# [OmniOS-discuss] changing rpool zfs properties prior to install

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Mon Mar 25 16:58:02 EDT 2013

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    On 3/25/2013 12:41 PM, Eric Sproul wrote:

    > A network install using Kayak is the best way to get what you want.
    > The ISO installer is the most barely-functional version we could
    > tolerate shipping, because we see network installs being the preferred
    > method of getting bits on disk.
    >
    > Kayak sets compression=on by default for rpool, and can set up a
    > mirror for you, given a suitable list of devices in the client config:
    > http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Installation#Fromthenetwork

    I'm all over network installs for even medium-sized deployments :), but
    for the single box I'm building at the moment at home it's perhaps a
    touch more overhead than one would like ;). I see there's a page on the
    wiki talking about feeding the kayak client from a non-omnios server,
    maybe I'll take a shot at using some of my existing infrastructure at
    home to get that going. You don't happen to have a bloody equivalent to
    http://omnios.omniti.com/media/r151004.zfs.bz2 posted somewhere?

    The other (slightly (meh,  considerably) more kludgy, but perhaps less
    effort required for a one off) option might be to pop into the shell
    after booting the ISO before starting the install and fiddling something
    (replace the zfs binary with a script that the detects rpool creation
    and tweaks it, start a script in the background looking for the rpool to
    show up and tweaking it when it does, …).

    Thanks much for the info.

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