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 typically from an out-of-date system.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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > openindiana-discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
