Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-05-03 Thread Carl Brewer
On 2/05/2015 10:02 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 1/05/2015 3:08 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Try using text installer. Last text installer images will install OI on EFI-labeled disks if whole disk install is selected so if I boot off the OI 201503 GUI ISO, but in text mode, I'll be able to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-05-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/05/2015 3:08 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Try using text installer. Last text installer images will install OI on EFI-labeled disks if whole disk install is selected so if I boot off the OI 201503 GUI ISO, but in text mode, I'll be able to do this? Is there a howto or guide anywhere?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Carl Brewer писал 01.05.2015 02:58: On 1/05/2015 9:51 AM, jason matthews wrote: IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of addressable space. Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks using EFI. So it can't be done? Maybe I can

[OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything. I have a new box I'm building, with 2 x 4TB WD Red HDD's to run as a 4TB mirrored rpool. I plan to build a very basic ZFS rpool box, that will be an rsync destination for a bunch of other servers at a client site - one big rpool is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/05/2015 9:51 AM, jason matthews wrote: IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of addressable space. Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks using EFI. So it can't be done? Maybe I can partition the drives into a boot and a big