[indiana-discuss] installing to a 4gb SD card ?

[Tim Foster]

Hi Dave,

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 10:17 -0500, Dave Miner wrote:
> Tim Foster wrote:
> > Is there any way I can persuade the installer to override it's
> > disk-space checks and have a go at installing to this disk regardless?
> 
> Not unless you can get the system to lie about the size of the device, 

Hmm perhaps not!

>  has to be at least 4096 KB as that's the hard-coded check in the 
> installer at the moment.

Cool - allowing the min size to be pulled from configuration file or
somesuch, rather than hardcoding it would be excellent (I'll happily log
a bug?)

> As a workaround you might try just doing zfs send/recv from your 
> external USB disk to the SD card

Okay I'll give that a go. I was running into some weirdness with the
zpool hostid when importing/exporting rpool when running from the
livecd, the next time I tried to boot from that pool, we panicked on
mountroot :-/  I'll go the long way around (reinstall to the large usb
disk, boot from it then send/recv that to the sd card)

>  (bonus is that you can make the card 
> data sets fully compressed, too)

Yep.

> You'd probably have to do some 
> hacking to get it initialized correctly, but I figure that's the kind of 
> fun you'll enjoy ;-)

Thanks, (I think!)

I'm hoping to be able to have this system at the OpenSolaris table at
FOSDEM next week - worst case, it'll boot from a USB disk - not the end
of the world.

	cheers,
			tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf