Thanks Paul for the explanation. You are always there for any help I needed.
Does anybody from caiman group has any other suggestions especially the second question where I am trying to install sparc opensolaris on SAN using the same manifest file I used to install OS? Any specific procedure for sparc? Any help is appreciated Thanks Abdel Jalal ________________________________ From: Paul.Neary at Sun.COM [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:00 AM To: Jalal, Abdel Cc: pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org; Bart Smaalders; Alan Steinberg Subject: Re: [pkg-discuss] SUNWcs missing from repo? Abdel, The default partition chosen by AI (based on existing Solaris partitions) worked for me with the few systems I'm using. I did have problems with the default not working for a X4500 which required me to explicitly specify a partition using <ai_target_device>. Also, the disk target labelling conventions are not necessarily the same between Solaris and Opensolaris. Other than using <ai_target_device> I don't have anything else to suggest. You might have better luck though with this question on the caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org<mailto:caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org> which related specifically to the AI installer. -paul On 07/27/09 17:39, Jalal, Abdel wrote: Paul, Sorry to bug you again but I have a couple questions: 1- Installation fails if AI doesn't find a Solaris partition. If that is the case, then what if we have a new server or an old one that never had Solaris installed in it before? 2- I tried to install sparc on LUN on a storage array but it failed - see attached file Note: The HBA bios is enabled and it and emlx - I am trying to install on LUN 0 {0} ok probe-scsi-all /pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 9/emlx at 0,1 Device PortID 610300 WWPN 201400a0b829b1fe LUN 0 Disk ENGENIO INF-01-00 0750 LUN 7 Disk ENGENIO Universal Xport 0750 Device PortID 610d00 WWPN 201500a0b829b1fe LUN 0 Disk ENGENIO INF-01-00 0750 LUN 7 Disk ENGENIO Universal Xport 0750 /pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 9/emlx at 0 Cannot Init Link. /pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 8/emlx at 0 Device PortID 610300 WWPN 201400a0b829b1fe LUN 0 Disk ENGENIO INF-01-00 0750 LUN 7 Disk ENGENIO Universal Xport 0750 Device PortID 610d00 WWPN 201500a0b829b1fe LUN 0 Disk ENGENIO INF-01-00 0750 LUN 7 Disk ENGENIO Universal Xport 0750 /pci at 7c0/pci at 0/pci at 1/pci at 0,2/LSILogic,sas at 2 MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.06.00.00 Any advice? Thanks Abdel Jalal -----Original Message----- From: Jalal, Abdel Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:07 PM To: 'Bart Smaalders' Cc: Paul.Neary at Sun.COM<mailto:Paul.Neary at Sun.COM>; Alan Steinberg; pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org<mailto:pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org>; Le, Janey Subject: RE: [pkg-discuss] SUNWcs missing from repo? Bart, I have attached two installation logs. The first one, install_log_1.txt, is the one that took too long because I had the FC cables attached to the client and to a switch (none of the ports belong to an active zone). The packages that are added to the default pkgs are SUNWiscsitgt and SUNWiscsi. The second one, install_log_2.txt, is when I unplugged the cables, it took about 53 min to finish pkg installation and with an extra package SUNWscp added to the previous ones. The repo I am using is the default one pkg.opensolaris.org/release -- no mirroring has been setup yet -- I know that the AI will scan all the devices and chooses the first one that meets the requirements but I did not have any other devices mapped to the client other than the internal ones. The question is why it took too long ( around 3 hrs to finish pkg installation) whereas the second one took only 53 min? Thanks Abdel Jalal -----Original Message----- From: Bart Smaalders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:52 PM To: Jalal, Abdel Cc: Paul.Neary at Sun.COM<mailto:Paul.Neary at Sun.COM>; Alan Steinberg; pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org<mailto:pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org>; Le, Janey Subject: Re: [pkg-discuss] SUNWcs missing from repo? Jalal, Abdel wrote: It works now but it took very long to finish the installation. I wonder if it's a network problem or client issue Well, to make it easier of us to guess you might describe: 1) how long is very long? 2) how many packages you are installing? 3) where your client is wrt where the repo is? - Bart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090728/582328de/attachment.html>
