Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-09 Thread Lionel Cons
On 6 September 2016 at 19:14, Till Wegmüller wrote: > Hello fellow Community > > So i have been working with netboot today and would like to give you a > rundown of what works/what not and would like to ask you how you see this > project going forward. > > So the basic idea was that Users new to O

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-09 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hi Adam On 09.09.2016 09:57, Adam Števko wrote: Do you know why it takes so long? Do you know if the problem is IO bound and a SSD might help speed this up? Or is something else? Well it builds more than what i need for one. Everytime distro_const runs it runs pkg/mkboot_archive/mk_solaris.z

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-09 Thread Adam Števko
Hi Till, > On 06 Sep 2016, at 19:14, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > Due to the fact that distro constructor takes 2+ hours to build an iso on > every change and my need for some experimentation, I built some scripts based > on alhazred's Firefly Recovery Image, Jimklimov's make firefly from root an

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-08 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hey Alex thanks for the tips. Some tips: Would be nice to add dynamic boot_archive size calculation (populate image stage fails for me with “no space left on device”). Huh. In that case I still copy some junk to the Image that should not be there. Generally the Image should never grow past 30

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-08 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hi Gordon Yes. The goal is to have a boot_archive that can download the CD-Contents via web into RAM. Or make basic recovery tasks when Disk id's change etc. Like the original Firefly. but with extensions. Greetings Till On 08.09.2016 17:08, Gordon Ross wrote: Just to be clear, you're tryi

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-08 Thread Gordon Ross
Just to be clear, you're trying to netboot a mini-root image, right? (like the CD/ISO image, Not booting onto an NFS mounted root) On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Alexander wrote: > Hey Till, > good start! > >> On 06 Sep 2016, at 20:14, Till Wegmüller wrote: >> >> ... >> I would like to know wh

Re: [oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-08 Thread Alexander
Hey Till, good start! > On 06 Sep 2016, at 20:14, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > ... > I would like to know what you think about the scripts. How could I improve > them? What would you use them for? Does that need some change to the > script(e.g additional commandline option)? > Some tips: Would

[oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

2016-09-06 Thread Till Wegmüller
Hello fellow Community So i have been working with netboot today and would like to give you a rundown of what works/what not and would like to ask you how you see this project going forward. So the basic idea was that Users new to OI could use the service netboot.xyz to easily launch the ins