Am 14.07.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 7/13/15 23:53 , Dirk Steinberg wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointer - I might try this.
>> But I would actually like to run full SDC/Triton.
>> 
>> I suspect that the SDC installer does just I want to do:
>> unpack a bunch of zone images (zfs send/recv format)
>> and do some minor config tweaks to the base SmartOS.
>> 
>> Maybe someone knows how this works and how I can reproduce
>> this without actually running the installer from the USB/ISO boot
>> image. Or — maybe I can actually extract the installer script
>> from the boot image and run it on an existing SmartOS.
>> But I would still need some pointers.
> 
> The SDC headnode is designed around having that USB key there to boot
> from. It's not sufficient to just try and replicate it, there are other
> things which are stored persistently back to that USB key. I would not
> recommend trying to manually work around this, as you'll quickly end up
> having to fight against quite a lot of SDC.

Robert,

on SmartOS the „USB key“ is not really the USB key, but
a ZFS filesystem.

[root@ivy ~]# df -h /usbkey/
Filesystem             Size   Used  Available Capacity  Mounted on
zones/usbkey           5.5T    12M       1.7T     1%    /usbkey

Is that different in SDC? 

Or, said another way, is „4gb.img“ in CoaL R/W instead of R/O?
(Don’t have CoaL in front of me ATM)

Thanks.

Dirk

> There are a few options here. Given that you don't have a console, what
> you can do is go and fill out answers.json entirely on the USB key and
> then wipe and reboot. Test the answers.json in coal first, but if filled
> out completely, there will be no manual prompting and the installation
> will be automated.
> 
> If you don't have a usbkey available, the other thing that you can do is
> to sacrifice a physical disk to be a giant USB key. It's not great, but
> it may work for you.

I only have one physical disk, I may try to partition it.

> Robert




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