Forgot to mention that this is the reason for my investigation in the
distribution constructor since I wondered if the slim_cd_x86.xml could be
further trimmed down to make something like this possible.

Cheers,
Lonnie


On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:18 AM Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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 typically from an out-of-date system.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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