[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Bernd Schemmer]

Hi,

 >>What's the actual problem you are trying to solve? Where are you
 >>planning to get the bits from that you plan to put in that empty
 >>boot environment?

Installing other distributions in parallel to OpenSolaris in the same 
pool, e.g. Milax. Belenix, etc.

Also I would like this feature to reinstall for example a snapshot of 
the rootfs which I saved on another medium.

 >>Short answer: Right now there is no interface in beadm to allow
 >>creating an empty boot environment.

OK, then I'll create an RFE for that feature.


regards

Bernd


Evan Layton wrote:
> What's the actual problem you are trying to solve? Where are you
> planning to get the bits from that you plan to put in that empty
> boot environment?
>
> If you are just attempting to create a BE on a different pool
> based on an existing BE you can use the "beadm create -p" option
> to create that new BE on a different pool. This uses zfs
> send/receive under the covers to copy the BE from one pool to
> another.
>
> Short answer: Right now there is no interface in beadm to allow
> creating an empty boot environment.
>
> -evan
>
> Bernd Schemmer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with lucreate in Solaris I can create an empty boot environment and 
>> use a flashimage to install that boot environment. Can I do something 
>> similar with beadm in OpenSolaris?
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> create an empty boot environment and use zfs send/receive to populate 
>> that boot environment
>>
>> Or can this be done manually (if yes, how?)?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>>
>


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