[brandz-discuss] brandz zone install: first impressions

[Dan Price]

Hi guys-- in my usual way (i.e. like a drunken sailor) I've stumbled
through getting BrandZ up and working on my test box and hit a few
rough edges.  Here are some experiences:

I downloaded the Centos image here:

http://mirror.stanford.edu/yum/pub/centos/3.7/isos/i386/CentOS-3.7-i386-binDVD.iso

This seems to be a DVD ISO.  I stuck it in my home directory and
pointed the BrandZ installer at it:

        zoneadm -z tzonelx install -d /home/dp/CentOS-3.7-i386-binDVD.iso

That didn't work:

        '/home/dp/CentOS-3.7-i386-binDVD.iso': unknown type of file.
        $ echo $?
        0


I think it'd be nice to rewrite this message:

installation failed: /home/dp/CentOS-3.7-i386-binDVD.iso is of an unknown type

And to have the install fail with non-zero exit status.  Eventually I
got to this error message:

> Linux archives can be in one of several forms:
> 
> + A compressed tar archive
> + A set of CD-ROM or DVD discs
> + A group of ISO images
> 
> The install will attempt to use the default system
> removable disc device if <archive dir> is not
> specified.
> 
> <cluster> specifies which package cluster you wish
> to install. The desktop cluster will be installed
> by default.
> 
> The available clusters are:
>     core
>     server
>     desktop
>     development
>     all
> 
> Each cluster includes all of the clusters preceding
> it. So, 'server' includes 'core', 'desktop' includes
> 'core' and 'server', and so on.

Could this be formatted to 80 columns please?

Next I tried:

zoneadm -z tzonelx install -d /home/dp

This basically never finished--- I got no feedback, but when I trussed
it, I determined that it was off recursively walking my home directory
trying to lofi mount every file.

Eventually I gave up with this ISO and downloaded the one from
opensolaris.org.  That installed without incident.

Thanks,

        -dp

-- 
Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp