Johan Hartzenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Karen Tung <Karen.Tung at sun.com 
> <mailto:Karen.Tung at sun.com>> 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
> 
> This sounds very interesting, but I don't have a clue what it is.  The 
> fact that you talk a lot about booting, and have sent this to 
> caiman-discuss gives some hints.  More hints in the responses... but 
> please explain to me (briefly and simply) what is AI and what is DC ?  

For a little more background on DC, see:

http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/constructing_an_opensolaris_distro

Dave


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