Thank you for the confirmation. I have submitted doc bug 8884 to track this 
problem in the docs.

Sue

On 05/13/09 00:07, Prakash Nanjundan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The actual problem was due to unnecessary "backslash" in the command 
> line given for SPARC install service under below procedure link.
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/advancedsetup.html
> 
> # installadm create-service -n /0906sparc/ \ -s 
> //export/aiimages/osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso/ 
> //export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc/
> 
> Without "\" installadm works fine & service started successfully.
> 
> Thanks,
> Prakash
> 
> On 05/08/09 21:08, Susan Sohn wrote:
>> On 05/08/09 07:34, Evan Layton wrote:
>>> Avinash K wrote:
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>> But previous time it had 2008.11 installed on it and the 
>>>>>> installadm was working fine. Then also it had same IP and other 
>>>>>> configurations. So are you suggesting that I need to wait till the 
>>>>>> build with the necessary fix is released?
>>>>>> Is there no workaround for the same? Will disabling nwam cause any 
>>>>>> issues or solve the problem?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Avinash K
>>>>>
>>>>> installadm has always required a static IP address and did not work 
>>>>> correctly with nwam until the fix for 8346. You will either need to 
>>>>> setup a static IP address for the server or wait for the fix for 
>>>>> 8346 to be available. To use a static IP address you will need to 
>>>>> disable nwam and manually set up a static IP address.
>>>>>
>>>>> -evan
>>>> Hi Evan/Sean,
>>>>
>>>> Just check the below logs, I have disabled nwam and configured 
>>>> static IP. But now the error is different, it says '*Unable to 
>>>> determine OpenSolaris install image type*.'.
>>>> So is it problem with the downloaded image or some problem with IP 
>>>> configuration or anything other issue?
>>>
>>> The problem this time is the failure to determine the image type 
>>> which caused it to fail to create the service. Because of this 
>>> failure you still have no services configured so the SMF service 
>>> svc:/system/install/server:default will still be in maintenance mode. 
>>> You can try downloading the image again but I'm thinking something 
>>> else may be wrong here.
>>>
>>> Sundar, do you have any ideas on why it may be failing to determine 
>>> the image type?
>>>
>>> -evan
>>
>> What are the contents of the 
>> /export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc/platform directory?
>>
>> Sue
>>
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# svcs svc:/network/physical
>>>> STATE          STIME    FMRI
>>>> disabled       17:10:37 svc:/network/physical:nwam
>>>> online         17:10:39 svc:/network/physical:default
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# ifconfig -a
>>>> lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> 
>>>> mtu 8232 index 1
>>>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
>>>> bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 
>>>> index 2
>>>>         inet 10.12.176.49 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.12.176.255
>>>>         ether 0:9:3d:13:9f:d9
>>>> lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> 
>>>> mtu 8252 index 1
>>>>         inet6 ::1/128
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# svcs -x
>>>> svc:/system/install/server:default (Installadm Utility)
>>>>  State: maintenance since Fri May 08 17:21:18 2009
>>>> Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
>>>>    See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
>>>>    See: installadm(1M)
>>>>    See: /var/svc/log/system-install-server:default.log
>>>> Impact: This service is not running.
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~#
>>>> root at blr-v20z-1:~# installadm create-service -n sparc1 \ -s 
>>>> /root/Desktop/osol-0906-111a-ai-sparc.iso 
>>>> /export/aiserver/osol-0906-ai-sparc
>>>> Unable to determine OpenSolaris install image type.
>>>> The installadm SMF service (svc:/system/install/server:default) is 
>>>> no longer online
>>>> because the last install service has been disabled or deleted.
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> caiman-discuss mailing list
>>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
>>
> 


Reply via email to