Bruce, Copying caiman-discuss so everyone can be included in this discussion. It's not clear what is going on here. I know you said the build had no errors, but can you send the detailed log anyway? You also might try breaking up the builds to do the just the studio tools. See if it breaks. It might give us a clue as to where the problem is.
Jean -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Need help with using Distribution Constructor Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:48:24 -0700 From: Bruce Rothermal <[email protected]> To: Jean.McCormack at Sun.COM, Jack.Schwartz at sun.com, Karen.Tung at Sun.COM Hi All I'm trying to figure out how to use the DC for creating an install image of a specific configured system. I keep having problems during the boot up. Everything else runs creating the iso and usb images with no errors. I ran the simple example provided on the OpenSolaris web site and everything ran fine, booted, etc. We want to take the basic system and include in the distro the studio and clustertools packages. We also would like to include certain directories which would contain our configuration scripts etc that we would like to have run at startup. For now I created a manifest file which includes: <pkg name="sunstudioexpress"/> <pkg name="clustertools_8.1"/> I've also include the line <base_include type="dir">export/home/hpcuser</base_include> (I've attached the entire manifest file) I then run /usr/bin/distro_const build ./slim_cd.xml Like I said it runs all the way through with no errors. I try both burning the resulting iso and use usb_copy for a flash drive. When I boot using these I get past the physical checks, get to grub menu and select the first default boot option. After a short while I get enter maintenance user and password or Ctrl D. It will not allow Ctrl D. I can log in as root but the system is not really their. For example doing a ls at this point provides no listing. Can you help me by first letting me know if distribution constructor is the right tool to be using (for Solaris we use a flash image of the installed system). If this is the right tool what am I doing wrong in setting up the manifest file. Are there intermediate steps that need to be done instead of running all the way through the entire process. Thanks for your help Bruce -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: slim_cd.xml Type: text/xml Size: 13752 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090121/463a93bd/attachment.xml>
