Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 2. Mar 2021, at 21:32, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > LoL! > > It has become completely nuts. We have MBR, GPT, EFI UEFI and probably some I > don't yet know about. They may or may not be exactly the same depending upon > the persuasions of the OS or progra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
LoL! It has become completely nuts. We have MBR, GPT, EFI UEFI and probably some I don't yet know about. They may or may not be exactly the same depending upon the persuasions of the OS or program. Having wasted a couple of days going down this rabbit hole, I plan to be more cautious. Yeah,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 2. Mar 2021, at 21:08, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: >> In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >>> These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a >>> single FDISK partition. You

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <20210302190828.ga16...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >Sorry. I should not have replied. I've never used GPT disks, Its fun to play with these under OI with VirtualBox or bhyve(5). John groenv...@acm.org ___ openindiana-discuss ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a > >single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command within > >format to see the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-02 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a >single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command within >format to see the slices. You can use the fdisk command within format >to see the FDISK pa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:44:59PM +, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > FWIW I created a series of slices using "format -e" with an EFI > label. No issues encountered, nor did I encounter any issues with > creating pools on them as can be seen from the console output. [...]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Thanks, John, The text installer on the GUI ISO is not the same as what's on the text installer ISO? That's not good. If they are different that should be clearly stated in the text installer opening screen on the GUI ISO. I'll burn a text ISO and give that a whirl to see how it goes. I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <1586327972.1670525.1614620699...@mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsle y via openindiana-discuss writes: >FWIW I created a series of slices using "format -e" with an EFI label. No is >sues encountered, nor did I encounter any issues with creating pools on them a >s can be seen from the c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Judah Richardson
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:45 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > FWIW I created a series of slices using "format -e" with an EFI label. > No issues encountered, nor did I encounter any issues with creating pools > on them as can be seen fr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

2021-03-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
FWIW I created a series of slices using "format -e" with an EFI label. No issues encountered, nor did I encounter any issues with creating pools on them as can be seen from the console output. However, when I run the text installer on the Desktop LiveImage I am not able to select anything exc