On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Jan Damborsky <Jan.Damborsky at sun.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > Jan, Just to clarify, 2009.06 is release repos (b111), but from what I understand the /dev repo is needed on sparc, no? -- Cheers, Steven ----------------------- Steven Acres Toronto OpenSolaris User Group <TOROSUG> Leader http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20091102/20c813df/attachment.html>
