Manual partition

[Robert Lastname]

Does anyone know how to install Nexenta without using up the whole disk?  It does not give me the option to partition manually, so I don't even know where to start.
  If not, is there another way to make room for another OS on the same disk?

[s***@pobox.com]

Robert> Does anyone know how to install Nexenta without using up the
Robert> whole disk?  It does not give me the option to partition
Robert> manually, so I don't even know where to start.

I'm not sure.

Robert> If not, is there another way to make room for another OS on the
Robert> same disk?

I ran it as a guest OS under Sun's VirtualBox. You give the virtual machine
it as much disk as you want and the guest then only has that available.

[Marcus Sundman]

Post by Robert Lastname
Does anyone know how to install Nexenta without using up the whole
disk?  It does not give me the option to partition manually, so I
don't even know where to start.

When I installed Nexenta a while back it did give me some options about
partitioning. However, those weren't enough for me. I don't remember
exactly what I did, but I think that when it asked where to install
Nexenta I switched to another shell (the installer runs in screen IIRC,
so I guess you can get a new shell with Ctrl-A,C or somesuch), then I
created two slices (or "partitions", as they are called elsewhere)
manually and then I returned to the installer and told it to use those
newly created slices in a mirror-raid.

I can't for my life remember the exact commands I ran to do all that,
so I'm afraid I can't provide further details, but I hope this helped
at least a little.


- Marcus