[geeks] E450 - continuing Solaris install saga

[Cory Smelosky]

On 16 Apr 2013, at 01:42, "microcode" <microcode at zoho.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 01:33:48PM -0500, JP Hindin wrote:
> 
>> I foolishly assumed that Solaris 10 was not, in fact, still stuck in 1979
>> and the installer could format/partition/label a disk as it went.
> 
> That happens to me a lot too since I often install Solaris over Linux,
> Windows etc. It's annoying. But I guess it's better than blindly pretending
> the World Belongs 2 US and just trampling whatever's on the drive a la
> Windows. The messages could be better though! It's a good idea to dd drives
> that will be used for ZFS if they were ever in service before. Zero the
> first and last few megs to be safe.

Even 4.3BSD can label a disk as it went!

Mind, it has no actual installer...

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