[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI installer

[Alexander Eremin]

In text-install iso this is /usr/bin/text-install

Alexander

> On 01 нояб. 2013 г., at 15:52, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>  Can someone please point me (in the live image programs/files/scripts
> or in the sources which make up an OI live image) where does the file
> installer per se begin? I do hope that it is a separately callable
> method or program (not strictly a private routine in Caiman), right? :)
> 
>  The interactive wizard we have now:
> 1) creates the rpool (optionally - in partitions which I've defined via
> parted) by wiping the given partition and making a slice table and an
> rpool with swap, dump and rpool/ROOT/openindiana datasets, and
> 2) then it mounts the rootfs dataset and copies files into it, and
> customizes the installed image with the new admin user, password, host
> name and networking info, etc.
> 
>  I would like to do the former steps myself (either manually or with
> some other scripted procedure), and use only the installer (filecopying
> and customization routine) on the mounted BE tree which I provide to
> it. This would permit custom layouts, coexistance with old rpool info
> (for upgrades of some antique systems), and so on, while the installed
> OS would be functionally equivalent to one created by the dumb wizard.
> 
>  As some may know, I have earlier documented a number of approaches
> for "Advanced manual installation" on the OI Wiki and in the issue
> tracker (#829). This is a relatively fragile manual process which does
> have its positive results, but is also easy to break (i.e. the newly
> installed system might be in a remotely inaccessible state after first
> boot due to some typo). So far the most reliable way was to let the
> existing installer do its job, reboot, and then create the layout I
> want in nearby datasets and rsync over the (customized) BE filesystems
> into the new tree. This method works but is not optimal for a number
> of cases (restricted space, desire to keep old rpool data, several
> reboots for the setup, etc.) I do hope to either automate my approach
> with scripts and/or expand the installer to use the provided rootfs
> instead of wiping the disk, and to make the process automated and
> repeatable with the interactive installation wizard(s).
> 
>  Also, I'm going over my notes to see how it applies to a recent OI
> (151a8) and found there are some discrepancies in the set of services
> enabled and working in the newly installed OS with automated and manual
> approaches, for example... and I can't easily find what I am doing
> *that* much differently by hand. There are indeed discrepancies with
> permissions on some /devices/* for example, and maybe with RBAC so
> that some services can't open some device nodes or real files ;-\
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> //Jim Klimov
> 
> 
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