The primary reason I still run Nevada is that I can preserve other OS
installs on the system.
I have looked at some of the design and functional docs, and the only
thing that I could find that even comes close is "AI Design 1.1 (Delta)"
(and I can't figure out where I found it). It mentions the option to
preserve slices, although I don't see a facility to name the slices (as
I can do now manually with the legacy installer.)
Will the installer and AI allow me to preserve existing UFS (and maybe
ZFS) slices so that I can easily switch between installed OS instances?
The example below is SPARC, although I am hoping for the same on x86.
Steffen
(original email I had composed)
I frequently bounce back and forth between different updates and versions.
I question whether beadm and a single ZFS pool will be sufficient for me
in the future, as I may have b116 installed, then go back to S10 8/07
and do something, then add a zone in 5/09, maybe then do something in
111b, then something else in 5/09 again. All by just rebooting, not
having to re-install. This includes creating or destroying zones, which
can be the riskiest part of reverting to different BEs.
Oh, and interactive console (read xLOM--serial or telnet/ssh in the LOM)
install on SPARC so I can manually configure, since my AI skills are
worse than my jumpstart skills, and I do want to keep the other OSes
installed around :)
pinebarren# df -k |grep dsk |sort
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 8072501 7708019 283757 97% /snv116-090612
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 8072501 7380770 611006 93% /s10-1008-081208
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4 8072501 4849117 3142659 61% /s10-508-080714
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 8072501 7233674 758102 91% /
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 5166102 1784207 3330234 35% /export/data
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 8072501 6679511 1312265 84% /snv104-090203
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s3 8072501 5679176 2312600 72% /s10-807-081014
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4 8072333 1531017 6460593 20% /s9-905
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5 8072501 3540662 4451114 45% /s10-1106-090303
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 5166102 1467601 3646840 29% /export/data2
pinebarren# head -1 /etc/release
Solaris Express Community Edition snv_113 SPARC
Oh, I forgot I has Solaris 9 on here as well. So I could test Solaris 9
Container installation.
