Hi Peter, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Fellow Caimaniacs(aka 'Slimmers'), >> >> There is a new, and improved AI(automated installer) prototype image >> available. Only 512M memory required! >> > > Yay! My test machine has 512M. Off we go... > > (Mind you, it couldn't install from the CD, as aome may recall.) > > >> I have just posted a new AI prototype. This one requires only 512M of >> memory, >> and utilizes NFS for the remote archives it needs to mount. >> > > NFS would be hugely preferred, by and large, although it > ought to be protocol agnostic. > > The first error I got, which didn't seem to be fatal, is that it couldn't > access repo.zip via http. Given that it's supposed to be using NFS, > I didn't bother with the apache setup. > > That's not a good sign. It isn't supposed to be using http, so something else is going on. I have to ask this, you sure you used the nfs image? http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/ai_prototype/indiana_nfs.cpio.gz
> However, it's now stuck in a loop: > > Running Auto Installer > Diskname c8d0 is valid > diskname set = c8d0 > Set fdisk attrs > Boot pool rpool already exists, we can't proceed with the installation > Error: cannot create ZFS filesystem on disk > > (This did have 2008.05 on it before, but I would expect that to be a > common case - you often reinstall a machine.) > Well.. this is due to the failure. We don't handle the SMF error very well and it keeps retrying so to get out of the loop you have to reboot. remember, it is a prototype and has a few issues :-). sarah **** > So how do I get past this? > >
