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 >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
