[indiana-discuss] Installation options for an Ultra-60

[Andrew Gaylard]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:21 PM, mary ding <mary.ding at sun.com> wrote:
> Andrew:
>
>
> Andrew Gaylard wrote:
>> That raises a question: could I download the DVD of the latest SXCE,
>> export it via NFS, and use the installer from the SXCE-98 series to
>> install it?
>>
>
> You should not use SXCE-98 to install later builds, it is not supported.
>
> You should download the latest SXCE DVD and use the installer from there
> directly.

OK, but... I don't have a DVD drive .

>> Another question: it appears that SXCE-98 doesn't offer ZFS-root.
>> Certainly the installer just went with UFS without asking.  If I want
>> to give this a spin, which build has it?
>>
>
> ZFS-root option is only available if you do text install.
>
> ok boot net - text

Thanks for this -- I just found it the ZFS docs.  My box is now happily
re-installing.

Interestingly, although the initial installation is done in "text mode"
(actually the curses-based installer runs inside a dtterm under X),
after the reboot, the installation process resumes as the graphical
version.  I don't know if this is normal behaviour, but it did at least
work for me.  If I'd genuinely *needed* the text installer to resume
(e.g. over a serial link), I'm not sure if it would have been OK.

Anyway, thanks for the input, Mary.
Andrew