On 23/07/10 05:19 AM, Jan Damborsky wrote:
Hi Darren,
could you please provide more information about which installer
you are referring too (I guess you mean opensolaris GUI installer,
but it is not quite clear from your email) and which kind of issues
you run into when you try to install on partition which already
contains opensolaris instance ? In particular, could you please attach
/tmp/install_log file from failed installation ?
Which installer?
I downloaded a copy of the image used for USB devices, wrote that onto
an external USB drive (20G) and booted that, so whichever installer
comes with that.
I no longer have the install log handy, but effectively what happens is
that because "rpool" is there from a prior installation, creation of the
ZFS pool "rpool" fails.
When I walked through all of the partition configuration bits, I just
leave everything "as is". This shouldn't be too hard to reproduce: do a
fresh install of OpenSolaris onto a box and then try to do another fresh
installation over the top of it.
It might be that the installer needs to check to see if a ZFS pool (of
any name) is already present in the target slice/partition for "rpool"
and nuke the first 64k of it with 0's - or at least bug the person doing
the install about it and ask them if they want to destroy the old
filesystem. Actually, this may also be necessary for anyone doing an
install of opensolaris on a box that's had a non-ZFS version of Solaris
on it as zpool also checks for UFS signatures when run and fails without
a -f if present.
Darren
Thank you,
Jan
On 07/21/10 02:07 AM, Darren Reed wrote:
In the "partition" screen of the installer, it would be nice if there
was a
tick box or something to say "nuke the start of the opensolaris
filesystem
so that zpool create works." Well, not exactly that, but if you
install OS
on a disk, it's not possible to reinstall (from scratch) without
doing the
equivalent of "zpool destroy rpool" yourself first.
Darren
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