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. > > 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 is due to defect 1771 (http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1771). The auto installer prototype uses the same libraries of OpenSolaris 05.08 version. If you destroy the pool 'rpool' and reboot, the installation will not fail to create ZFS filesystems.
- Sundar > (This did have 2008.05 on it before, but I would expect that to be a > common case - you often reinstall a machine.) > > So how do I get past this? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20080604/872d4bc3/attachment.html>
