Barbara, My apologies for not getting these to you sooner. RE: AI installer guide
The comments here address AI and SC sample manifests in section 3. example 3-1 The default units for the partition_size and slice_size are now megabytes they may be overridden with partition_size_units and slice_size_units, specifying "sectors", "gigabytes", "terabytes", as well as "megabytes" The partition_start_sector is optional and probably not appropriate for a basic example. If the partition_start_sector is missing, the new partition is placed at the first sector of the block of free space that fits the requested size the best (this is how slice creation works). The example is misleading, since it both creates a Solaris partition and expects an existing Solaris partition, since it uses target_device_use_solaris_partition. Suggest removing target_device_use_solaris_partition from the example. Also the description is slightly different from the actual behavior - it does not give the option to find a disk where Solaris is not defined (maybe this is a bug, but this is how it is presently coded). Example 3-4 " name="example3" <target_device_size>20GB</target_device_size> - units are not permitted here. This points out a deficiency, but at the moment, the units are only sectors (512 bytes), and this field may only contain a number. Example 3-5 - suggest you just drop partition_size and partition_start_sector and partition_type from the example and just use partition_number to delete the partition. partition_type is ignored for the delete partition action - only the partition_number or partition_offset_sector + partition_size are used, so please remove. partition_number is ignored for the create partition action, so please remove Try this: <ai_device_partitioning> <partition_action>delete</partition_action> <partition_start_sector>16065000</partition_start_sector> <partition_size>41943040</partition_size> </ai_device_partitioning> <ai_device_partitioning> <partition_action>create</partition_action> <partition_start_sector>16065000</partition_start_sector> <partition_size>41943040</partition_size> <partition_type>191</partition_type> </ai_device_partitioning> also with 3-5, the example sounds useful, but the current logic does not allow a change of partition type from Solaris to Solaris2 partitions while preserving slices. Perhaps this should be considered a deficiency or should be requested as an enhancement. For now, suggest either preserving slices or changing type from Solaris to Solaris2, but not both. Custom SC Manifest Files - unnamed example (perhaps example should have a name): userpass and rootpass are encrypted. Suggest using encrypted userpass "jack": <propval name="userpass" type="astring" value="9Nd/cwBcNWFZg"/> encrypted rootpass "opensolaris": <propval name="rootpass" type="astring" value="$5$VgppCOxA$ycFmYW4ObRRHhtsGEygDdexk5bugqgSiaSR9niNCouC"/> Suggest same changes for example 3-11 I'll continue to look at this document. Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or to discuss new or revised examples. William Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote: > Install gang, > > We'll take a look at, and make review assignments for, the alpha draft > of the AI documentation tomorrow during our team meetings. Docs > include 1) a new wiki "cover page" for all the install docs and 2) the > revised AI main document. > > We will not review installadm(1M) man page during the meeting. > > Docs are posted at: > > 1) New Install Docs Wiki > (This is pre-alpha, but the idea is that one wiki "cover" page will > have listing of major install topics (AI/DC/Snap/installer), sorted by > user role, with links to the content. So far, only a few topics are > listed, for only AI, with no links yet.) > > http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/Installation+Topic > > 2) AI main document - Alpha draft > (This is a major rewrite with alot of input from Ethan.) > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/AIinstall.pdf > > 3) installadm(1M) man page > (We'll need to confirm reviewers for this, but it's not posted today.) > > Barbara > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
