Hi everyone.
I needed to put together a system running OpenSolaris build 108 for
Niveditha, but hit the corruption issue (6804), so I decided to install
106 and update to 108.
I've finally successfully installed build 106 on SPARC from the /dev
repo (currently at 108).
After taking Sundar's help with DHCP issues, I got the install to start.
(Thanks, Sundar!) At this point, AI installs were failing with:
Transfer mod: pkg missing
Then I tried installing the four packages or incorporations (with
version strings attached) manually. It bombed on entire, which I did last.
Dave Comay is da' repo man! He dished up the secret sauce to get me
working. I'm publicizing this in case anyone else needs to install a
non-latest version from a repo.
Package order is important. In /var/ai/4*/AI_data/default.xml on the
server, I have packages in the following order:
entire at 0.5.11-0.<build>
SUNWcsd
SUNWcs
slim_install at 0.1-0.<build>
The SUNW... packages don't specify a version, because "entire" contains
metadata which sets that up for them. slim_install is last. Dave says
he'll be working on being able to remove the versioning from the
slim_install package specification here soon.
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Next, I needed to update to 108. In doing pkg image-update, I
encountered bug 5221, a beadm issue which has been fixed (but was not in
106). A blank /rpool/boot/menu.lst file was created and the
image-update worked. Thanks to Evan Layton for his help!
The system is now running OpenSolaris 108 and I have turned it over to
Niveditha!
Thanks,
Jack
