Slim gang, Since the online help will be translated, I'm trying to
finish edits to the online help ASAP.
The most important changes are in the Disk Online Help file, per below.
Can you review ASAP?
Sanjay and Dave, can you ask specific people to be sure to review this
on Monday?
Thanks!
Barbara
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,
or partition on 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.
* Manual control of the OpenSolaris file system layout is not
supported. During the installation, the Solaris fdisk partition is
reformatted with a default ZFS file system layout. All existing file
systems on the Solaris partition are destroyed. For details, see the
Default ZFS Filesystem Layout section below.
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:
Option 1: 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.
Option 2: Install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition on the selected
disk. If you select this option, the 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.
3. Optional: If you choose to install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition,
you can resize existing Solaris partitions, delete partitions, and
create new partitions in this panel. For this option, one existing
Solaris partition must be available as the target of the installation.
If you choose to install the OpenSolaris OS on a partition, note the
following guidelines:
* Only one Solaris partition is allowed. If an existing Solaris
partition is available, that Solaris partition will be the target for
the installation. Or, if you do not have an existing Solaris partition,
you can change any existing partition to a Solaris partition.
* Only x86 based systems can be partitioned.
WARNING: The partitions are displayed in physically sequential order
as they are laid out on the disk. Resizing a Solaris 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 appending a new partition does
not affect the data that already exists in other partitions. Non-Solaris
partitions cannot be resized.
WARNING: To make additional space available, you can change an
existing partition to Unused. However, if you change an existing
partition to Unused, all subsequent non-Solaris partitions are also
changed to Unused.
Default ZFS Filesystem Layout
The Slim installation uses a previously-created Solaris fdisk partition
to create a ZFS storage pool. The ZFS pool includes an /usr file system,
an /opt file system, an /export file system, and others. Swap is located
on a ZFS volume (zvol) in the storage pool.
If a second disk is available, you can, after the installation, add a
second disk to the ZFS pool to create a mirrored configuration. To
create a mirrored configuration, use the ZFS attach command to add a
second disk to the storage pool. For example:
# zpool attach tank c0t2d0s0 c0t4d0
The following example illustrates a ZFS file system with a non-redundant
configuration:
<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
>> ONLINE 0 0 0
>> c3t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
>>
>> errors: No known data errors
