Following hints from others, I used a *working* copy of gparted to put a GPT label on a 5 TB disk in advance of attempting to install OI.
I took photos of the screen should anyone question this, but I don't see a reason to post them lest they cost someone on a measured connection. After the OI fail, I booted gparted and took a picture of what it reported to verify that it was what I had done. The simple fact of the matter is both the text and the GUI install completely ignore the GPT label on the disk. I created a 2 GB partition, a 100 GB partition and allocated the rest of the disk to a 3rd partition. I then booted the OI disk which ignored the partitioning and refused to use more than 2 TB. This is simply a failure to actually test the image before release. Relative to creating a distribution ISO image, testing it is vanishingly little work. I do not know and do not care whose neck this albatross should be hung around. But I firmly hope that those who do know remove this person from the role. This does more damage to OI than can be described. I have multiple Z400s and an Ultra 20 as well as several functional older machines. I shall be more than happy to test an install image before it is put up for general use. I was, and still am willing to work on OI. But the lack of anything resembling cooperation makes that rather difficult. The computer is the final arbiter. If OI fails on a system Sun certified for Solaris 10 there is a very serious QC issue. You can't blame this on the difficulties posed by "arbitrary hardware". Reg _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
