Hello, I will use this thread to report my experiences with Automated Installer, get help and explain my whishes.
My project is, for now, to have sort of xVM appliances based on OpenSolaris 2010.02 (svn_123) with a minimal installation and custom configuration. The test installation is from a Virtualbox instance with Linux as PXE/DHCP/mirror/manifest server. I've written a small python server for serving the manifests. 1/ The install process should not start if "entire" is not in the package list. For me, "entire" was the entire OpenSolaris distribution (with gnome, firefox ...) so I've removed it and the install process was broken at the end. 2/ If there is a wrong package name in ai_install_packages, the AI process stops with the errror "pkg missing". It would be better to give the package name that is missing. 3/ I really don't understand why the web browser's home page is configured via the installer and force us to install the firefox package (bug 5558), there is a simple fix but a clean solution would be to configure the home page in Firefox's post-install scripts. 4/ I don't want to use multicast DNS for service detection, this should be optional. 5/ The most anoying part is the lack of post-install scripts for custom configuration. I will have to set-up an IPS repository, create and publish a PWKpost-install package that will configure the system when installed. Install it at the end of the AI process and then remove the package. It's quite an ugly solution. 6/ I'd love a rescue mode based on AI with an SSH server (already done) I can boot from network to repair a broken installation. More to come later, I still didn't manage to get a working custom install from AI. Regards, Fr?d?ric V. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
