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. > Oh wait... I just realized, we do download the repo.zip and postrun.tar via http. You still need http on the server. I should have mentioned this. I will try to make the changes in the prototype to not use http for these, but it may be a week or so.
thanks, sarah **** > 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.) > > So how do I get past this? > >
