Extended Partition Support Requirements and Scope

Extended Partition Support Requirements and Scope

Requirements:   

• Provide the ability to install to  and boot from a logical drive in an extended partition. (x86)
• Provide a user friendly experience for the installation to a logical drive in an extended partition. (x86) 
• Provide the ability to create/select/preserve/delete/resize an extended partition and the logical drives.
• Provide the ability for an interactive installer to create/preserve/delete/resize slices

Scope:  

Phase 1:

• Provide GUI support for creation, discovery, selection, preservation, deletion, and resizing of an extended partition. 
• Provide GUI support for the creation, discovery, selection, preservation, deletion and resizing of the logical disks within the extended partition.
• Provide install library (libtd, libti, liborchestrator) support to enable creation, discovery, selection, preservation, deletion, and resizing for extended partitions and logical disks.
• Install Grub Stage 1 on the MBR if Solaris is to be installed on a logical disk
• Provide libdiskmgt extended partition support.
• Fix bugs TBD
• Modify install test drivers for the above changes

Phase 2:

• Move code that involves slice or partition manipulation that is currently in liborchestrator into libti where it belongs.

Out of Scope:

• Text installer UI changes to handle extended partitions or slice preservation
• Any AI changes that might be required to handle extended partitions