jan damborsky wrote: > Hi Karen, Jean, > > wonderful job ! Thanks ! > > Since it is likely we will be adding stuff to the AI image > (installer pieces, support for service discovery, downloading > and mounting AI archives, test drivers, ...), > I would like to ask, what the prerequisites are in order to be > able to reproduce the steps for creating AI image. > I could think about following pieces (I assume there might be more :-) > > * IPS repo > - ipkg.sfbay:29048 (available only internally) > > * modified DC running on Sparc machine > - Are DC diffs available for taking a look or could > we pick up modified version ? Give me today to get the changes in some sort of order for people to look at. I'd eventually like to get the installboot stuff into DC. First pass won't have that since we need to decide architecturally how to do so.
Jean > > * AI manifest > - /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai_x86_image_sparc.xml (available > only internally) > > Thank you, > Jan > > > Karen Tung wrote: >> Jean and I are delighted to report that we are finally >> able to produce an AI image that can boot successfully >> into live-fs-root, and got to the line where it >> says "Couldn't determine source of automated install image". >> We felt that the image is good enough for the AI team to use it >> for their testing/development. >> >> This image is created entirely by our modifications to the DC. >> The only thing that you still need to hack is that you need to >> install the boot blocks by hand. That means, you need >> to run the installboot command on the bootroot of the image >> manually. We will get that figured out and fixed next week. >> You can find the image at: >> >> /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai-dec5/media/ai-dec5.iso >> >> In case you are interested, the manifest we used to create >> this image is at: >> >> /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai_x86_image_sparc.xml >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Karen >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
