Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-03-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Toomas, Thank you. That was quite helpful. "format -e" does indeed work in the live desktop environment once one does a sudo /bin/su. At the time I got the SEGV on 2017.10 I was primarily focused on recovering my Solaris 10 u8 instance. As I had successfully scrubbed the 3 pools in single

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-03-01 Thread cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 1, 2021 10:06 PM, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message 971533125.1431110.1614570927...@mail.yahoo.com, Reginald Beardsley > via openindiana-discuss writes: > > > Out of curiosity I just booted FreeBSD 12.2 and messed with gpart. > > It does not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-03-01 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <971533125.1431110.1614570927...@mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss writes: >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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-02-28 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 1. Mar 2021, at 05:55, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-02-28 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-02-28 Thread John D Groenveld
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:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-02-28 Thread Judah Richardson
About to eat so firing this reply off quickly: OI has an oddity in which the live USB supports GPT and UEFI boot (on the USB media itself) but the actual OS installation and boot is entirely legacy (MBR, at least by default). Yes, I know that doesn't make sense. There's some *semantic* (read:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

2021-02-28 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
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