Hi Johan,
Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Karen Tung <Karen.Tung at sun.com > <mailto:Karen.Tung at sun.com>> 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 > > This sounds very interesting, but I don't have a clue what it is. The > fact that you talk a lot about booting, and have sent this to > caiman-discuss gives some hints. More hints in the responses... but > please explain to me (briefly and simply) what is AI and what is DC ? > Is that a capital i or a lower-case L? Both AI (Automated Installation project) and DC (Distribution Constructor project) are part of Caiman which is set of projects focused on creating a new OpenSolaris installation experience. The mission of Automated Installation project is to provide features to support completely 'hands off' installation. The Distribution Constructor project is building a set of GUI and command-line tools allowing users to build an install image from a package repository. The distribution constructor tools accept input from the user and process a set of repository packages into one or more media images which can be utilized to install an OpenSolaris distribution. You can find more details about Caiman as well as particular projects on following pages: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Constructor/ Thank you, Jan > > A number of people are excited about the value of this work. I am > personally excited about the fact that people are contributing to Open > Solaris even when I don't understand what they do :-) > > Thanx, > _J > > > > -- > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > Arthur C. Clarke > > My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
