[indiana-discuss] Create empty boot environment

[Evan Layton]

Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >>I'm not sure I understand what problem is being solved by attempting 
> to install multiple OS's in the same pool.
> 
> Some points:
> 
> The OpenSolaris installation program does not support creating more than 
> one slice on disk -- so if you have only one disk you only have on pool.
> 
> So if you want to install more distributions on a machine with only one 
> disk (for testing for example) they all have to  be installed in the 
> same pool

Ah OK I see what the problem is now and I understand why you are trying to do
it. The current bits don't support this but like Dave mentioned there are RFE's
for doing this kind of installation. There is not an existing RFE for adding 
this functionality to beadm so as you mentioned filing one is a good idea..

Thank you for the clarification!

-evan

> 
> regards
> 
> Bern
> 
> 
> Evan Layton wrote:
>>
>>
>> On May 26, 2009, at 11:59 PM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar at fajar.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Evan Layton <Evan.Layton at sun.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> That doesn't mean you can't fake one up outside of beadm as 
>>>> suggested below
>>>> however that's not a supported method for creating BE's. Plus the 
>>>> ability to
>>>> do this will probably be impacted going forwad as more BE validation is
>>>> added to beadm. We will likely not support BE's created outside 
>>>> beadm once
>>>> that validation work is complete. (see bug 891)
>>>
>>> I see. So what is the recommended method of using the same zpool for
>>> multiple OS?
>>> Is it by creating a BE using beadm and overwriting its content? Or is
>>> this completely unsupported, and we should have one pool for each OS?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Fajar
>>
>> I don't know of any support for installing multiple OS's in the same 
>> pool.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what problem is being solved by attempting 
>> to install multiple OS's in the same pool.
>>
>> -evan
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