Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I needed to put together a system running OpenSolaris build 108 for > Niveditha, but hit the corruption issue (6804), so I decided to > install 106 and update to 108. > > I've finally successfully installed build 106 on SPARC from the /dev > repo (currently at 108). > > After taking Sundar's help with DHCP issues, I got the install to start. > (Thanks, Sundar!) At this point, AI installs were failing with: > Transfer mod: pkg missing > Then I tried installing the four packages or incorporations (with > version strings attached) manually. It bombed on entire, which I did > last. > > Dave Comay is da' repo man! He dished up the secret sauce to get me > working. I'm publicizing this in case anyone else needs to install a > non-latest version from a repo. > > Package order is important. In /var/ai/4*/AI_data/default.xml on the > server, I have packages in the following order: > entire at 0.5.11-0.<build> > SUNWcsd > SUNWcs > slim_install at 0.1-0.<build> > > The SUNW... packages don't specify a version, because "entire" > contains metadata which sets that up for them. slim_install is last. > Dave says he'll be working on being able to remove the versioning from > the slim_install package specification here soon. > > --- > > Next, I needed to update to 108. In doing pkg image-update, I > encountered bug 5221, a beadm issue which has been fixed (but was not > in 106). A blank /rpool/boot/menu.lst file was created and the > image-update worked. Thanks to Evan Layton for his help! > Ok, I am confused. How is /rpool/boot/menu.lst (which is specific to GRUB) an issue for sparc boots.
-Sanjay > The system is now running OpenSolaris 108 and I have turned it over to > Niveditha! > > Thanks, > Jack > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
