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
