If you do not use Distribution Constructor for building AI images
and you don't use Automated Installer, you can safely ignore this
message.
Fix for following bug was integrated:
4166 The automated installer hangs on a 1 GB system without swap
This fix takes advantage of split of SUNWgui-install package
(see bugs 5468, 5657 for details) and reduces the content of AI image.
Size of AI images is reduced by ~45%.
This fix affects
[1] Distribution Constructor
* AI DC manifests ai_x86_image.xml, ai_sparc_image.xml
* ai_generic_live.xml file
[2] AI server
* additional option min_mem64=1536 is added to menu.lst file for client
with less than 1.5GB to be booted in 32-bit mode.
Reduced AI image along with taking advantage of min_mem64 option allows
automated installation on x86 machines with 1GB of available memory (not
shared with graphic controller) without need to create swap device during
installation (see bug 4166 for details).
In order to take advantage of this fix, you need to update
SUNWdistro-constructor
package on your build system and SUNWinstalladm-tools package on your AI server
(so that installation on 1GB x86 machines is done in 32-bit mode).
Known issues:
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Currently, both AI as well as LiveCD share the same set of steps
as far as creating and configuring SMF repository is concerned -
they are implemented by mkrepo script. Since some of services
are not present in reduced AI image, Distribution Constructor
will display following warning messages when building reduced AI image:
...
==== br-config: Boot root configuration
Configuring bootroot...
Preloading SMF repository...
Loading smf(5) service descriptions:
Loaded 120 smf(5) service descriptions
svccfg: Pattern 'application/font/fc-cache' doesn't match any instances or
services
svccfg: Pattern 'system/dbus' doesn't match any instances or services
svccfg: Pattern 'application/opengl/ogl-select' doesn't match any instances or
services
svccfg: Pattern 'application/graphical-login/gdm' doesn't match any instances
or services
Creating additional symlinks in ramdisk ...
==== ai-br-config: Auto Install boot root configuration
...
Those doesn't prevent building AI image and will be addressed
when mkrepo script will be redesigned.
If there are any questions, please send them to caiman-discuss.
Thank you,
Jan
