[OmniOS-discuss] Can't reinstall OmniOS on CF drive

[Kent Watsen]

I tried Kayak, but gave up due to a bit of luck.  I happened to plug my 
CF into another machine and ran the installer again there and...it 
worked!  Identical motherboards and all, the only difference is that 
this other machine only had 4GB of memory installed whereas my main 
machine has 24GB installed.  So, for anyone having trouble with the 
installer, try changing how much memory is installed.

Regarding Kayak, I got stuck trying to a setup a DHCP server.  The 
instructions talk about using the ISC DHCP server, but `pkg search` only 
found SUN's and `dhcpconfigure` threw a Java NullPointerException...

Thanks,
Kent



On 3/29/13 1:14 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Kent Watsen <kent at watsen.net> wrote:
>> I've started to try the Kayak suggestion but have so far failed - the first
>> laptop didn't have enough memory (it had 127MB, no idea what's needed)
> 127MB is almost certainly not enough.
>
>> on the second laptop (a T400), OmniOS couldn't recognize its network
>> interface - not good so a machine that's suppose to act as a server ;)
> Laptops aren't the target platform.  OmniOS is aimed at servers, and
> that means server-class hardware.  Luckily there is often sufficient
> overlap in hardware support that things like desktops and laptops
> generally work, but YMMV.
>
>> The crazy thing is, I have no idea how flexible the Kayak installer is - I
>> read that it has ZFS compression on by default, but what is it going to do
>> for helping me install on this CF?
> Putting aside the fact that CF seems a poor choice for an OS install
> (slow, outdated IDE interface, poor random I/O performance), Kayak
> puts some practical bounds on swap and dump volumes, and just won't
> create them if the rpool is too small.
>
> Nevertheless, I'm curious what Kayak would do with your device.  The
> MakeSwapDump() function
> (http://omnios.omniti.com/file.php/core/kayak/disk_help.sh#l128) is
> where the calculation happens.  Kayak tries to make each of the swap
> and dump volumes equal to 25% of physical memory, with a minimum of
> 1GB.  It then tries to see whether, with at least 2GB of swap/dump
> reservations, there would still be a minimum of 10G free on the rpool
> for the OS install and future updates.  Right there, we fail, and will
> not make either swap or dump volumes on your 8G CF card.  The install
> would proceed without them.
>
> Eric
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