jan damborsky wrote:
> Hi Karen, Jean,
>
> wonderful job ! Thanks !
>
> Since it is likely we will be adding stuff to the AI image
> (installer pieces, support for service discovery, downloading
> and mounting AI archives, test drivers, ...),
> I would like to ask, what the prerequisites are in order to be
> able to reproduce the steps for creating AI image.
> I could think about following pieces (I assume there might be more :-)
>
> * IPS repo
>  - ipkg.sfbay:29048 (available only internally)
>
> * modified DC running on Sparc machine
>  - Are DC diffs available for taking a look or could
>    we pick up modified version ?
>
> * AI manifest
>  - /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai_x86_image_sparc.xml (available 
> only internally)
>
> Thank you,
> Jan
>
>
> Karen Tung wrote:
>> Jean and I are delighted to report that we are finally
>> able to produce an AI image that can boot successfully
>> into live-fs-root, and got to the line where it
>> says "Couldn't determine source of automated install image".
>> We felt that the image is good enough for the AI team to use it
>> for their testing/development.
>>
>> This image is created entirely by our modifications to the DC.
>> The only thing that you still need to hack is that you need to
>> install the boot blocks by hand.  That  means, you need
>> to run the installboot command on the bootroot of the image
>> manually.  We will get that figured out and fixed next week.
>> You can find the image at:
>>
>> /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai-dec5/media/ai-dec5.iso
>>
>> In case you are interested, the manifest we used to create
>> this image is at:
>>
>> /net/line3-v480.sfbay/rpool/dc/ai_x86_image_sparc.xml
Jan,

Our current bits add a finalizer script that copies the "new" live-fs-root
from my workspace to the image. Obviously that won't stand long term but
until we can get it integrated into the repository it's there.

Jean
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Karen
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