On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, kristof wrote: > So far I have always been using opensolaris SXCE. The last year I have always > did flash based jumpstart installs. For this I created a "derived begin > script" that met all my requirements. This begin script removed all > partitions from the first 2 disks, then it installed the flar file on a > mirrored system disk (md device) > > With the "old" jumpstart technology I only had to maintain 1 set of config > files (begin/finish/rules etc). So this was great, It worked on almost all > our servers. (And we do have many different x86 hardware). We of cource > included some extra drivers (areca/LSI/HP srtorage drivers) > > Now I would like to do the same with the automated installer and opensolaris > 2008.11 b101a
Great to know that you're trying the automated installer out! > So I'm trying to setup a default manifest.xml file, but so far I'dont > succeed.The install always fails. (the service auto-installer goes in > maintenance) > > > So here is what I did: > > - First I created a new AI image , work like a charm. > > - Then I created a very basic manifest file, first I only specified > target_disk_size (since the first disk is often something else , one time > it's c0t0d0, another time it's c0d0, and another time it's c6t0d0 etc.). > > When I try to install with my basic manifest, the auto-installer service goes > in maintenance, and in the auto-installer service log file i see: > > no partition information found. > > - When I include the partition information I get: > > no manifest slice information found. These are mostly informational messages and don't actually point to a problem. > - When I in include the slice information, I get > > /lib/svc/method/auto-installer: line 137: 3019 Memory fault(coredump) > Automated installation failed - error 267 The installer should never dump core so I'll take a look at your manifest and if I can reproduce the core dump with 101b, I'll file a bug. > I have attached my current manifest file. > > I would like to setup a manifest file, with the following requirements: > > The auto-installer should: > > - Always use the first disk which is at least 20 GB The way the installer is currently implemented, if you specify target_device_size as sector equivalent of 20GB (41943040), it will pick the first disk with atleast that amount of space. > - Remove all partitions and slices found on this disk There isn't an easy way to specify this for 2008.11 > - create a 25 GB partition on this disk > - create 1 big slice on this partition The disk partitioning and slicing does not work reliably at this time. This work is being tracked as the following bug - http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4233 > - setup a zfs mirror in case 2 or more disks are found, again all partitions > and slices should be removed. Again, this isn't supported for 2008.11. This release of the automated installer is a preview and thus does not have some of the features you're looking for right now. Alok
