Dan McDonald writes: > > - I like the "straight install to pool" option. I have had this in my > > Kayak net installer for a long time but never sent the pull request. > > You can only install it on a PRE-CONFIGURED rpool. The idea is you enter > shell first, create your pool, exit the shell, and then use option 2. It's > for people like me who dual-purpose SSDs for rpool, slog, and leave > unallocated room for load-balancing.
Yes, that's exactly how I do it, except that I have hacked my Kayak PXE-based installation environment to accept a new option. :-) > > - The keyboard selection did not work; I selected 18 for German but > > still got US. This may well be due to VBox interfering; I usually > > don't use the console of my VMs but just ssh in. > > Did that ever work on the Caiman installer? If it does, I may need more > fixes in the build_iso.sh script I have. TBH I have never tried it, but am willing to do so on a real-metal install RSN. > > - The disk selection screen had some lines with more than 80 columns, > > causing line wrap. So it all looked a bit ragged. Worked fine, > > though -- installed on a single 20GB VDI disk. > > It's SUPPOSED TO be > 80 columns and ragged. It's one reason you only get 7 > disks at a time on a screen. Ah OK. Some Linuxes switch their console into a different video mode giving more than 80x25 -- maybe that is an option. > > - After installation, I wanted to stop the VM so I could remove the > > boot DVD from the config. So I told VBox to "send the shutdown > > signal". This caused a message of "/usr/sbin/shutdown not found". > > Maybe you want to put that binary on the miniroot. :-) > > I've had to bloat the original kayak miniroot a lot already. You could use > "init 0". I could also include the hard-linked aliases to reboot: > "poweroff" and "halt". I think that would be easier. To that end, I think > I'll include poweroff and halt. I guess I did not state my point properly. I do know several ways to gracefully stop a machine. :-) My point was: If someone for some reason somehow generates the "shutdown" signal, there will be an ugly error message. You would need to include "/usr/sbin/shutdown" in the miniroot, or fix the "powerfail" line in /etc/inittab. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss