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Finding More Help on Manual Partitioning

The "Getting Started" .PDF ( http://opensolaris.org/os/project/starterkit/install_docs/Nexenta_install.pdf ), on page 7, has this paragraph:

Manual installation remains an option; for the exact steps please refer to _Getting_Started_pages_for_Alpha_1_ (the relevant description starts at Step #3).

That paragraph in the .PDF document provides a very broken URL file:///gswiki/Getting_started-alpha1 (link on page 7) that was likely supposed to read http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_started-alpha1, but the old site redirects to the main page of the new site http://www.nexenta.org/os/. :o

Attempting to fix the URL by hand led to this page http://www.nexenta.org/os/Getting_started-alpha1 which was empty prior to my attempt to fix it ... |-)

This formerly blank page suggested a number of URLs that one might try (most were irrelevant), the most relevant one is here: http://www.nexenta.org/os/Getting_Started , but that page does not provide info on the "Manual Partitioning" of your HD (from the Alpha1 docs) as promised in the "Getting Started" manual ... X-(

(!) The only way to get the old page is to try the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070206174916/http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/
http://web.archive.org/web/20070120180055/www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started-alpha1

There is also a tiny bit of info here (section #3): http://web.archive.org/web/20060208023007/www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started

The Way-Back page lists three different dates for this page here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/

A new URL for partitioning a Solaris drive is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ , also helpful is the "ZFS Best Practices Guide" http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide or the "The ZFS Boot Project" page at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/ in the event that you desire to partition your drive manually instead of allowing the Installer to do it.