[oi-dev] Netboot on OpenIndiana

[Till Wegmüller]

Hey Alex
thanks for the tips.


> Some tips:
> Would be nice to add dynamic boot_archive size calculation (populate image stage fails for me with “no space left on device”).
Huh. In that case I still copy some junk to the Image that should not be 
there. Generally the Image should never grow past 300M because we have 
to transport it uncompressed via network.

Could you send the output of find fom you image?
I would like to compare that with my image contents to see the difference.

> You probably would like to cleanup kernel and platform directories in boot_archive for  32-bit drivers (or add an option and produce separate 32 and 64 images if you like).

I yet don't know if i want one Image for each bitness or one for 32 and 
64 bit.
But it's definately on the todo.

> SMF repository probably will not be happy and it will try to run some stuff which is not exist in boot_archive, so you will need to modify smf database and may be some scripts.

Have you any docs that show how that is done?

I use the manifest-import with -f and -d to populate the Database from a 
directory. I could prepare a special manifest directory but would need 
to experiment a bit.

The thing that im currently unsure about is how do i deactivate or 
activate a service without using svcadm.

Greetings
Till