Thats great. I will take a look at. -Sanjay
Peter Tribble wrote: > One of the things I've been tinkering with for a while now is an > interactive jumpstart profile builder as part of my solview tool, > available from: > > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/solview.html > > The latest version (0.41) has a working - but very rudimentary - > capability of building jumpstart profiles. It's probably got more > bugs in it than your average rainforest, but it's actually quite > fun... > > To use, unpack and cd into the solview-0.41 directory. Run > solview with the profile subcommand and the path to a Solaris > media Product directory (that has got a .clustertoc file in it). > For example, I use: > > ./solview profile /export/install/nv70/Solaris_11/Product > > select a starting metacluster, and hit customize to move on. > > You can customize from a tree view (which includes te > clusters) or from a list of packages. To customize, select > something and then go to the Customize tab, and if it > can be added or deleted there'll be a button at the bottom > you can hit. (The checkboxes in the tree and list look like > they should be clickable but aren't yet. Worse, they don't > update properly, and neither does the state of the customize > tab.) It'll add dependencies automatically, which is sort > of the whole point. > > When you want to see what you've got, go to the output > tab and hit display. (It doesn't automatically update - sorry!) > > I find it quite fun to start with something like SUNWCrnet, add > the web browser, and see how many dependencies it pulls in. > > While it was originally written to make it easier for me to > create self-consistent jumpstart profiles without the usual > trial-and-error approach, I can see that something like > this might help produce a self-consistent set of packages > for slim install, and isn't that different from some sort of > distro constructor. > > Anyway, I hope that it's of some use, and I would be > interested to see what people think of it. > >
