Hi Lonnie It is definetly possible. I wrote a automated installer [0] some time ago which would require such an ISO but never got to the point of making it. The main time consuming thing that I have stumbled upon is to split up SUNWcs which togheter with system/library forms about a 1G blob of base system.
You'll need to split this one up with manually copying over the files you want to the boot_archive. You can find some information about stripping the OS by looking at Peter Tribbles MVI project. [1] Greetings Till [0] https://git.wegmueller.it/OpenCloud/installer [1] https://github.com/ptribble/mvi On 22.09.19 16:22, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > 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 typically from an out-of-date system.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 > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
