The Debian derived gparted disk did not offer any zfs FS types. Out of curiosity I just booted FreeBSD 12.2 and messed with gpart. It does not offer "apple-zfs as an option. Aside from ZFS not being an Apple creation, it's rather perverse that in 2021 one would need to use the beta from another OS to partition a >2TB disk for OI.
>From my admin log book: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-26-13 oi_151a7 text installer limited system to 2 TB of 3 TB disk backed up to shell and ran format which correctly detected disk successfully labeled disk with 2 slices of 128 GB and 2.6 GB created pools w/ zpool on both slices relabeling 3 TB disk using OI format(1m) runs into logic errors in the partition. solution is to do a "free hug" modify & take defaults for all slices, then rename s0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From there I moved the disk to my Solaris 10 u8 system which happily created >the pools. I was also building an NL40 based system at the time and the log >book gets a bit unclear. The s0 & s1 slices are the hallmark of my ZFS boot >setup. Mirror on s0 and RAIDZ on s1. I don't think the Sol 10 instance has the >128 GB s0 slice now. As I'm pretty sure it will kernel panic if I run "format >-e" and select the disk I'd rather not look. The message here is OI was capable of doing the geometry for a >2 TB disk at oi_151_a7. So for Hipster 2020.10 to not be able to do that is a considerable regression. Reg On Sunday, February 28, 2021, 09:00:17 PM CST, John D Groenveld <groenv...@acm.org> wrote: In message <845919546.1414404.1614561339...@mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: >Following hints from others, I used a *working* copy of gparted to put a GPT l >abel on a 5 TB disk in advance of attempting to install OI. I booted the FreeBSD 13 Beta installer: <URL:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/> With gpart(8), I created a GPT scheme and then added an apple-zfs partition. Then I created an zpool named rpool with features disabled and exported it. # zpool create -d rpool ada0p1 # zpool export rpool Using the OI text installer I was able to F5 to install to an existing pool. <URL:http://dlc.openindiana.org/> >I took photos of the screen should anyone question this As Josh Clulow noted, the OI text installer keeps a logfile in /tmp which would be helpful if you're interested in providing a bug report. John groenv...@acm.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss