Steffen Weiberle wrote: > 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. >
The interactive installer doesn't have this capability yet, but will. AI has some capabilities, as you observe, to preserve slices; you have to use a slice number for it in the current implementation. Dave > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
