Dennis Clarke wrote: >> William Pursell wrote: >> >>> On 8/29/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>>> William Pursell wrote: >>>> >>>>> Where can I find the list of files which are copied to the miniroot >>>>> image? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> There isn't a simple list. Presently, a set of packages are added, and >>>> then a bunch of unused portions of the resulting file system are >>>> removed. >>>> >>> Which tool or script does creates the miniroot? >>> >>> >> It's not shipped and hasn't been open-sourced. >> >> For what you say you want to do, you can use the root_archive command to >> unpack the existing one, make your modifications, and repack it. >> > > WARNING : blatant rant follows > > I don't know what that script does but anytime I try to use it I have to be > running either CDE or a DEC Terminal on the ttya port because all ram seems > to get sucked into a black hole. Eventually the mouse locks up if I try to > run CDE but the command completes. It is fascinating to watch and it works > but man oh man does it thrash. > > It does take a bit of time. Basically what the script does is take the unpacked miniroot, create a bunch of gzip'd cpio archives and then creates symlinks to the places where the files originally lived to /tmp/root, a writeable area when the miniroot is booted.
I have not seen it take my system down with Solaris Nevada. sarah *** > on S10u3 at least. > > - > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
