[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Evan Layton]

On May 26, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Bernd Schemmer <Bernd.Schemmer at gmx.de>  
wrote:

> 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.
>

None of our tools really support that type of installation so you'll
Most likely have to do all this completely manually.


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

I haven't tried this yet but it may be possible to do something like  
this using something similar to "beadm create -e  <snapshot> -p <root  
pool> <be name>".

-evan

> >>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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>
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>