setting yourself > up for a wide range of unforeseen, unique to you, and difficult to > support/solve problems. > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:49 PM Mario Marietto <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So,what's happening here ? If is a good practice to install ZFS on the > > entire disk and is a good practice to use ZFS and I can install OI only > on > > the 50% of the disk,what should I do ? > > > > Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 19:35 Judah Richardson < > > [email protected]> ha scritto: > > > > > ZFS has been the default on FreeBSD installations for a while now ;) > > > > > > I wouldn't consider using ZFS on anything less than an entire disk good > > > practice, but like driving a car with motorcycle wheels instead of the > > > stock wheels it's something that can be done if truly desired. > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:26 AM Till Wegmueller <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey Mario > > > > > > > > If you are still using UFS on FreeBSD that is like ext2 on Linux, so > if > > > > you want to install into another partition, you have to have a > > partition > > > > table that is readable by the illumos kernel. Then you can create a > ZFS > > > > pool on that partition and install into that. > > > > > > > > If you are not used to ZFS yet with illumos you will have to. FreeBSD > > > > would like you to use it aswell. (IIRC it's the default for FreeBSD) > So > > > > it's a good time to read up on it. > > > > > > > > -Till > > > > > > > > On 13.10.21 13:16, Mario Marietto wrote: > > > > > I never used ZFS. Is it doable even using another FS that I don't > > know > > > > > which type it is ?. For example on FreeBSD the basic FS is ufs. So > > > > usually > > > > > when I install it I choose ufs instead of ZFS. Maybe I will study > ZFS > > > > > later,since now I don't want to make things more complicated than > > they > > > > > already are. > > > > > > > > > > Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 18:10 Jim Klimov < > > [email protected]> > > > > ha > > > > > scritto: > > > > > > > > > >> On October 13, 2021 3:55:06 PM UTC, Mario Marietto < > > > > [email protected]> > > > > >> wrote: > > > > >>> Hello to everyone. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> I would like to know if any of you has tried to install open > > indiana > > > in > > > > >>> a > > > > >>> specific partition and not on the whole hard disk. Do you have > some > > > > >>> suggestions ? some tutorial that I can learn how to do that ? > > thanks. > > > > >> > > > > >> It would probably have to be a primary partition (if on MBR) of > type > > > > >> Solaris2, but should be doable. IIRC from live/install media you > can > > > > >> manually create an rpool, and then feed it to installer as a done > > > > thing. It > > > > >> was a while since I saw the installer :) > > > > >> > > > > >> Actually the installer would probably ask about partitioning; the > > > trick > > > > >> above could be more a step to colocate zfs-aware OSes in datasets > of > > > > same > > > > >> rpool. > > > > >> > > > > >> Jim > > > > >> > > > > >> -- > > > > >> Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mario. > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Mario. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
