Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote:
>
>>>> There's an assumption here that a "bootable AI iso"
>>>> will be a separate entity from the current AI iso.
>>>> Is there any reason that the current AI iso can't
>>>> be made bootable with the end result being that we
>>>> have a single AI image?
>> The bootable AI image could be the same as the "regular" AI image, it
>> all depends on
>> how we code it. Right now, the GRUB menu for an AI image is
>> re-created during
>> installadm time anyway. The one from the image is not used.
>> So, it is not hard to make the grub menu
>> entries that will help VMC to boot right, and still use the same
>> image for both
>> bootable AI and "regular" AI.
>
> Okay, that sounds reasonable.
>
>>> Yes. The assumption for a bootable AI was that it would install a
>>> liveCD set of packages (as the VMC project needed a self-contained
>>> AI, that didn't access IPS). So the bootable AI would be, in my
>>> assumption, based off the liveCD (in terms of installed packages).
>> I don't think that's a valid assumption. The VMC project will be
>> using the bootable AI image
>> to install whatever it is specified in the AI manifest from IPS.
>
> I agree, although I think the VMC func spec needs to call
> that out more clearly.
>
> Currently sections 1.4.1 and 1.5 of the spec seem to imply
> that an IPS based installation is the mode of operation
> from within the bootable AI image. But section 5.1 seems
> contradict that and says it could be cpio or IPS based.
>
> Alok
From a Virtual Machine standpoint, I think the cpio-based version would
be preferred. The references to IPS are because the existing networked
AI installs via IPS, and we were basing some assumptions off of that.
But, installing from a remote repository requires extra set-up to make
sure the VM can contact the repo. Granted, that set-up should be
straightforward. However, I thought that a reason for having a
media-based AI was so that one could do an automated installation onto
systems that don't necessarily have network access - in which case cpio
would make more sense, yes?
