[indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

[Kevin Monceaux]

James, and other Indiana Fans,

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, James Cornell wrote:

> Hi Kevin.  There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely 
> remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a 
> bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, 
> using 99% of the rest of the space on the pool.  Maybe someone here 
> knows what I'm, talking about and can point you in the right direction 
> regarding this option, though keep in mind this is not for Indiana. SXCE 
> has zfs root support, and is still a better option IMHO for most 
> purposes, at least until they respin Indiana and make the installer less 
> dorky with regards to partitioning.  With SXCE you can use the old 
> installer and configure a lot more.

I suspect much of my difficulties in setting things up the way I want them 
is due to the inflexibility of the Indiana installer.  I should probably 
mention that I don't hold this against the Indiana team at all.  Indiana 
is a work in progress, and hopefully anyone trying to use it in it's 
current state realizes that.  While on the subject of installers, can I 
throw in my $0.02?  I know, I'm old fashioned, but I personally prefer 
text based installers such as those used by Debian, FreeBSD, etc.  Well, 
actually, I prefer programs with text based user interfaces in general. 
I'm typing this e-mail in Alpine.  Of course, many of my personal 
preferences might make people think I'm a bit odd.  I work as an IBM 
mainframe operator, in a z/OS shop, and although there are only a few left 
here in the computer room I'm still quite fond of 3179 dumb terminals.  I 
especially like their keyboards.  At home I'm still using an IBM model M 
keyboard I got back in the 486 days.  Add to that the fact that almost 
every vehicle I've ever owned has had a standard transmission, I shave 
with a straight razor, and have twelve dogs and things just keep getting 
odder and odder.  :-)

Okay, sorry for veering so far off topic.  I've been searching the net, 
unsuccessfully so far, trying to find the article you mentioned.  It 
sounds like SXCE might be worth a try until Indiana's installer gains more 
features.  If anyone could point me towards the article in question I'd 
appreciate it.



Kevin
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