zfs discuss - Sep 2008 - [install-discuss] Will OpenSolaris and Nevada co-exist in peace on the same root zpool

Well, I want to give OpenSolaris a try, but have not yet worked up the
confidence to just try it.  So a few questions:

When I start the OpenSolaris installer, will it install into my existing
root zpool?
Which is called RPOOL. not rpool?
Without destroying my existing Nevada installations?
Or killing my existing Grub menu?
And will it be intelligent about my existing Live Upgrade BEs?
And other existing Shareable ZFS datasets (eg /export and /var/shared)

Related to this:
Can I have the same directory used for my home directory under both Nevada
and OpenSolaris?

I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions
of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well
these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer
version of itself.

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Johan Hartzenberg writes:
> I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in versions
> of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how well
> these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer
> version of itself.
The answers to your questions are basically all "no."  The new
installer wants a primary partition or a whole disk.

However, there are helpful blogs from folks who''ve made the
transition.  Poor Ed seems to have a broken ''shift'' key, but
he gives
great details here:

  http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live

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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at
sun.com>wrote:
> Johan Hartzenberg writes:
> > I am guessing the answer is YMMV depending on the differences in
versions
> > of, for example Firefox, Gnome, Thunderbird, etc, and based on how
well
> > these cope with settings that was changed by another potentially newer
> > version of itself.
>
> The answers to your questions are basically all "no."  The new
> installer wants a primary partition or a whole disk.
>
> However, there are helpful blogs from folks who''ve made the
> transition.  Poor Ed seems to have a broken ''shift'' key,
but he gives
> great details here:
>
>  http://blogs.sun.com/edp/entry/moving_from_nevada_and_live
>
> Hi James.
Thank you for the response.  I am going to try it the other way around then
- Install machine with OpenSolaris, then install NV into the pool as an
alternate boot environment.  I have a spare hard drive which I can use as a
sandpit environment.  Now I just need that other little thing called
"time"
to experiment.



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