Hi Ben,
Ben Wu wrote: > Dear all, > > I tried to use Automated Installer to install snv_124 build for SPARC on > a customer's Sun SPARC workstation. The installation procedure seems to > complete successfully (after numerous hours of downloading pkgs from > pkg.opensolaris.org IPS), but after rebooting the machine, the machine > rebooted itself continuously. I haven't had chance to look at boot > message before it rebooted itself, but I guess it's the issue of this > development build. I think I forgot to change the IPS server to > "pkg.opensolaris.org/dev" and may this be the main issue of the failed > install? yes - you would need to change the AI manifest to point to 'dev' IPS repository instead of 'release' one. The current rule of thumb is that AI image build (124 in your case) and build to be installed should match. You would need to modify AI manifest appropriately to assure this - append build to be installed to 'entire' package as described in AI manifest: ... <pkg name="entire at 0.5.11-0.124"/> ... > > Has anyone ever successfully installed OSOL SPARC using AI? And which > build did you use? Any gotchas need to be aware of? Yes, it works pretty well. However, when you try for the first time, I might recommend to start with release build (2009.06 is the latest one) which is stable and very well tested. When using development builds, you might run into issues from time to time. Also, you would avoid the problem described above. Please see following documentation for more details: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/faq.html#match Best regards, Jan
