Thanks Andreas,

You were spot on and looks like I missed that step before going forward.

I have been playing around with a number of ideas from other distributions
which perhaps might be applicable to OpenIndiana.   One, in particular,
that I really like is from Debian in which they have the Debian-Installer
(GTK) mini.iso.  This mini.iso is ram-based LiveCD that is only about 70 MB
and basically is a netinst that has the core kernel, xrog (xserver), and
the GTK graphical install script. I have actually built it from scratch and
it was not too difficult but think that it could work for OI as well since
more people might like to try OI if is was much smaller to test out.

For me, this would be useful since it would be really just the core OI
without all of the applications that could be installed as desired at a
later time as well.

Any thoughts on this?
Cheers,
Lonnie

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 3:11 AM Andreas Wacknitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> You didn't update your system before you started, did you?
> OI forces consistency of all packages. Messages like you got are
> typically from an out-of-date system.
> So, update your system first:
> pfexec pkg update -v
> And then reboot:
> pfexec init 6
>
> After that your 3rd step should work.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
> Am 22.09.19 um 01:04 schrieb Lonnie Cumberland:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > First of all, Happy weekend !   Its been a long week, at least for me.
> >
> > I installed OI in a VM to work with it a bit and was trying to follow the
> > "Using distribution constructor" (
> > https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/distribution-constructor/)
> >
> > but am not able to install the distribution-constructor package for some
> > reason.
> >
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > root@openindiana:~/distro-const# pfexec pkg install
> > install/distribution-constructor
> > Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
> > pkg install: No matching version of install/distribution-constructor can
> be
> > installed:
> >   Reject:  pkg://
> > openindiana.org/install/[email protected]
> >              to
> >            pkg://
> > openindiana.org/install/[email protected]
> >   Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation
> > consolidation/install/[email protected]
> >   Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation
> > consolidation/userland/[email protected]
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I followed:
> >
> > mkdir distro-const
> > cd distro-const
> > pfexec pkg install install/distribution-constructor
> > cp /usr/share/distro_const/slim_cd/slim_cd_x86.xml .
> > pfexec distro_const build slim_cd_x86.xml
> >
> > but cannot get past the 3rd step.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
> > Cheers,
> > Lonnie
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