Matt, OK, now I've got the re-revised copy of the disk panel help file. With help from the ZFS writer, this file has been updated to better described the new ZFS file configuration.
Please replace install_disk_panel.txt with the new attached copy of that file. Thanks! Barbara Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > Matt, > Hold off on this change. I have more revisions coming in. > I'll resend when ready. > Barbara > > > Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > >> Matt, >> Sorry, but I made a small but important change in the file. >> Can you put in this revised version? >> Thank you!! >> Barbara >> >> >> Matt Keenan wrote: >> >>> Done.. :) >>> >>> >>> Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Matt, >>>> >>>> Please replace the existing help file for install_disk_panel.txt >>>> with the >>>> new attached file of the same name. >>>> >>>> This new Help file for Slim Installer includes the new minimum >>>> size requirement and includes ZFS default file system setup >>>> information. >>>> >>>> This is a beta draft of this help file. We'll probably have further >>>> edits >>>> to this file as we go forward, but at least this new file covers ZFS. >>>> >>>> Please includes this in the next build of Slim. >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> Barbara >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Disk >> >> >> This panel displays the internal disks, external disks, and >> solid-state drives that are available on the system. This panel also >> displays the size of each disk in gigabytes. This panel enables you >> to choose a disk for the installation. >> Note: In order to be recognized by the installer, the disks and >> solid-state drives must be turned on at the time the computer boots. >> >> Guidelines >> >> * Recommended minimum size for the OpenSolaris OS installation is >> displayed. Disks that are too small for a successful installation are >> labeled as such. >> Recommended size is at least 10 GB. >> * During the installation, the OpenSolaris fdisk partition is >> resliced with a default filesystem layout. For details, see the >> default layout summary at the end of this Help page. >> Procedure >> >> 1. Select a disk. >> >> * For details about a disk, move the cursor over the disk icon. A >> popup window provides disk specifications. >> >> 2. After a disk has been selected, choose one of the following two >> options: >> >> * Install the OpenSolaris OS on the whole disk. >> >> WARNING: This option erases the existing disk. The entire disk is >> overwritten with the new OpenSolaris OS. >> * Install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition on the selected disk. For >> this option, one existing Solaris partition must be available as the >> target for the installation. >> >> Note the following partitioning guidelines: >> >> *Only one Solaris or OpenSolaris partition is allowed. You can change >> an existing Solaris partition to another partition type. >> >> * Only x86 based systems can be partitioned. >> * Manual control of OpenSolaris partitioning and of file system >> layout is not supported. >> >> 3. If you choose to install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition, you >> can resize existing partitions, delete partitions, and create new >> partitions in this panel. >> Note the following guidelines: >> >> * This panel displays the existing disk partitioning. >> WARNING: If the existing partition table cannot be read, a warning is >> displayed, and the panel displays proposed partitioning. In this >> case, all data on the disk is destroyed. >> >> * The partitions are displayed in physically sequential order as they >> are laid out on the disk. >> WARNING: Resizing a partition destroys the data on that partition and >> all physically subsequent partitions. Existing data is not moved to >> conform to a new partition layout. However, resizing the last >> partition or adding a new partition does not affect the data that >> already exists in other partitions. >> >> * The Unallocated Available Space field tracks any disk space that >> has not been allocated to a specific partition. You can Type "=" into >> any partition size, in order to alter its size so that remaining >> unallocated space is zero. >> >> Default Filesystem Layout >> >> The ???Project Indiana??? Milestone 1 release installation assigns >> the entire OpenSolaris fdisk partition to a ZFS pool. This pool is >> setup as a mirrored pool. The ZFS pool includes datasets for a /usr >> file system, the /opt file system, the /export file system, and >> others. Swap is located be on zvol. A second disk is required for >> redundancy. The following example illustrates the resulting file >> system setup. >> >> <indiana-build> zpool status pool: mypool >> state: ONLINE >> scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Wed Sep 26 23:41:40 2007 >> config: >> >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> mypool ONLINE 0 0 0 >> mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c3t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> errors: No known data errors >> >> Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on >> mypool/BE1 134G 16G 83G 17% / >> /devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices >> /dev 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev >> ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract >> proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc >> mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab >> swap 496M 888K 495M 1% /etc/svc/volatile >> objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object >> sharefs 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab >> mypool/BE1/usr 134G 3.4G 83G 4% /usr >> /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1 >> >> 87G 3.4G 83G 4% /lib/libc.so.1 >> fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd >> >> mypool/BE1/var 134G 1.3G 83G 2% /var >> swap 522M 27M 495M 6% /tmp >> swap 495M 40K 495M 1% /var/run >> mypool/BE1/opt 134G 1.4G 83G 2% /opt >> mypool/BE1/export 134G 1.5G 83G 2% /export >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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