[OmniOS-discuss] CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Kayak for ISO alpha

[Dan McDonald]

> On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> If there are brave people who wish to try various stages of the new ISO installer for OmniOS (it will also be the USB one... BSD Loader makes USB construction simple once you have an ISO created), please let me know.

Please download this:

	http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso

md5 (r151021-kayak.iso) = e1bfabf04b6e0ebcd980c6bc1834a19a
sha1 (r151021-kayak.iso) = ec8e587ea39705e7cd0f5bcc0b0c4b8cd597d21f
sha256 (r151021-kayak.iso) = 6eb045fe52dd0b3cdfcdaa8c905e63b1afd9b23e6585b1c706a4ed8be363aee6

And try it out.  PLEASE NOTE that menu item "1" isn't working yet, so to install OmniOS this way, you'll need to:

1.) Enter a shell using menu item "3".  Because of the way I did the installer, there's no job control on the tty.

2.) Use diskinfo(1M) to list the available disks.

2a.) (Optional) Use format(1M) or whatever other tools to partition if you feel you need to do this.

3.) Create a pool called "rpool".  BTW, you can use whole-disk GPT now, and that will be the new installer's default.  You can use mirrors, but you cannot use RAIDz.

4.) Exit the shell.

5.) Use menu item "2" to install.  You will get some questions, you can just hit RETURN to be quick, or answer them and do some customization.

6.) Reboot to your new disk.  It'll be the same image we have on http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/bloody/  It will boot via BSD Loader.

Thanks,
Dan